The Death Throes of Free Speech in the United Kingdom

I When the cleric Robert Braybrooke, newly come from the sleepy deanery of Salisbury, began his tenure as Bishop of London on Jan. 5, 1382, the embers of rebellion were still smoldering in the Kingdom of England. The Peasants’ Revolt had been suppressed a few months earlier, but only after the rebellious villains... read full story

"not only men, women also, not on common days alone but especially on Festivals, expose their wares, as it were, in a public market, buy and sell without reverence for the holy place."