Mayson LaPray

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One of Carlile’s more pugnacious shopmen was Humphrey Boyle, who was tried in the Old Bailey in 1822 for selling Paine’s blasphemous works and another pamphlet that characterized the Bible as obscene.
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
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