An enquiry into the principles of toleration; the degree, in which they are admitted by our laws; and the Reasonableness of the late Application made by the Dissenters to parliament for an Enlargement of their Religious Liberties.
Shrewsbury.
Printed by J. Eddowes, 1773.
Second edition, with considerable Additions.
xxviii, 128pp. ESTC T71083.
[Bound with:] [HEYWOOD, Samuel]. The right of protestant dissenters to a compleat toleration, asserted... London. Printed for J. Johnson, 1787. First edition. [8], 228pp. ESTC T4880.
[And:] BEAUFOY, Henry. The substance of the speech delivered by henry beaufoy, Esq. in the house of commons, Upon the 28th of March, 1787, on his motion for the repeal of the test and corporation acts; including also the substance of his reply. London. Printed for T. Cadell, 1787. First edition. [4], 60pp. ESTC T48790.
[And:] SHERLOCK, [Thomas]. Bishop sherlock's arguments against a repeal of the corporation and test acts... London. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787. First edition. iv, [2], 73pp, [1]. ESTC T4874.
[And:] HOADLY, [Benjamin]. Bishop hoadly's refutation of bishop sherlock's arguments against a repeal of the corporation and test acts... London. Printed for Charles Dilly, 1787. First edition. vii, [1], 78pp, [2]. With a terminal errata leaf. ESTC T4875.
[And:] [HOADLEY], Benjamin, Lord Bishop of Bangor. The Common Rights of subjects, defended: And the Nature of the Sacramental Test, consider'd. In Answer to the Dean of Chichester's Vindication of the Corporation and Test Acts. London. Printed by W. Wilkins, 1719. First edition. viii, [4], 303pp, [1]. ESTC T130.
8vo. Contemporary marbled paper boards, recently rebacked with gilt-ruled, blind-tooled calf preserving contemporary red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, corners exposed. Early manuscript list of contents to front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting.
[Bound with:] [HEYWOOD, Samuel]. The right of protestant dissenters to a compleat toleration, asserted... London. Printed for J. Johnson, 1787. First edition. [8], 228pp. ESTC T4880.
[And:] BEAUFOY, Henry. The substance of the speech delivered by henry beaufoy, Esq. in the house of commons, Upon the 28th of March, 1787, on his motion for the repeal of the test and corporation acts; including also the substance of his reply. London. Printed for T. Cadell, 1787. First edition. [4], 60pp. ESTC T48790.
[And:] SHERLOCK, [Thomas]. Bishop sherlock's arguments against a repeal of the corporation and test acts... London. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787. First edition. iv, [2], 73pp, [1]. ESTC T4874.
[And:] HOADLY, [Benjamin]. Bishop hoadly's refutation of bishop sherlock's arguments against a repeal of the corporation and test acts... London. Printed for Charles Dilly, 1787. First edition. vii, [1], 78pp, [2]. With a terminal errata leaf. ESTC T4875.
[And:] [HOADLEY], Benjamin, Lord Bishop of Bangor. The Common Rights of subjects, defended: And the Nature of the Sacramental Test, consider'd. In Answer to the Dean of Chichester's Vindication of the Corporation and Test Acts. London. Printed by W. Wilkins, 1719. First edition. viii, [4], 303pp, [1]. ESTC T130.
8vo. Contemporary marbled paper boards, recently rebacked with gilt-ruled, blind-tooled calf preserving contemporary red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, corners exposed. Early manuscript list of contents to front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting.
A coherent sammelband of eighteenth-century tracts concerning the mooted repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts - the statutes restricting civil office to members of the Church of England.
The sammelband includes Samuel Heywood's (1753-1828) scholarly history of the Test and Corporation Acts; an impassioned polemic denouncing Anglican primacy and the exclusion of dissenters from holding public positions of authority.
£ 500.00
Antiquates Ref: 35134
The sammelband includes Samuel Heywood's (1753-1828) scholarly history of the Test and Corporation Acts; an impassioned polemic denouncing Anglican primacy and the exclusion of dissenters from holding public positions of authority.
