CHAPTER 4
BOOK 6: Kennington Common
The Trial of the Manchester Rebels
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An interval of some months being allowed to elapse, we come to a very melancholy period of our story.
The unfortunate prisoners, who had languished during the whole time in Newgate, were ordered to prepare for their trial, which was intended to take place in the Court House at St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark, before Lord Chief Justice Lee, Lord Chief Justice Willes, Justice Wright, Justice Dennison, Justice Foster, Baron Reynolds, Baron Clive, and other commissioners specially appointed for the purpose.