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    PETER ANNET was indicted in the court of King's bench, at Westminster, for being the author of divers blasphemous remarks on the five books of Moses. He was sentenced to be imprisoned one month in newgate, and within that time to stand twice in and upon the pillory, once at Charing Cross and once at the Royal Exchange. A year of hard labour was to be found for his good behaviour during the remainder of his life.

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    PETER ANNET was indicted in the court of King's bench, at Westminster, for being the author of divers blasphemous remarks on the five books of Moses. He was sentenced to be imprisoned one month in newgate, and within that time to stand twice in and upon the pillory, once at Charing Cross and once at the Royal Exchange. A year of hard labour was to be found for his good behaviour during the remainder of his life.

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    Peter Annet

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    PETER ANNET was indicted in the court of King's bench, at Westminster, for being the author of divers blasphemous remarks on the five books of Moses. He was sentenced to be imprisoned one month in newgate, and within that time to stand twice in and upon the pillory, once at Charing Cross and once at the Royal Exchange. A year of hard labour was to be found for his good behaviour during the remainder of his life.

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    Religious Intolerance The awful case of Septuaganarian

    Peter Annet
    1762

    PETER ANNET was Convicted and pilloried for Blaspheming, in Michlmas Term, 1762 PETER ANNET was a deist, aged upwards of seventy years, who was indicted in the Court of King's Bench, at Westminster, London, England in 1762, for being the author of divers blasphemous remarks on the five books of Moses. The charge being fully proved, he was sentenced to be imprisoned one month in Newgate, and within that time to stand twice in and upon the pillory, once at Charing Cross and once at the Royal Exchange; to pay a fine to the King of six shillings and eightpence; then to be sent to Bridewell and kept to hard labour one year, and at the expiration thereof to find securities for his good behaviour during the remainder of his life, himself in one hundred pounds, and the sureties in fifty pounds each. God keep us all safe from such bigots as those narrow-minded Pharisees that arraigned, charged, condemned, and sentenced a man for speaking his mind.

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