Essay Are juries still willing to do their duty? Palestine Action is putting it to the test

On August 14, 1670, a 25-year-old man stood up in Gracechurch Street, in the City of London between Eastcheap and Bishopsgate, and began preaching to a crowd in defiance of the law. The man, William Penn, was a Quaker, and his words were a challenge to the Church of England – so much so that he and his fellow preacher William Mead were arrested for sedition under warrants signed by the Lord Mayor.