Nathaniel Johnston

JOHNSTON, Nathaniel The Assurance of Abby and other Church-Lands in England to the Possessors, cleared from the Doubts and Arguments raised about the Danger of Resumption In answer to a Letter of a Person of Quality, London: Henry Hills, 1687. First Edition. Full leather binding (the boards original, the spine renewed). Gilt titles to the spine. Binding is a little rubbed to the edges but substantially sound. Owner's bookplate to the inside board for William Howard of Devon. Howard (1774-1860) was an early member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Previous owner's purchase comments to the front end paper. The text itself is clean and tidy, if a little darkened. "Purchased of Edward Lumley 27 Chancery Lane Thursday Septr 18. 1834. John Eyton." Lumley was a well known London bookseller. 160 by 95mm (6¼ by 3¾ inches). [viii], 1-206, i. pp who owns England's abbeys? More than 150 years after Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries, thousands of English families still owned what was Church land. The book takes up a question that worried them: if Catholicism came back, would the Church take that land back? In 1687 this was a real fear. England had a Catholic king, James II, who was promoting Catholics The author and printer were both Catholic loyalists, who were trying to reassure the public that the lands would stay with them. It all became irrelevant. Within a year the King had fled. Following a pamphlet by Sir William Coventry, Johnston published this work, which aimed to demonstrate that even if the Religious Orders were restored in England, the possessors of the church lands confiscated by Henry VIII could not be disturbed.

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