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The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
''The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church'' is a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1702. Defoe was prompted to write the pamphlet by the increased hostility towards Dissenters in the wake of the accession of Queen Anne to the throne.
It is written in the same style as the Tory publications that attacked Dissenters, and was assumed by some people to be a genuine vindication of their view. The pamphlet raised embarrassing questions about the handling of the issue by the Tory ministry, and led to Defoe's arrest for seditious libel. His imprisonment, during which he fell into bankruptcy, was to have a lasting influence on his subsequent writings. In the years after his release, Defoe published several pamphlets that attempted to explain its purpose and his own views.
==Background==
In 1702, King William III died, and Queen Anne succeeded to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland. She was markedly less tolerant than William of the device known as "occasional conformity", whereby Dissenters could qualify as members of the Church of England—and thereby hold public office—by attending a church service once a year. Defoe was supportive of religious freedom, though he was critical of the device and considered it hypocrisy. He had written against it in a pamphlet entitled ''An enquiry into occasional conformity: Shewing that the dissenters are no way concern'd in it'' (1698)
In the same year, hostility towards Dissenters increased. A Bill against occasional conformity was passed through the House of Commons and debated in the Lords. Figures such as Henry Sacheverell, a High church clergyman, warned against Dissenters assuming positions of political power. His lead was followed by the Tory press, who published a number of sermons and pamphlets making similar arguments.〔Horsley 1976, p. 407.〕 In December, Defoe published his own pamphlet, ''The Shortest Way'', assuming the same stylistic conventions as the Sacheverell and the Tory publications.〔
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