The Gagging Acts was the common name for two acts of Parliament passed in 1817 by

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. They were also known as the Grenville and Pitt Bills. The specific acts themselves were the Treason Act 1817 and the Seditious Meetings Act 1817.University of Warwick website
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in order to curb and suppress reformist demands by campaigners and corresponding societies, culminating in the Six Acts of 1819, after the

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