It was from the deputy-lieutenants, justices, and grand jurors of Kent, desiring that the house would turn their loyal addresses into a bill of supply and other matter.
The petition was voted insolent and seditious, and they were ordered into the custody of the serjeant-at-arms and then sent as prisoners to the Gatehouse, where they remained till the end of the session.
[1] He had been assaulted at Windsor Castle in July 1703, by Sir Jacob Banks in particular, on the occasion of Colepeper's delivering a petition for Daniel Defoe, who was imprisoned.
[2] After a trial before Lord-justice Sir John Holt, 14 February 1704, three persons were fined for attempts to do him injury: the friends of Rooke, named Denew, Merriam, and Britton.
John Brandreth, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands, published by Richard Savage, son of Earl Rivers, 1726.