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Charles Leslie (July 1650 – 13 April 1722) was an Anglican nonjuring divine. ==Life== He was the son of John Leslie (1571-1671), bishop of Raphoe and afterwards of Clogher, born in July 1650 in Dublin, and educated at Enniskillen school and Trinity College, Dublin. Going to England he read law for a time, but soon turned his attention to theology, and took orders in 1680. In 1687 he became chancellor of the cathedral of Connor and a justice of the peace. He began a long career of public controversy by responding in public disputation at Monaghan to the challenge of the Roman Catholic bishop of Clogher. Although a vigorous opponent of Roman Catholicism, Leslie was a firm supporter of the Stuart dynasty, and, having declined at the Glorious Revolution to take the oath to William and Mary, he was on this account deprived of his benefice. In 1689 the growing troubles in Ireland induced him to withdraw to England, where he employed himself for the next twenty years in writing various controversial pamphlets in favor of the nonjuring cause, and in numerous polemics against the Quakers, Jews, Socinians and Roman Catholics, and especially in that against the Deists with which his name is now most commonly associated. He had the keenest scent for every form of heresy and was especially zealous in his defence of the sacraments. In 1704 Leslie started his weekly periodical ''The Observator'' (1704-9), changing its name to ''The Rehearsal of Observator'' in 1705 and then to ''The Rehearsal''. In this work he expounded his Jacobite political principles and attacked the Whiggish and Dissenting views of John Tutchin's ''Observator'' (founded 1702) and Daniel Defoe's ''Review'' (1704–13). A warrant having been issued against him in 1710 for his pamphlet ''The Good Old Cause, or Lying in Truth'', he resolved to quit England and to accept an offer made by the Pretender (with whom he had previously been in frequent correspondence) that he should reside with him at Bar-le-Duc. After the failure of the Stuart cause in 1715, Leslie accompanied his patron into Italy, where he remained until 1721, in which year, having found his sojourn amongst Roman Catholics extremely unpleasant, he sought and obtained permission to return to his native country. He died at Glaslough, Monaghan, on the 13 April 1722. His grandson was Charles Leslie MP, whose son in turn was John Leslie, Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh.〔(Leslie Genealogy )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Leslie (nonjuror)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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