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5 November 1709
Sacheverell Affair
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Dr Henry Sacheverell, a Tory and High Anglican churchman, preaches a
sermon at St Paul's in London on 'The Perils of False Brethren in Church
and State' – an attack on the Whig government and the idea of the
Hanoverian succession. In December, the Whigs in the Commons resolve
to try him. The subsequent trial, which begins on 27 February 1710, results
in anti-Whig riots, during which Dissenting meeting houses are attacked.
The mild sentence that he is given – suspension from preaching
for three years – is seen as a defeat for the Whigs, and Sacheverell
is perceived as a martyr.
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