Considerations On The Penal Laws Against Roman Catholics In England, And The New Acquired Colonies in America
- A Country Gentleman (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This pamphlet written anonymously under the byline “a country gentleman,” addressed as a letter to a noble lord. It examines the English penal laws targeting Roman Catholics and argues for how those policies should be applied — or reconsidered — in the American colonies recently acquired by Britain following the Seven Years' War.
The work sits at the intersection of religious tolerance, colonial governance, and English law, reflecting the broader debates of the mid-18th century about how to manage a newly expanded empire that included large Catholic populations, particularly in French Canada.
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