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mind the latter indignity ; accordingly, De Foe 

 remarks in one of Lis works : 



" I have heard a bookseller in King James's time say, 

 'That if he would have a book sell, he would have it 

 burnt by the hands of the common hangman.' " — Essay 

 on Projects, p. 173. 



Shortly after he wrote — 



" A Brief Explanation of a late Pamphlet, entitled ' The 

 Shortest Way with the Dissenters.' London, 1703. 4to." * 



And next year our "unabashed De Foe" pub- 

 lishes — 



" More Short Ways with the Dissenters. London, 

 1704, 4to., pp. 24." 



The keen satire entitled The Shortest Way ivith 

 the Dissenters, drew forth a vast number of replies 

 and animadversions. I mention one for the sake 

 of the title : 



" The Fox with his -Firebrand unkennelled and en- 

 snared ; or, a Short Answer to Mr. Daniel Defoe's ' Shortest 

 Way with the Dissenters.' As also to his 'Brief Expli- 

 cation ' of the same. Together with some Animadversions 

 upon the Sham Reflections made upon his * Shortest 

 Way,' and printed with the same. London : printed in 

 the year 1703, 4to." 



De Foe's satire was not altogether uncalled for, 

 and is justified by many writings of the High 

 Church party. It seems to have especial reference 

 to a sermon of Dr. Sacheverell's, preached before 

 the University of Oxford, and printed with the 

 imprimatur of the Vice-Chancellor, dated June 2, 

 1702. It is entitled — 



" The Political Union ; A Discourse, showing the De- 

 pendence of Government on Religion in general ; and of 

 the English Monarchy on the Church of England in par- 

 ticular." 



In it occurs the following passage : 



" Men must be strange infiituated sots and bigots to be 

 so much in love with their ruin, as to seek and court it : 

 and it is as unaccountable and amazing a contradiction to 

 our reason, as the greatest reproach and scandal upon our 

 Church, however others may be seduced or misled, that 

 any pretending to that sacred and inviolable character of 

 being her true sons, pillars, and defenders, should turn 

 such apostates and renegadoes to their oaths and profes- 

 sions, such false traitors to their trusts and offices, as to 

 strike sail with a party that is such an open and avowed 

 enemy to our Communion ; and against whom every man 

 that wishes its welfare ought to hang out the Bloody Flag 

 and Banner of Defiance. But in this, as well as most 

 other circumstances, both our Church and State share the 

 same common fate, that they can be ruined by none but 

 themselves ; and that, if ever they receive a mortal stab 

 or wound, it must be in the house of their friends." 



Dennis replied to this sermon in a pamphlet 

 entitled — 



" The Danger of Priestcraft to Religion and Govern- 

 ment ; with some Politick Reasons for a Toleration, &c. 

 London, 1702." 



* De Foe gives an "explanation" of this satire in 

 another work also : see Tlie Present State of Parties in 

 Great Britain, London, 1712, 8vo., pp. 18. 21." 



"Which was answered by Charles Leslie in — 



" The New Association of those called Moderate Church- 

 men, with the Modern Whigs and Fanaticks, to under- 

 mine and blow up the present Church and Government. 

 Occasioned by a late Pamphlet, entitled ' The Danger of 

 Priestcratl,' &c. With a Supplement on occasion of the 

 New Scotch Presbyterian Covenant. By a True Church- 

 man. London, 1702, 4to." 



Upon Nov. 5, 1709, Dr. Sacheverell preached 

 his famous sermon at St. Paul's, The Perils among 

 False Brethren ; which, after his being impeached 

 before the House of Commons, and condemned by 

 the Lords, was burnt by the hangman. 



Dr. Sacheverell's trial, and the agitation of the 

 Tory mob, produced many publications. The first 

 I shall refer to is that by Ned Ward, one of the 

 inferior grade of High Church partisans. This 

 writer published his effusions in separate cantos, 

 and afterwards collected them into a volume with 

 the following title : 



" Vulgus Britannicus ; or, The British Hudibras, in 

 Fifteen Cantos. The Five Parts complete in One Volume. 

 Containing the Secret History of the late London Mob ; 

 their Rise, Progress, and Suppression by the Guards; 

 intermixed with the Civil Wars betwixt High Church and 

 Low Church, down to this Time. Being a Continuation 

 of the late ingenious Mr. Butler's ' Hudibras.' Written 

 by the Author of 'The London Sp3\' The Second Edi- 

 tion, adorned with Cuts of Battles, Emblems, and Effigies, 

 engraven on Copper Plates. London : printed for Sam. 

 Briscoe, &c., 1710, 8vo., pp. 180." 



At this period De Foe published his -— 



" Instructions from Rome in favour of the Pretender. 

 Inscribed to the most elevated Don Sacheverellio, and his 

 Brother Don Higginisco. And which all Perkinites, 

 Non-Jurors, High-Flyers, Popish-Desirers, Wooden-shoe 

 Admirers*, and Absolute Non-resistance Drivers, are 

 obliged to pursue and maintain, under pain of his Ua- 

 holinesses Damnation, in order to carry on their intended 

 Subversion of a Government fixed upon Revolution Prin- 

 ciples. London : J. Baker, 1710, 8vo." 



And also — 



" The High Church Address to Dr. Henry Sacheverell, 

 for the great Service he has done the Established Church 

 and Nation : wherein is shown the Justice of the Pro- 

 ceedings of those Gentlemen who have encouraged the 

 pulling down and destroying those Nurseries of Schism, 

 the Presbyterian Meeting-houses. Submitted to the 

 Consideration of all Good Churchmen and Conscientious 

 Dissenters. London : J. Baker, 1710. Price One Penny." 



In 1704 De Foe published a pamphlet, entitled 



* Wooden shoes rank among the chief evils from which 

 we were delivered in " that never-to-be-forgotten year of 

 grace 1688." Thej' are gratefully enumerated in the famous 

 Orange toast: "To the Glorious, Pious, and Immortal 

 Memory of the Great Deliverer, &c., who rescued us from 

 Popery, Prelacj', Brass Money, and Wooden Shoes." They 

 may be said to form part of the Greater Litany of the 

 Puritans. The Lesser Litany runs simplj' : 



" From Plague, Pestilence, and Famine ; 

 From Bishops, Priests, and Deacons ; 



Good Lord, deliver us ! " , 



