The Rector Detected

• imprint_number: 1764.007
• title: The rector detected: being a just defense of the Two-penny act, against the artful misrepresentations of the Reverend John Camm, rector of York-Hampton, in his Single and distinct view. Containing also a plain confutation of his several hints, as a specimen of the justice and charity of Colonel Landon Carter. By Landon Carter, of Sabine-hall.
• sequence_number: 7
• year: 1764
• place_issued: Williamsburg
• issuing_press: Joseph Royle and Co.
• author: Carter, Landon, 1710-1778.
• notes: Signed by Landon Carter, October 1763, Sabine Hall.
  Second pamphlet in a two-year long exchange over the legitimacy of the so-called "Two Penny Acts" – through which the Virginia legislature reduced the salaries of the colony's Anglican clergy – between the Rev. John Camm and Virginia planters Landon Carter and Richard Bland. This tract was issued in response to Camm's A single and distinct view of the act, vulgarly entitled, the Two-penny act; containing an account of it’s [!] beneficial and wholesome effects on York-Hampton parish. In which is exhibited a specimen of Col. Landon Carter’s justice and charity; as well as of Col. Richard Bland’s salus populi. (Annapolis: Jonas Green, 1763), the first in the series.
  
  
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