On this day, June 1, in 1660, American colonist Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston for violating Massachusetts Bay Colony law by preaching Quakerism. Leader of California charity arrested for defrauding ...
LIBRARIANS, COLLECTORS and preservers of the written word since Aristotle have their own obsessions, even as they serve ours-papyrus scrolls, 18th-century pleasure parks, penny dreadfuls. The list is ...
Disembarking at Boston in 1656, Mary Fisher, “a religious maiden,” and her companion Ann Austin, Quakers, were welcomed by hangman, by gaoler. The hangman made a public bonfire of all books found in ...
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