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First and only edition. Attempts to revise the Book of Common Prayer in the wake of the 1689 Toleration Act found opposition in, among others, the Exeter clergyman Thomas Long. His Vox cleri, or, The Sense of the Clergy, concerning the making of Alterations in the established Liturgy (1690) received an immediate reply from the controversialist, William Payne (An Answer to Vox Cleri, 1690), who is in turn attacked here, point by point, albeit in a light-hearted way.

Aylmer was Payne’s publisher, and the ‘bundle’ is described at the end: ‘Sir, I thank you for your Coat and Badge; in return I have sent you a short Presbyterian Cloak, particolor’d, with Assent and Consent in the Red, and Abatements and Alterations in the Yellow. You have a Cap already; to make you complete, my Hen has just laid, and I have sent you an Egg; and so I thank you for your Letter, which the oftner I read, the fuller it convinces me of what you insinuate … that ‘tis always the soft side of a Man’s Head which inclines him to unite with the Dissenters’ (p. 15).

ESTC R200563; Wing T 1601.

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