(4.) The same year, John Frost, Esq., "a gentleman" and attorney, when slightly intoxicated after dinner, and provoked by others, said, "I am for equality. I see no reason why any man should not be upon a footing with another; it is every man's birthright." And when asked if he would have no king, he answered, "Yes, no king; the constitution of this country is a bad one." This took place in a random talk at a tavern in London. He was indicted as a person of a "depraved, impious, and disquiet mind, and of a seditious disposition, and contriving, practising, and maliciously, turbulently, and seditiously intending the peace and common tranquillity of our lord the king and his laws to disturb," "to the evil example of all others in like case offending." He was sentenced to six months in Newgate, and one hour in the pillory! He must find sureties for good behavior for five years, himself in L500, two others in L100 each, be imprisoned until the sureties were found, and be struck from the list of attornies![132] [Footnote 132: 22 St. Tr. 471.] (5.) Rev. William Winterbotham, the same year, in two sermons, exposed some of the evils in the constitution and administration of England, and for that was fined L200, and sentenced to jail for four years,--a good deal more than $300 and twelve months' imprisonment.[133] [Footnote 133: Ibid. 823.] (6.) The same year, Thomas Briellat, a London pump-maker, in a private conversation said, "A reformation cannot be effected without a revolution; we have no occasion for kings; there never will be any good time until all kings are abolished from the face of the earth; it is my wish that there were no kings at all." "I wish the French would land 500,000 men to fight the government party." He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to a fine of L100, and sent to jail for a year.[134] [Footnote 134: Ib. 909.] (7.) Richard Phillips, afterwards Sheriff of London, was sent to jail for eighteen months for selling Paine's Rights of Man; for the same offence two other booksellers were fined and sent to Newgate _for four years_! A surgeon and a physician were sent to Newgate for two years for having "_seditious libels in their possession_." Thirteen persons were indicted at once.[135] [Footnote 135: Ibid. 471. Wade, Brit. Hist. (1847), 582, _et seq._]