THE LIFE OF DR. SAMUEL CHANDLER. BOOK I. OF PERSECUTION AMONGST THE HEATHENS UPON ACCOUNT OF RELIGION. BOOK II. OF THE PERSECUTIONS UNDER THE CHRISTIAN EMPERORS. BOOK III. OF PERSECUTIONS UNDER THE PAPACY, AND PARTICULARLY OF THE INQUISITION. BOOK IV. OF PERSECUTIONS AMONGST PROTESTANTS. Footnotes and their anchors have been resequenced for uniqueness within the text, have been collected at the end of each chapter, and are linked for ease of reference. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. A cover image has been prepared from information on the title page, and is placed in the public domain. Any corrections are indicated using an underline highlight. Placing the cursor over the correction will produce the original text in a small popup. Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in the note at the end of the text. from the PATRIARCHIAL AGE, TO THE REIGN OF GEORGE II. By S. CHANDLER, D.D. F.R.S. S.A. A New Edition. To which are added, The Rev. Dr. Buchanan’s Notices of the present State of the Inquisition at Goa. ALSO, AN APPENDIX, containing HINTS ON THE RECENT PERSECUTIONS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE. SOME CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO LORD VISCOUNT SIDMOUTH’S BILL; A CIRCUMSTANTIAL DETAIL OF THE STEPS TAKEN TO OBTAIN The New Toleration Act, WITH THE ACT ITSELF, AND OTHER IMPORTANT MATTER. By CHARLES ATMORE. “Uniformity of religious belief is not to be expected, so variously constituted are the minds of men, and consequently Religious Coercion is not only absurd and impolitic, but for all good purposes impracticable.” Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury. HULL: PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR, AND J. CRAGGS; AND SOLD BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW; BLANCHARD, No. 14, CITY ROAD, LONDON; AND WILSON AND SON, YORK. 1813. |