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ciety for constitutional information, after a special meeting on the seventh of June, raised a hundred pounds, to be applied, said they, to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the king's troops at Lexington and Concord. Other sums were added; and an account of what had been done was laid before the world by Home Tooke in the Public Advertiser. The publication raised an implacable spirit of revenge. Three printers were fined in consequence one hundred pounds each; and Home was pursued unrelentingly by Thurlow, till in a later year he was convicted be- Chap. Xxxiii} 1775. June. fore Lord Mansfield of a libel, and sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred pounds and to be imprisoned twelve months. Thurlow even asked the judge to punish him with the pillory. It was Hutchinson, whose false information had