...he aims at is to substitute some milder form of death, thus virtually conceding the principle of persecution for opinions in all its extent. In 1579, W. Hamont, a plough-wright, of Hetherset, near Norwich , underwent the same frightful sentence. The heretical opinions laid to his charge, as reported by Mr. Locke, are evidently such a distortion and exaggeration of Unitarianism as might be expected f...