The report of the proceedings of the Court of King's bench, in the Guildhall, London, on the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th days of October : being the mock trials of Richard Carlile, for alledged blasphemous libels, in publishing Thomas Paine's theological works and Elihu Palmer's Principles of nature, before Lord Chief Justice Abbott, and special juries

An account of the proceedings of the first day only (Oct. 12, 1819) dealing wholly with the information against Carlile for publishing the Age of reason, which work, together with Paine's Examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ (published by Carlile as The age of reason, part the third) was read in court by Carlile, interspersed with comments, and thus printed in the present report (p. 38-156 and 157-202)