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… a boisterous all-male sociability were hallmarks of the Robin Hood Society. The society had a reputation for political radicalism in the 1760s and 1770s when Wilkite sentiment was voiced in it; for Mary Thale, ‘anti-ministeralism’ is a better characterization than ‘radicalism’ ( Thale, 'The Robin Hood Society', 47). The quality of the oratory was derided as execrable by many hostile …
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