Preservative against Popery (also Preservation against Popery) is a name commonly given to a collection of anti-Catholic works published in 1738 by Edmund Gibson. It drew largely on the literature of the "Romish Controversy" of the 1680s, in which Church of England controversialists made a case against what they saw as a present threat from Catholicism. The original edition was in three folio volumes. [1]
John Cumming made an edition in the 1840s. In 18 volumes, it collected up extra tracts. [2] The publication was supported by the British Reformation Society, part of the reaction to Tractarianism. [3]
Volume | Contents |
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I [4] | Nicholas Stratford, William Clagett, Gilbert Burnet, William Cave or Thorp, Roger Altham |
II [5] | George Hickes, Gregory Hascard, Burnet, Henry Wharton, William Payne |
III [6] | William Lloyd, Simon Patrick, Nathaniel Resbury, Samuel Freeman, William Sherlock, "Popish Notes" (against Robert Bellarmine: Sherlock, Freeman, Simon Patrick, John Williams, Edward Fowler, Thorp, Payne, Claggett, John Scott, Thomas Lynford) |
IV [7] | Thomas Tenison, Resbury, Clagett, Richard Kidder, Stratford, Robert Grove, Clement Ellis or Anthony Ellys, Luke de Beaulieu, Henry Maurice, Sherlock |
V [8] | Simon Patrick, George Tully or Thomas Tully, Hutchinson and Clagett, Edward Stillingfleet, Williams, Sherlock, Kidder, Stratford |
VI [9] | Grove, Fowler, Sherlock, William Wake, Payne, Edward Gee and Kidder, Williams |
VII [10] | Scott, Freeman, Clagett, Daniel Whitby, Thomas Comber |
VIII [11] | Comber, Gee, William Stanley, Stillingfleet, Peter Allix, Clagett, Payne |
IX [12] | Payne, Clagett, John Patrick, Stillingfleet, Williams |
X [13] | Wake, Payne, John Goodman, Lynford, Allix, John Gascarth, Stillingfleet |
XI [14] | Wake, John Bramston, Sherlock, Stillingfleet |
XII [15] | Lloyd, Wake |
XIII [16] | Wake, Williams, Stillingfleet, Clagett |
XIV [17] | Clagett, Sherlock, Altham, Samuel Gardiner |
XV [18] | Robert Jenkin, Comber, William Fleetwood |
XVI [19] | Simon Patrick, Hicks?, Tenison, Clagett |
XVII [20] | Lord Burleigh, John Rawlett, Joseph Hall |
XVIII [21] | Biographical |
Cumming, Richard Paul Blakeney and Martin Wilson Foye then edited a Supplement to the edition of Cumming, again for the British Reformation Society. It was in eight volumes. [22]