2.08.2008

Gordon Riots

"Susannah [Clark] remained in the area muttering imprecations for two or three hours until the same or another party of rioters passed by. She insisted that they follow her. Beaver, she howled, was a secret papist; but Beaver showed the leader of the rowdies Stackhouse’s History of the Holy Bible and other Protestant books, and the defenders of Protestantism were satisfied."

from Eugene Charlton Black. The Association: British Extraparliamentary Political Organization 1769-1793. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1963. 165.


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