(HOBBES) [EACHARD, John]. The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion enquired into. In a Letter to R.L. The tenth edition. London: printed for E. Blagrave. 1696.

(HOBBES) [EACHARD, John]. The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion enquired into. In a Letter to R.L. The tenth edition. London: printed for E. Blagrave. 1696.

144 pp., bound with Some Observations upon the Answer to an Enquiry into the Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy. With some Additions. In a Second Letter to R.L. By the same Author. The sixth edition. London: printed for E. Blagrave. 1696. [x], 188 pp., bound with Mr. Hobbs's State of Nature considered: in a Dialogue between Philautus and Timothy. To which are added Five Letters, from the Author of the Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy. The fourth edition, corrected by the Author. London: printed for E. Blagrave. 1696. [xvi], 247 pp. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked.

'The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy …' .... brims over with wit and humour, had a rapid sale, and passed through many editions. The author represents the contempt with which the clergy were generally regarded as being in great measure due to a wrong method of education or the poverty of some of the inferior clergy. .... Eachard reply to the first of his assailants in 'Some Observations upon the Answer .…' D.N.B. 'Mr. Hobbs's State of Nature considered' is Eachard's reply to 'Leviathan'. Wing E55, E63, E59.