J., L.L.D.

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Animadversions on A late Factious Book, First edition of this anonymous response (signed L.L.D.J at end) to Charles Davenant's book of the same year, which had criticized the government and leading ecclesiastics. In a highly hostile tone, the author declares that Davenant's book "arraigns the ministry in a most outrageous manner; transgresses all the rules of modesty, abandons truth, and casts his blasphemous aspersions on that which all good men hold most sacred, the church" (p. 6). The author defends the ministry at a tumultuous time (with two elections in 1701, alternating Tory and Whig governments, and the ongoing war), especially its foreign policy, against Davenant's attacks.

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