Preservative against Popery (also Preservation against Popery) is a name commonly given to a collection of anti-Catholic works published in 1738 by Edmund Gibson. It drew largely on the literature of the "Romish Controversy" of the 1680s, in which Church of England controversialists made a case against what they saw as a present threat from Catholicism. The original edition was in three folio volumes.[1]
John Cumming made an edition in the 1840s. In 18 volumes, it collected up extra tracts.[2] The publication was supported by the British Reformation Society, part of the reaction to Tractarianism.[3]
| Volume | Contents | |
|---|---|---|
| I[4] | Nicholas Stratford, William Clagett, Gilbert Burnet, William Cave or Thorp, Roger Altham | |
| II[5] | George Hickes, Gregory Hascard, Burnet, Henry Wharton, William Payne | |
| III[6] | William Lloyd, Simon Patrick, Nathaniel Resbury, Samuel Freeman, William Sherlock, "Popish Notes" (against Robert Bellarmine: Sherlock, Freeman, Simon Patrick, John Williams, Edward Fowler, Thorp, Payne, Claggett, John Scott, Thomas Lynford) | |
| IV[7] | Thomas Tenison, Resbury, Clagett, Richard Kidder, Stratford, Robert Grove, Clement Ellis or Anthony Ellys, Luke de Beaulieu, Henry Maurice, Sherlock | |
| V[8] | Simon Patrick, George Tully or Thomas Tully, Hutchinson and Clagett, Edward Stillingfleet, Williams, Sherlock, Kidder, Stratford | |
| VI[9] | Grove, Fowler, Sherlock, William Wake, Payne, Edward Gee and Kidder, Williams | |
| VII[10] | Scott, Freeman, Clagett, Daniel Whitby, Thomas Comber | |
| VIII[11] | Comber, Gee, William Stanley, Stillingfleet, Peter Allix, Clagett, Payne | |
| IX[12] | Payne, Clagett, John Patrick, Stillingfleet, Williams | |
| X[13] | Wake, Payne, John Goodman, Lynford, Allix, John Gascarth, Stillingfleet | |
| XI[14] | Wake, John Bramston, Sherlock, Stillingfleet | |
| XII[15] | Lloyd, Wake | |
| XIII[16] | Wake, Williams, Stillingfleet, Clagett | |
| XIV[17] | Clagett, Sherlock, Altham, Samuel Gardiner | |
| XV[18] | Robert Jenkin, Comber, William Fleetwood | |
| XVI[19] | Simon Patrick, Hicks?, Tenison, Clagett | |
| XVII[20] | Lord Burleigh, John Rawlett, Joseph Hall | |
| XVIII[21] | Biographical |
Cumming, Richard Paul Blakeney and Martin Wilson Foye then edited a Supplement to the edition of Cumming, again for the British Reformation Society. It was in eight volumes.[22]