Marching north with 36, 000 men he entered Rome and forced Henry to retire, but a short-lived rebellion or seditious tumult ( émeute ) of the citizens led to a three days ' sack of the city ( May 1084 ), after which Guiscard escorted the pope to Rome.

The play concerns the " seditious knight " Sir Timothy Treat-all and his Tory nephew Tom Wilding both vying for the affections of Charlot, the eponymous city ( London ) heiress.

Along with other prominent labour organizers in the city, Armstrong was brought to trial after the strike's suppression on charges of seditious conspiracy.

* 1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.

Just as the second volume was completed accusations arose, regarding seditious content, concerning the editor's entries on religion and natural law.

When the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and six other bishops ( the Seven Bishops ) wrote to James asking him to reconsider his policies, they were arrested on charges of seditious libel, but at trial they were acquitted to the cheers of the London crowd.

An example is the branding on both cheeks of William Prynne in 1637 for seditious libel.

* August 14 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is not acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.

Two days later, on 24 August 1973, President Allende responded, characterising the Congress's declaration as destined to damage the country ’ s prestige abroad and create internal confusion, predicting It will facilitate the seditious intention of certain sectors.

" Indeed, the act was passed by Parliament on 21 May, the same day as a royal proclamation against seditious writings was issued, and more libel cases would be brought by the government in the following two years than had been in all the preceding years of the eighteenth century.

At length it was resolved to proceed on a capital charge of " devising and circulating seditious books.

Wilkes was charged with seditious libel over attacks on George III's speech endorsing the Paris Peace Treaty of 1763 at the opening of Parliament on 23 April 1763.

Parliament was quick to vote on a measure that did not protect MPs from arrest for the writing and publishing of seditious libel.

He was tried and found guilty in absentia of obscene libel and seditious libel, and was declared an outlaw on 19 January 1764.

The grand jury were called on to find against him for " seditious libels ," and also against O ' Brien and Meagher for seditious speeches.

" On 5 December he was again arrested ; and the following March was tried, together with Barrowe, and condemned to death on a charge of " devising and circulating seditious books.

At the proposal of Chief-justice John Finch he was also to be branded on the cheeks with the letters S. L., signifying ' seditious libeller '.

Suspects could now be interned under DORA 14B on warrants signed by the Chief Secretary and French pressed Macpherson, who had been shocked by the attempted assassination, to intern as many as possible, although he advised against interning politicians like Arthur Griffith “ simply for making seditious speeches ”.

The campaign attracted the attention of governments and on February 12, 1918 the book was banned by the Canadian government for what a Winnipeg newspaper described as " seditious and antiwar statements " On February 24 in Los Angeles Rutherford gave a talk entitled " The World Has Ended — Millions Now Living May Never Die " ( subsequent talks in the series were renamed, " Millions Now Living Will Never Die ") in which he attacked the clergy, declaring: " As a class, according to the Scriptures, the clergymen are the most reprehensible men on earth for the great war that is now afflicting mankind.

Cohn-Bendit's political opponents took advantage of his German passport and had him expelled from Saint-Nazaire to Germany on 22 May as a " seditious alien ".

He was imprisoned for many years by the U. S. Federal Government, on multiple occasions, in both the United States and Puerto Rico, on charges that included seditious conspiracy.

Over 25 jurisdictions place limits on certain speech and ban racist, blasphemous, politically subversive, libelous or slanderous, seditious, or inflammatory material that tends to incite hate crimes.

Various southern governmental bodies, meanwhile, labeled the Appeal seditious and imposed harsh penalties on those who circulated it.

In March 2007, Mark Paul Deason, the manager of a tavern near the University of Otago, was charged with seditious intent although he was later granted diversion when he pleaded guilty to publishing a document which encourages public disorder Deason ran a promotion for his tavern that offered one litre of beer for one litre of petrol.

On March 18, 1922, he was imprisoned for six years for publishing seditious materials.

As has happened with ironic writings before and since, this pamphlet was widely misunderstood but eventually its author was prosecuted for seditious libel and was sentenced to be pilloried, fined 200 marks and detained at the Queen's pleasure.

* 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.

The paper eventually attracted the attention of the Prussian government censors, who checked every issue for potentially seditious material before it could be printed.

His work The principles of government ; in a dialogue between a scholar and a peasant: printed and distributed gratis by the Society for Constitutional Information, 1783 was the subject of a trial for seditious libel after it was reprinted by his brother-in-law William Shipley.

Like Williams, he was prosecuted for seditious libel and blasphemous libel.

Then there was the attempted arrest of John Wilkes for seditious libel against the King in the notorious issue No. 45 of his The North Briton in early 1763.

* January 19 – John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons of Great Britain for seditious libel.

* July 29 – July 31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory, then imprisoned for four months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet ( his release is granted in mid-November ).

The publisher of the New York Journal, John Peter Zenger, wrote an account of the election and was arrested and tried for seditious libel.

Widespread rumors of Napoleon's return from St. Helena and Napoleon as an inspiration for patriotism, individual and collective liberties, and political mobilization manifested themselves in seditious materials, notably displaying the tricolor and rosettes, and subversive activities celebrating anniversaries of Napoleon's life and reign and disrupting royal celebrations, and demonstrated the prevailing and successful goal of the varied supporters of Napoleon to constantly destabilize the Bourbon regime.

He was conspicuous in the Whiskey Insurrection and having been prominent in some of the meetings of the insurgents, his arrest was ordered but in the meantime before any action could be taken he appeared November 6, 1794, before Thomas McKean, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and in the presence of William Bradford, Attorney General of the United States, voluntarily entered into recognizance to the United States for his appearance before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States at the next special session of the Circuit Court held for the district of Pennsylvania " then and there to answer such charges of treasonable and seditious practices and such other matters of misdemeanor as shall be alleged against him in behalf of the United States and that he will not depart that court without license.

When the assembly fined Dionysius for his seditious language, Philistus stepped in to pay Dionysius ' fines, with the promise to continue paying for them so long as the council saw fit to issue them.

In the Star Chamber Coventry was one of John Lilburne's judges in 1637, but he generally showed conspicuous moderation, inclining to leniency in the cases of Richard Chambers in 1629 for seditious speeches, and of Henry Sherfield in 1632 for breaking painted glass in a church.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

He was charged with seditious libel.

Group portrait of the Seven Bishops whom James ordered imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1688, but who were acquitted of charges of seditious libel.

Volksverhetzung is punishable in Germany even if committed abroad and even if committed by non-German citizens, if only the incitement of hatred takes effect within German territory, e. g. the seditious sentiment was expressed in German writ or speech and made accessible in Germany ( German criminal code's Principle of Ubiquity, Section 9 § 1 Alt.

This angered the government, causing the police to raid the school in 1832, when they discovered what they labelled seditious literature that espoused political liberalism being distributed amongst the students.

A rumor had it that a " seditious party " of New York legislators had opened communication with the Viceroy of Canada.

For certain criminal charges of libel, such as seditious libel, the truth or falsity of the statements was immaterial, as such laws were intended to maintain public support of the government and the truth of the statements merely eroded public support more thoroughly.

the author, or one concerned in the writing of several weekly very seditious papers intitled, ‘ The Monitor or British Freeholder, No 257, 357, 358, 360, 373, 376, 378, and 380 ,’″ and seized printed charts, pamphlets and other materials.

The ethos of personal freedom and conflict-readiness of these novels were seen as seditious even in times of peace and stability.

Queen Victoria was not pleased with this statement, and an outraged Palmerston considered it seditious incitement to agitation.