1697 Snake in Grass Quaker Church Ireland AMERICA IRISH Jacobite Charles Leslie

1697 IRISH Jacobite Charles Leslie Snake in Grass Quaker Church Ireland AMERICA

Charles Leslie was a 17^th-century Irish priest who was notable for being a Jacobite leader following the Glorious Revolution. Beginning in 1697, Leslie began writing his first of seven anti-Quaker propaganda works. It was in these works that Leslie made claims that Quakers were false prophets and conjurers. In addition to Quakers, Leslie defamed other religious groups including Jews, Catholics, and Deists, and his criticisms extended beyond Europe. According to Sabin, ‘The Snake in the Grass’ gives an account

“New Quakers who mostly reside in Long Island and East Jersey, in America.”

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LESLIE, Charles

The snake in the grass: or, Satan transform’d into an angel of light, discovering the deep and unsuspected subtilty which is couched under the pretended simplicity, of many of the principal leaders of those people call’d Quakers·

London: printed for Charles Brome, at the Gun at the west-end of St. Paul’s, 1697.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages

o   [2], xlv, [9], 381, [3]

• References: Sabin 40195; ESTC R 216663; Wing L 1156;
• Provenance: Handwritten – Thomas and Mary Robson, 1867
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~7.75in X 4.75in (19.5cm x 12.5cm)

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