The Independent Whig: Or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity, And of our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Extravagant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen.

Published by London : Printed by W Wilkins for J Peele at Locke's Head in Pater-noster-Row MDCCXXVIII, 1728

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The fourth edition. A very good contempoary full leather binding. 8vo. 20.2cm x 13.0cm x 3.9cm. [2pp.]/pp.484/[20pp. - Index] . Brown polished calf . Edges and corners carefully strengthened. Spine with5 raised bands. Small careful repairs to top & tail of spine. Pencil notes and ink spots to endpapers, otherwise clean English text throughout. VG. ** "GORDON, THOMAS (d. 1750), miscellaneous writer, was born in Kirkcudbright about the end of the seventeenth century. He is said to have been educated at some Scottish university. If a 'disputatio juridica' be rightly attributed to him in the catalogue of the British Museum, he became an advocate at the Scottish bar in 1716. He came to London as a young man and taught languages. Two pamphlets on the Bangorian controversy commended him to John Trenchard, a whig politician. A tract called the 'Independent Whig,' published at the time of the rejection of the Peerage Bill (December 1719), of which there is no copy in the British Museum, was followed by a second part in January 1720, on the peace with Spain and the value of Gibraltar to England, several editions of which were issued. A weekly paper of the same name was then started, and carried on through the year, the articles by Trenchard, Gordon, and a third contributor, 'C.,' It was first collected in one volume in 1721." - See Dictionary of National Biography .…

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The Independent Whig: Or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity, And of our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Extravagant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen.
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GORDON, Thomas (d. 1750) .:
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London : Printed by W Wilkins for J Peele at Locke's Head in Pater-noster-Row MDCCXXVIII
Publication year
1728
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