Lord Sidmouth
When police arrested Thistlewood after the Spa Fields meeting, he had already bought tickets to travel to the United States. Thistlewood wrote to the Home Secretary Lord Sidmouth in 1817 to demand reimbursement. When Sidmouth failed to respond, Thistlewood challenged him to a duel and was imprisoned in Horsham Jail for 12 months.
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“Now the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 16:14.