Historical clue formulations

• It's "read" to an unruly crowd — 2022-08-29
• It's "read" during a reprimand — 2019-09-24
• Lecturer's reading? — 2019-07-10
• It may be read to the rowdy — 2019-03-21
• Mob rule? — 2019-02-23
• It's often read metaphorically — 2017-11-10
• Vigorous reprimand — 2016-04-01
• What a rabble-rouser might be read — 2016-01-10
• It may be read to a miscreant — 2014-04-22
• Controversial 1715 measure of Parliament — 2013-12-20
• Old means of crowd control — 2012-11-17
• It's read to the rowdy — 2010-03-14
• It's read to the unruly — 2007-11-08
• Reading to the unruly — 2006-01-15
• What gets read to rabble-rousers — 2004-01-16
• Lengthy reproval — 2002-11-29
• Reprimander's reading — 1998-10-04