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Trade Paperback. 39 pages. Thomas Gordon of Kircudbright (1691-1750) was a Scottish writer and Commonwealthman. He wrote condemning corruption and lack of morality within the British political and religious systems. With John Trenchard he published Cato's Letters and the Independent Whig, both influential in their period. Third edition. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Extracted from a larger work. On front free endpaper in contemporary hand: 'This is a sharp invective against clerical abuses & incroachmentson the laity, addressed to Dr. Gibson, Bishop of London, author of the famous Codex of English Canon Law, also by Mr. Gordon, who under Mr. Trenchard's direction published in weekly papers both Cato's Letters and the Independent Whig.'.