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1591 S. Cottesford Treat. against Traitors sig. B8^v If this be so that a man hath not freedom of thought against a ruler of the people, how much then are they giltie of capitall crime before God and men, who do proceed not to disclosing, but to counsell giuing.

1629 T. Jackson Treat. Divine Essence i. 101 This infinite variety of choice or freedome of thought in man and Angels.

1687 W. Popple Rational Catech. 1 We ar now at som leisure from our ordinary Occupations, and have therby the advantage of enjoying that freedom of Thought which is inconsistant with the Cares of the World.

1718 Free-thinker No. 1. 2 Freedom of Thought is like Freedom in Actions.

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. Pref. p. xiii Freedom of thought, unshackled by the trammels of authority.

1840 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 33 298 We must be looking for a religious philosophy, and our main hope ought to be that it will be such a one as fulfils the conditions of a philosophy—the very foremost of which is, unrestricted freedom of thought.

1863 Sat. Rev. 2 May 554 The French Academy is now the last resting-place in France of freedom of thought.

a1918 J. West Hist. Chartist Movement (1920) ii. 49 The agitations for freedom of thought, an unstamped press, Owenist Socialism..and the Reform movement.

1941 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 26 289 It is freedom of thought itself and when thought is free what can bind us?

2004 J. Paton Walsh in Slightly Foxed Winter 65 The Czech Government's assertions..that there was freedom of thought and association behind the Iron Curtain.