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| Title | A Roland for an Oliver : letters on religious persecution : proving that that most heinous of crimes, has not been peculiar to Roman Catholics, but that when they had the power, Protestants of almost every denomination have been equally guilty, and that particularly in England, for one hundred and fifty years, it was perpetrated in its most hideous forms of hanging, cutting down alive, scooping out the bowels, burning them before the face of the victim, chopping off his hand, and cutting his body in quarters, while the flesh was still quivering under the butcher's knife, and finally, in many cases burning the unfortunate religionist alive : in reply to a libellous attack on the Roman Catholics, in an address delivered to a society of Irish Orange men, styling themselves the Gideonite Society |
| Author |
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 |
| Collection | P001 |
| Call# | P001.0204 |
| Published Place | Philadelphia |
| Publisher | Bernard Dornin |
| Published Date | 1826 |
| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Language | English |
| Notes | "By a Catholic Layman" |
| Subjects |
Persecution. Anti-Catholicism -- Sources. Anti-Catholicism -- England. Anti-Catholicism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Catholic Church -- Controversial literature. Gideonite Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Object Type | Pamphlet |
| Object ID | P001.0204 |