ABSTRACT
Besides witnesses taken into custody for the purpose of squeezing them, the Government eventually struck at thirteen members of the London societies-seven of the Corresponding Society and six of the Constitutional. Their names were Hardy, Horne Tooke, Bonney, Stewart Kyd, Jeremiah Joyce, Thomas Wardle, Thomas Holcroft, John Richter, Matthew Moore, Thelwall, Richard Hodgson, John Baxter, and John Lovett.2 Hardy was a shoemaker, Tooke a clerk in orders and a gentleman of independent means, Bonney a solicitor, Kyd a barrister, Joyce a dissenting minister and tutor, Richter a man-servant, Thelwall a lecturer and journalist, Hodgson a hatter, Baxter a silversmith, Lovett a hairdresser; Holcroft had been a jockey and an actor and was a dramatist.3 Of Wardle and Moore nothing seems to be known, beyond that they were indicted as " gentlemen,” which signifies nothing ; for Richter was honoured in the same way.
