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02941aam a2200445 i 4500 001 8E945B14664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221117010035 008 211115s2022 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021056190 020 $a 1009102869 020 $a 9781009102865 020 $a 100909890X 020 $a 9781009098908 035 $a (OCoLC)1280277313 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d GYG $d CLU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ma 050 00 $a KFM2967.5 $b .O43 2022 100 1 $a Olbertson, Kristin A., $e author. $4 aut 245 14 $a The dreadful word : $b speech crime and polite gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776 / $c Kristin A. Olbertson, Alma College. 263 $a 2212 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xiv, 323 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in legal history 500 $a Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Michigan, 2003) issued under title: Criminally impolite : speech transgressions & social order in Massachusetts, 1690-1776. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-310) and index. 505 0 $a A politer peace -- Sensibility -- Civility -- Credibility -- Cacophony -- Respectability. 520 $a "You are a Liar; you are no more fit for a Justice than the Devil! You are a Justice of a Fiend!", shouted yeoman Bildad Fowler at Justice Eldad Taylor in December of 1772. Several of the "good People" of Hampshire County witnessed Fowler's vituperative outburst at Justice Taylor, much to the disrepute of his "Office and Authority," as Taylor reported the incident to the next sitting of the county's Court of General Sessions of the Peace. In his report to the court, Taylor repeated Fowler's abusive statements, "all which Expressions," he told his fellow justices, he "apprehends to be Violations of those Rules of Decency and good Manners that every one ought to observe towards [each] of his Majesty's Justices of the peace [and] inconsistent with the good behavior the said Bildad ought to have maintained"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Libel and slander $z Massachusetts $x History $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a Massachusetts $x Social life and customs $y To 1775. 650 0 $a Trials (Libel) $z Massachusetts $x History $y 18th century. 651 6 $a Massachusetts $x M¿urs et coutumes $y Jusqu'a 1775. 650 7 $a Libel and slander $x Criminal provisions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997163 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 776 08 $i Online version: $a Olbertson, Kristin A. $t Dreadful word. $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 $z 9781009106535 $w (OCoLC)1294398010 $w (OCoLC)1294398010 830 0 $a Studies in legal history. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017023449.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8E945B14664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search