John Oldmixon - The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil
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Richard Fiddes - A General Treatise of Morality (on Mandeville)
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Publisher Edmund Curll is convicted under English law for the publication of an English translation of Venus in the Cloister (in 1724) under the common law offence of disturbing the peace, setting a legal precedent for prosecutions for obscenity.