Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
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April 1794: Thomas Walker, leading Manchester cotton...
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April 1794
Thomas Walker
, leading Manchester cotton merchant and founder of the Constitutional Society
there, was acquitted on a trumped-up charge of conspiring to subvert the constitution.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.