William Sankey, boldly states, in Merchants' Hall.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL: L.C.1268(109)
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
ca. 1840?]
The text begins: That every Evangelical is a Heretic; --- "All the Ministers have no commission from God;" --- "They are accursed;" --- and "All the churches are Synagogues of Satan.
William Stephen Villiers Sankey (1793-1860) was a leader of the Chartist movement and represented Edinburgh and Midlothian at the Chartists' first national parliament-like gathering, the General Convention of the Industrious Classes in London in the winter of 1839, though he himself had a background of privilege and education. He was politically active in Edinburgh from around 1837.
Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
Sankey, W. S. (William S.)
Chartism
Religious tolerance