Remarks on Mr. Steele's Crisis. By One of the Clergy, &c. By One of the Clergy. In a Letter to the Author.
Edinburgh: Robert Freebairn, 1714.
Price: $150.00
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First Edinburgh edition. 22, [2, blank C4] pp. 12mo. Disbound. ESTC T139503.
Item #308157
Edinburgh edition of a pamphlet challenging Steele's assertion in The Crisis that the Hanoverian succession was in jeopardy due to Tory preference for The Old Pretender. The charge lead to Steele's expulsion from Parliament for sedition. Written by an unnamed clergyman, who signs as "B.R." at the end. A London edition was published in 1714 as well.