Other editions of book The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for killing Cock Robin

Although the poem resembles the children’s nursery rhyme, “Who Killed Cock Robin?”, this booklet was originally produced, anonymously, in London, as a political statement. It is a fragment of English history and culture that should be preserved. That is why it has been recreated, using digital scans of the original color artwork, and republished in this little volume. From the British Library , about the original booklet: “This publication from 1819 uses the children’s nursery rhyme ‘Who Killed Cock Robin?’ as a means to criticise the ‘Peterloo Massacre’. In August that year a mass rally of an estimated 100,000 people had gathered at St Peter’s Fields in Manchester to hear the pro-reform speeches of Henry Hunt. Fearing insurrection, magistrates ordered the meeting to be broken up by force and the leaders arrested. Ten to twenty people were killed at the hands of the Yeomanry, and several hundred more injured. The pages shown here illustrate the apparent indifference of the magistrates to the fate of the people that day. Note, in particular, the depiction of the Prince Regent as a strutting peacock who was apparently ‘unconcerned’ at events in the north. “The deaths in Manchester did much to upset social relations between the militia, politicians and the working class. The protest was widely reported by journalists and public indignation was raised to fever-pitch. The government, however, responded by supporting the actions of the magistrates and by implementing a crack-down on radicalism. This was achieved through the implementation of the ‘Six Acts’, designed to curb the activities of political radicals.”

Excerpt from The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock RobinAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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