A political catechism

A political catechism

St. James's chronicle

[S.l. ca. 1777]

[4] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)

MSS L1990.43

Possibly in the hand of Robert Barnard|At head of title: No. 25|At end of article: St. James's Chronicle, March 8 1777; Barnard probably copied the article at that time or soon thereafter.|What is the Tory's civil Liberty? Passive obedience and non-resistance."|What is Liberty,according to Dr. Johnson? Being in any one's power, but our own."|Which was the worst Scotch character, Macbeth or Charles the First? Doubtless the latter. Macbeth only murthered his king, benefactor, and guest; whereas the hypocrite Stuart depopulated a kingdon for the Lord's sake, and both robbed and murthered under the mask of Divine right."|Bookseller's description suggests that this was "extracted from a collection of pamphlets and ephemera, apparently collected by Robert Barnard ... [and] appears to be in his hand."|According to the bookseller, Barnard was a resident of Boston, Lincolnshire, England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries who had a strong interest in reform movements and Parliamentary reform. and who was therefore "probably sympathetic to the American cause." -- See Case file.|Pages [2] and [4] are blank; left margin torn away from p. [1], not affecting text.

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