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‘Those Crafty Adversaries’: Bishop Francis Hutchinson and Anti-Catholic Rhetoric in Early Hanoverian England c. 1714–21
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
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Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660–1739) has been of interest to historians of English witchcraft largely as a result of the publication in 1718 of his sceptical witchcraft text, An Historical Essay Concerning Witches and Witchcraft. However, Hutchinson was also responsible for the publication of an array of anti-Catholic writing, published both in England and Ireland. This article examines two of these books in detail, namely A Compassionate Address to … Papists (1716) and A Defence of a Compassionate Address (1718). It is argued below that these books contain the type of the anti-Catholic propaganda issued by Whigs, in the aftermath of the Hanoverian accession, as part of their campaign to build lasting political hegemony out of short-term ascendancy.
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