John Checkley
Subtitle: or, The evolution of religious tolerance in Massachusetts Bay ...
By: With historical illus. and a memoir by Edmund F. Slafter.
Series: Burt Franklin research and source works series, 131. American classics in history and social science, 2; Publications of the Prince Society ;; v. 22-23.
Publisher: B. Franklin
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Checkley, John, 1680-1754.; Checkley family.; Episcopacy -- Bibliography.
Other titles: Religious tolerance in Mass. Bay, 1719-1774.
Notes: On spine: Religious tolerance in Mass. Bay, 1719-1774.
Reprint of the 1897 ed., issued as v. 22-23 of the publications of the Prince Society.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Memoir of John Checkley. The will of the Rev. John Checkley. Inventory of personal estate. The Checkley family. Choice dialogues. A modest proof. A true pastor. The old parsonage.; title: v. 2. The presentment of Mr. John Checkley for libel. The speech of Mr. Checkley upon his tryal. The jury's verdict. The argument of John Read, Esq., in arrest of judgment. A plea in arrest of judgment by Mr. John Checkley. The sentence of the court. A defence of a book entitled A modest proof of the order and government of the Church. Postscript to the defence. Animadversions upon two pamphlets. A letter to Jonathan Dickinson in defence of a book entitled A modest proof of Church government, &c. Letters of the Rev. John Checkley. Bibliography of the controversy relating to episcopacy (p. [225]-298)