In the Worcester Journal I quoted above was also this brief note about another ongoing tax resistance campaign:
At the Kent Quarter Sessions, held at Maidstone on , three men were tried for “having riotously and tumultuously obstructed” the parish-officers in levying a distress for church-rates at Seven Oaks.
The case appears to have been made out against the prisoners; but the Jury immediately acquitted the prisoners.
— Two other men were then tried for obstructing the sale of the pig which was seized in the distress alluded to in the above trial.
Here the evidence seems to have been defective; and the prisoners were acquitted.
One of them is Secretary to the West Kent Political Union.
