[1794] - Godwin publishes ‘Cursory Strictures’ in the Morning Chronicle, leading to acquittal of some defendants in the treason trials

Useful Links and Further Reading

• Anarchy Archives, ‘Cursory Strictures on the Charge Delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre to the Grand Jury, October 2, 1794’,
  http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/godwin/cursory.html
• The History Guide, ‘An Uneasy Affair: William Godwin and English Radicalism, 1793–1797’,
  http://www.historyguide.org/thesis/chapter3.html
• John Barrell, Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793–1796 (Oxford, 2000)
• David O’Shaughnessy, ‘A Cursory Consideration of William Godwin’, Literature Compass, 2.1 (2005)