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4. A volume of pamphlets shelved at H3.3.13
Requested on: 4, 6, and 7 July 1866.
On his first visit to Marsh’s Library, Stoker requested a volume of seven cheap, topical pamphlets published separately between 1685 and 1688. They tell a story of religious tensions and anxieties.
Several were produced by Anglicans who feared for the very existence of their church under the newly-crowned Roman Catholic king of Britain and Ireland, James II. Other texts speak to suspicions of treachery from within the Protestant community. For example, John Gother, the author of A Papist Mis-represented and Represented (pictured), was an Englishman who converted to Rome in the 1660s, took Holy Orders, and subsequently became one of the most prolific defenders of the Roman Catholic church.
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4. A volume of pamphlets shelved at H3.3.13,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed May 4, 2024,
https://web.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/492