got a guy William Penn.

Jeffrey: William Penn at the time was a young man. He was a Quaker

Tracy: One day, he's walking through the streets of London.

Jeffrey: To hold a prayer meeting in Grace church, meeting chapel.

Tracy: He walks up to the chapel door.

Jeffrey: He finds it locked by the authorities.

Tracy: The reason the doors were locked was because there was actually this century-old law on the books.

Jeffrey: It made it a crime to essentially to be Quaker.

Tracy: But what Penn does.

Robert: Hey, [inaudible 00:15:36]

Jad: One, [bleep] both you, two.

Penn: Hey, gather around. Gather around. Yes.

Robert: Penn starts calling everybody together in the streets.

Tracy: As more and more people start to gather.

Jeffrey: There's a large crowd.

Robert: Like 300 or 400 people show up.

Penn: Come on, come on.

Robert: Theauthority sees the occasion to arrest him for breach of the peace. Eventually, Penn gets thrown into jail.

Jad: He gets a jury trial.

Judge: The indictment is as follows that William Penn of London.

Tracy: Now the government, the King was pretty much discharging Penn for being a Quaker.

Robert: The authorities felt they could go underneath the table and just prosecute them for what was the common law crime of breach of the peace.

Judge: Are you guilty as you stand in the matter and form as for said or not guilty?

Penn: I plead not guilty in manner and form.

Robert: The case is pretty open and shut. I mean, he gathered hundreds of people in the middle of the street.

Jeffrey: According to law and the evidence he's guilty, but his defense