(Vol. v., p. 105.)
J. Y. makes an inquiry as to the author of the _Character of a True
Churchman_, printed 1711. Your correspondent will do me good service by
stating the size, and giving the first few words, of his tract. In 1702,
or perhaps in the preceding year, Richard West, D.D., Fellow of Magd.
Coll. Oxford, and prebendary of Winchester, published _The True
Character of a Churchman, showing the False Pretences to that Name_, one
sheet in quarto, no date, of which I have two editions; and it was
reprinted in the Somers' _Tracts_: "It is commonly observed," &c. This
was answered by Sacheverell in _The Character of a Low Churchman_, 4to.
1702: "It cannot but be visible," &c. And in the same year there was an
edition of both these characters printed, paragraph by paragraph, the
original character and the reply: London, for A. Baldwin.
I have also _The Character of a True Church of England Man_, a single
sheet in 4to.: London, by D. Edwards for N. C. 1702: "Next to the name
Christian." And _The True Churchman and Loyal Subject_: London, for J.
Morphew, 1710, 8vo. pp. 168.: "The name of the church in whose communion
I am," &c. Is this the same with J. Y.'s book with another title?