The judge acted very harshly throughout, interrupted Mr.Foote continuously, and even refused bail to the defendants during the interval between the first and second trial; they were, therefore, confined in Newgate from Thursday to Monday, and we were only allowed to see them through iron bars and lattice, as they exercised in the prison yard between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m.Brought up to trial again on Monday, they were convicted, and Mr.Foote was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, Mr.
Ramsey to nine months, and Mr.Kemp to three months.

Mr.Foote especially behaved with great dignity and courage in a most difficult position, and heard his cruel sentence without wincing, and with the calm words, "My Lord, I thank you; it is worthy your creed." A few of us at once stepped in, to preserve to Mr.Ramsey his shop, and to Mr.
Foote his literary property; Dr.Aveling undertook the editing of the _Freethinker_ and of Mr.Foote's magazine _Progress_; the immediate necessities of their families were seen to; Mr.and Mrs.Forder took charge of the shop, and within a few days all was in working order.
Disapproving as many of us did of the policy of the paper, there was no time to think of that when a blasphemy prosecution had proved successful, and we all closed up in the support of men imprisoned for conscience' sake.

I commenced a series of articles on "The Christian Creed; what it is blasphemy to deny," showing what Christians must believe under peril of prosecution.

Everywhere a tremendous impulse was given to the Freethought movement, as men awakened to the knowledge that blasphemy laws were not obsolete.
From over the sea came a word of sympathy from the pen of H.P.
Blavatsky in the _Theosophist_.

"We prefer Mr.Foote's actual position to that of his severe judge.