ABSTRACT
Given that this king seemed intent upon securing the rights of Catholics in government, as well as their liberty at large, the issue of Transubstantiation became central to the political discourse of the turbulent 1680s and, ultimately, in the events leading to the Glorious Revolution of 1689. To write against Transubstantiation at this time was, quite simply, to write in defence of true Protestantism, while to defend that most Catholic of doctrines would be seen as unfeasibly unpatriotic, at best, and, at worst, something approaching treacherous.7 The
Miller, Popery and Politics in England, 1660-1688 (London: Cambridge University Press, 1973); J. P. Kenyon, The Popish Plot (London: Heinemann, 1972); and Richard L. Greaves, Secrets of the Kingdom: British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-89 (Stamford, California: Stanford University Press, 1992).
