An Essay on the Law of Celibacy imposed on the Clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, and observed in all the Religious Orders abroad
Subtitle: In which are delineated its rise ... from the ... early stages of its existence, down to the present times; and the impropriety of this Ecclesiastical Constitution is shewn ... : As also, a summary account is given of the Origin of the Monastic Life ... Interpreted with various remarks upon several other observances of the Roman Catholic Discipline
By: [By Reverend John Hawkins] ....
Publisher: Printed and sold by M. Lewis, in High-street; sold also by J. F. and C. Rivington (No. 62, St. Paul's Church-yard, and J. Bew, Paternoster-Row, London; Fletcher, Oxford; Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham; Pugh, Hereford; and Evans, Glocester
Published: 1782
Place of publication: Worcester)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Notes: 'Errata' note on verso of final leaf.

Author supplied by H&L and ESTC; the latter describes rhe Rev. John Hawkins as 'of Barborne Lodge, Worcester' [B.L. gives 'Barbone' ]

ESTC1267H4 [?1782] [under Hawkins]; ESTC1740R39 [under Rome, Church of].