A rare pro-Jacobite pamphlet by the Episcopalian clergyman William Harper writing under the pseudonym Philalethes and dated 15 October 1745. ESTC records five issues printed in Edinburgh 1745 but this is the only Aberdeen printing of that year and includes A letter to the Archbishop of York: humbly offering to his Grace's solution some doubts and scruples suggested by his late speech to the grand meeting of the County of York, called to subscribe an association for supporting the German Government in England. Harper, of Boharm, Banffshire, was chaplain to the Earl of Huntly and appointed minister of Old St. Paul's, Edinburgh on 9 March 1735. His assistant was Robert Forbes, later Bishop Forbes, author of the Lyon in Mourning.

Ingram, Mary E. A Jacobite stronghold of the church. Being the story of Old St. Paul's, Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1907.

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