Download or read book The First Trial of William Hone, on an Ex-officio Information written by William Hone and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hone was tried for profane libel for publishing a political parody of the Anglican Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer. Hone readapted John Wilkes' eighteenth century manuscript. Cf. M. Wood, Radical satire and print culture, 1790-1822, pp. 114-121, 272-290.