49/104 He had received, in payment or otherwise, from some colporteur, two copies of _Christianity Unveiled_, and one of them he had sold to his master. The master informs against him. The colporteur, his wife, and his apprentice, are all three arrested, and they have just been pilloried, whipped, and branded, and the apprentice condemned to nine years of the galleys, the colporteur to five years, and the woman to the hospital for life.... Do you see the meaning of this judgment? If I buy more than one copy, I am declared to be encouraging unlawful trading, and exposed to a frightful prosecution. |