George Harbin, Copy of Thomas Browne’s Answer to a pamphlet by Bishop Stillingfleet. English, c. 1744, or earlier

George Harbin, of Emmanuel and Jesus Colleges, antiquary and non-juror (d. 1744): ‘A Copy of an answer to a 4to Pamphlet, written and published, soon after the Revolution by Bishop [Edward] Stillingfleet [1635-99], with this Title: No Necessity of a Separation upon account of the Oaths. This answer was written by the Reverend Mr Thomas Brown, sometime Fellow of St John’s College in Cambridge, and is here transcribed from the Original written with his own hand. It is somewhat defective at the beginning and end.’ (fo. ir). The work in question, by Thomas Browne (d. 1741), Fellow of St John’s and a non-juror, was eventually published posthumously as An answer to a discourse published by Bishop Stillingfleet, soon after the Revolution, intitled, the unreasonableness of a new separation, etc. (London, 1749). A copy of this book is at SJC, O.10.21. The present text begins at p. 12 of the printed edition, and ends at p. 190 (out of 196). There are other variations. Stillingfleet’s original pamphlet was first published London, 1689 (Wing S5584).