In 1922 Hannington received his first term of a month's imprisonment for uttering seditious words.

Most cases of seditious words expressed a belief in the principle of Stuart legitimacy.

He was also fined the huge sum of £5,000 for uttering "seditious" words.

When Moseley's case came to trial the following year, he was accused of uttering "seditious words" against the governor when the governor's agents surrounded him.

This was later reduced to a single charge of uttering seditious words.

In the following February he was prosecuted by the Star Chamber for 'pretended riot and seditious words' used by him to the officers sent to execute the replevin.

The seditious conspiracy charge was dropped, but the men received suspended sentences for uttering seditious words and for offences against the Public Order Act.

Names, dates, places and seditious words spoken.

Also, actions against individuals for seditious, treasonous or blasphemous words was hindered as spies and shorthand writers could not easily transcribe undiscovered in such an environment.

This includes the publication of seditious materials, the utterance of seditious words, and the importing of seditious material.