Letters received by Sir William Simpson from John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, and others. 1707-1723

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Letters received by Sir William Simpson from John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, and others. 1707-1723

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/9624573435

A collection of letters.

1 volume (15 letters)

eng,

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections

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Trenchard, John, 1662-1723

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Trenchard was a gentleman in easy circumstances living near Bristol, who wrote controversial pamphlets advocating reform of church and state. In 1719 he met Thomas Gordon (born in Scotland in the 1690's), another reforming Whig; Gordon became his amanuensis. Together they founded the London Journal and published in it the extremely controversial and anonymous letters signed Cato from November 5, 1720 to July 27, 1723 (when the government took over the Journal in September 1722, Cato...