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The Shortest Way with the Dissenters

Name: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
Author: Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe

The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church is a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1702. Defoe was prompted to write the pamphlet by the increased hostility towards Dissenters in the wake of the accession of Queen Anne to the throne.

“Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!”

Daniel Defoe book The Shortest Way with the Dissenters

The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702).