Author: O'Leary, Arthur, Rev. [1729-1802]
Title: Rev. Arthur O'Leary's Address to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the Parliament of Great Britain .,.
Description: London, J. Booker, 1800. 17x12cm, 66 pp, Title page chipped, torn and partially detached. Some small holes to title-page.. Disbound. without binding. Poor condition. ¶ A large chip from bottom title page corner, with one letter of one word [ publisher's address] lost. Not listed in Library of Congress online catalogue. Not listed in Harvard University Hollis online catalogue. [ response to Sir Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay, 3rd Bart.] [O'leary: "Irish priest & politician, while a Capuchin friar at St. Malo acted as chaplain to prisoners in France, 1756-62; settled in Cork, 1771; wrote pamphlets exhorting Romanists to be loyal to British rule; defended them against Wesley, 1780; published 'Easay on Toleration', ca. 1781; chaplain to Irish national volunteers, 1782-4 but in receipt of pension from British government to reveal secrets of disaffected Roman catholics..exerted personal influence against Whiteboys in Munster, 1785-6, came to England as chaplain of the Spanish embassy. 1789; attended meetings of catholic committee, but opposed its action.." - DNB]

Keywords: English Catholics, Arthur O'Leary, England Church, Roman Catholic, Toleration Politics, Nuns Religion, Religious Orders, Political History, Minority Minorities