A Roland for an Oliver
Subtitle: letters on religious persecution : proving that that most heinous of crimes, has not been peculiar to Roman Catholics, but that when they had the power, Protestants of almost every denomination have been equally guilty, and that particularly in England, for one hundred and fifty years, it was perpetrated in its most hideous forms of hanging, cutting down alive, scooping out the bowels, burning them before the face of the victim, chopping off his hand, and cutting his body in quarters, while the flesh was still quivering under the butcher's knife, and finally, in many cases burning the unfortunate religionist alive : in reply to a libellous attack on the Roman Catholics, in an address delivered to a society of Irish Orange men, styling themselves the Gideonite Society
By: by a Catholic layman
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Printed for Bernard Dornin ...
Published: 1826
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Persecution; Anti-Catholicism; Sources; Controversial literature; Catholic Church; Gideonite Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Other titles: Letters on religious persecution
Notes: Title from cover.

Preface signed: Mathew Carey, Sept. 12, 1826.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parsons, W. Catholic Americana, 886

Shoemaker, R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829, 24025