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Hone was accused of blasphemous and seditious libel for having printed and published three liturgical parodies in the early months of that year. These were <jats:italic>The Late John Wilkes\u2019s Catechism of a Ministerial Member<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>The Political Litany, Diligently Revised<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>The Sinecurist\u2019s Creed, or Belief<\/jats:italic>. He conducted his own defence and, against the odds, was acquitted in all three trials. On January 23, 1818, Hone published the narrated transcripts of the trials. The present essay analyses and interprets those transcripts, highlighting Hone\u2019s eloquence, his de-sacralisation of court ritual, and, most important, the strategic use of satire as a legitimate method of political criticism and as an index of the freedom of the press. The Conclusion focuses on the political and cultural significance of Hone\u2019s rebuttal performance and claims his long-standing right to our attention.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1515\/culture-2020-0129","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,23]],"date-time":"2021-12-23T23:30:04Z","timestamp":1640302204000},"page":"324-335","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["\u201cThrice the brindled cat hath mew\u2019d\u201d\u2009\u2013\u2009The Three Trials of William Hone"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"5","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3664-2764","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Georgina","family":"Abreu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CEHUM\u2009\u2013\u2009Centre for the Study of the Humanities, Institute of Arts and Human Sciences, University of Minho , Campus de Gualtar , 4710-057 Braga , Portugal"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024013111412683595_j_culture-2020-0129_ref_001","unstructured":"Blackstone, William. 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