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| July 16, 1703 |
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| Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) |
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Daniel Defoe's "Hymn to the Pillory"
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1703 Daniel Defoe began to serve a three-day sentence in the pillory at Charing Cross (Trafalgar Square), part of his punishment for having written the "seditious libel" of The Shortest Way with Dissenters. This satiric pamphlet had suggested that instead of passing laws against all religious Dissenters -- Protestant "Nonconformists," such as Defoe -- the quicker, cleaner solution would be to just kill them. Defoe's proposal was taken seriously, if not embraced, by many of the Anglican Tories in office; when everyone realized that it was a put-on, and that the anonymous author was Defoe, they flushed him from his hiding spot and took revenge for their embarrassment: a hefty fine, time in Newgate Prison, three sessions in the pillory ... FULL STORY »
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