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The Augustan Reprint Society

John Dryden His Majesties Declaration Defended

With an Introduction by Godfrey Davies

Publication Number 23

Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1950

GENERAL EDITORS H. Richard Archer, Clark Memorial Library Richard C. Boys, University Of Michigan Edward Niles Hooker, University Of California, Los Angeles H.T. Swedenberg, Jr., University Of California, Los Angeles

ASSISTANT EDITORS W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan John Loftis, University of California, Los Angeles

INTRODUCTION

Roman Catholicism was feared and hated by many Englishmen for two distinct reasons. The first was based on bigotry, nourished by memories of the Marian persecution, the papal bull dethroning Elizabeth, Guy Fawkes' Plot, and by apprehensions that a Catholic could not be a loyal subject so long as he recognized the temporal power of the Pope. The second was political and assumed that Catholicism was the natural support of absolutism. As Shaftesbury, the leader of the opposition, stated, popery and slavery went hand in hand. Such fears were deepened as the general purport of the Treaty of Dover became known.

I desire to thank Mr. James M. Osborn, Yale University, for helpful suggestions in the preparation of this introduction.

This facsimile has been made from the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

His Majesties

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