A Letter to a Dissenter, bound with two answers.

Complete in all respects. Bound in 20th Century Marbled Card Boards, with a green leather strip applied to the spine with the title in gilt. The boards with some mild scuffing and wear. Still in nearly fine shape.  Internally the leaves are generally clean and well margined, with some light staining in the margins and some light toning, with some scattered fox marks.  Some browning throughout but the paper remains supple.

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On The Letter to a Dissenter

In 1687 he published the famous Letter to a Dissenter, in which he warns the Nonconformists against being beguiled by the “Indulgence” into joining the court party, sets in a clear light the fatal results of such a step, and reminds them that under their next sovereign their grievances would in all probability be satisfied by the law. The tract was influential and widely read. 20,000 copies were circulated through the kingdom, and a great party was convinced of the wisdom of remaining faithful to the national traditions and liberties.

On Payne’s ‘An Answer to a Scandalous Pamphlet’

After Payne wrote ‘An Answer to a Scandalous Pamphlet entitled a Letter to a Dissenter concerning his Majestie’s late Declaration of Indulgence,’ 1687 he was called forth in  ‘An Answer to Mr. Henry Payne’s Letter concerning his Majesty’s Indulgence writ to the Author of the Letter to a Dissenter by T. T.’ ‘Mr. Payne,’ writes the author of this pamphlet, ‘I cannot help asking you how much money you had from the writer of the Paper which you pretend to answer; for as you have the character of a man who deals with both hands, so this is writ in such a manner as to make one think you were inclined to it by the adverse party;’ and he adds: ‘Both in your books of Constitution and Policy, and even in your poems, you seem to have entered into such an intermixture with the Irish that the thread all over is linsey-wolsey.’