…all the inflamed mob did was to send a monstrous petition across to the House of Commons. It had five million signatures, they said; I know it had four of mine, one in the name of Obadiah Snooks, and three others in the shape of Xs besides which I wrote, ‘John Morrison, Arthur Wellesley, Henry John Temple Palmerston, their marks’.
Flash For Freedom!, pp.18-19, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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