. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . a standing army, and four3^ears later produced a vigorous satire entitled The True horn English-man, a caustic reply to those who belittled the King on account ofhis Dutch descent. Besides winning him fame, this pamphlet pro-cured him Williams favour, and Defoe devoted himself henceforthto political journalism. He drew up the Legion memorial in 1701protesting against the imprisonment of the Kentish petitioners, whichgained him further prominence in Whig circles. When the Occa-sional Conformity Bill was introduced, he published an inq
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . a standing army, and four3^ears later produced a vigorous satire entitled The True horn English-man, a caustic reply to those who belittled the King on account ofhis Dutch descent. Besides winning him fame, this pamphlet pro-cured him Williams favour, and Defoe devoted himself henceforthto political journalism. He drew up the Legion memorial in 1701protesting against the imprisonment of the Kentish petitioners, whichgained him further prominence in Whig circles. When the Occa-sional Conformity Bill was introduced, he published an inquiry,in which he boldly deprecated any opposition to the measure onthe ground that no dissenter should go to church, and that it wastherefore desirable that weaker brethren should be prevented by attitude was resented as too thorough-going by his own party,but Defoe continued his original plan of campaign bj publishingThe Slwrtest Way with the Dissenters. This was ostensibly a vehe-ment demand for the extirpation of Nonconformists; and the Tories,.
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