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/></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Title_page" title="Title page">Title page</a> of the first printing (London: A. Baldwin, 1700)</figcaption></figure> <p><i><b>Reasons humbly offer'd for a Law to enact the Castration of Popish Ecclesiastic[k]s</b></i> is an anonymous <a href="/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom">anti-Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Quarto" title="Quarto">quarto</a> pamphlet published in London in 1700. The work has been disputedly attributed to <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Defoe" title="Daniel Defoe">Daniel Defoe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The book accuses the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_priests" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic priests">Roman Catholic priests</a> of practicing <a href="/wiki/Infanticide" title="Infanticide">infanticide</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sexual_immorality" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual immorality">sexual immorality</a>. Concluding that the priests are more <a href="/wiki/Lecherous" class="mw-redirect" title="Lecherous">lecherous</a> than ordinary men, the author suggests their punishment by enforced <a href="/wiki/Castration" title="Castration">castration</a>. Besides its <a href="/wiki/Anti-clericalism" title="Anti-clericalism">anti-clericalism</a>, the book also advocates for an alliance of the European <a href="/wiki/Protestants" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestants">Protestants</a> against the Catholic France of <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV" title="Louis XIV">Louis XIV</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Context">Context</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castration_of_Popish_Ecclesiastics&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Context"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The work is ostensibly very offensive in tone, but <a href="/wiki/G._C._Moore_Smith" title="G. C. Moore Smith">G. C. Moore Smith</a> thinks it might be an ironic satire in the manner of Defoe's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shortest_Way_with_the_Dissenters" title="The Shortest Way with the Dissenters">The Shortest Way with the Dissenters</a></i>, which promoted increased hostility towards another <a href="/wiki/Religious_minority" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious minority">religious minority</a> in England.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The author's broader purpose in this pamphlet was to advocate for a Protestant alliance in Europe against <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV" title="Louis XIV">Louis XIV</a>'s France.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summary">Summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castration_of_Popish_Ecclesiastics&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> As evidence of the wickedness of the Roman Catholic priests the author cites the authority of Foxe's <i><a href="/wiki/Acts_and_Monuments" class="mw-redirect" title="Acts and Monuments">Acts and Monuments</a></i> for accusations of <a href="/wiki/Infanticide" title="Infanticide">infanticide</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sexual_immorality" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual immorality">sexual immorality</a>. He holds that the <a href="/wiki/Celibacy" title="Celibacy">celibacy</a> of the priests was ordained by the "Romish Church" in order that they might have a firmer hold upon the women, and he adduces five main arguments in support of his assertion.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He argues that enforced <a href="/wiki/Chastity" title="Chastity">chastity</a> has made the priests more <a href="/wiki/Lecherous" class="mw-redirect" title="Lecherous">lecherous</a> than ordinary men, and that enforced <a href="/wiki/Castration" title="Castration">castration</a> may be the only cure to their immense sexual appetite.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To the crimes with which the priests are charged is added, in conclusion, the following accusation:<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>They not only corrupt the Morals of People themselves by such Practices and Principles as above mention'd, but bring over and encourage others to do it; particularly those Italians, &c. who sell and print <i><a href="/wiki/I_Modi" title="I Modi">Aretin's Postures</a></i>; and in order to debauch the Minds of Women, and to make them guilty of unnatural Crims [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] invent and sell 'em such things as Modesty forbids to name.</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Editions">Editions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castration_of_Popish_Ecclesiastics&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Editions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The work was reprinted in Dublin as <i>Reasons humbly offer'd to both houses of parliament, for a new Law to enact the castration or gelding of popish ecclasiastics, in this kingdom ... As the best way to prevent the growth of popery</i> (Dublin, 1710; price 3d; 4to. 16 pp.)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 19th century this pamphlet was reprinted by the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Protestant_Evangelical_Mission_and_Electoral_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Protestant Evangelical Mission and Electoral Union (page does not exist)">Protestant Evangelical Mission and Electoral Union</a> in a tract of 32 pages,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to which was added an Appendix containing the three following pieces: </p> <ol><li>An account, extracted from <i>The Times</i> of 16 May 1860, of the trial, at Turin, in that year, of the Carmelite priest, <a href="/wiki/Gurlino_(priest)" title="Gurlino (priest)">Gurlino</a>, who was condemned to seven years solitary confinement for having had sexual relations with a number of virgins.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 33 girls gave evidence against him.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The relations of a young girl found in her possession an obscene print, and insisted on her telling them from whom she had procured it.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The girl refused for some time, but eventually named her confessor.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She added that several of her friends had also received from Don Gurlino immoral books and prints and had been seduced by him.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>A Pastoral Address by the Bishop of London. Published A.D. 1751</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Facts connected with the Arrest of <a href="/wiki/William_Murphy_(lecturer)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Murphy (lecturer)">William Murphy</a> at Bolton, Lancashire, July 14, 1868</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castration_of_Popish_Ecclesiastics&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>National Library of Ireland</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>National Library of Australia</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Moore Smith 1929, pp. 64–6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Moore Smith 1929, p. 64.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Moore Smith 1929, pp. 64–5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ashbee 1879, pp. 208–11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Peakman 2003, p. 134.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fenning 1998, p. 117.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ashbee 1879, p. 211.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ashbee 1879, pp. 211–12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:02-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:02_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:02_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:02_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:02_11-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ashbee 1879, p. 212.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ashbee 1879, p. 212.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castration_of_Popish_Ecclesiastics&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em 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United States: University of Delaware Press; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. pp. 110, 195. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781611496536" title="Special:BookSources/9781611496536"><bdi>9781611496536</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Papist+Represented%3A+Literature+and+the+English+Catholic+Community%2C+1688%E2%80%931791&rft.place=United+States&rft.pages=110%2C+195&rft.pub=University+of+Delaware+Press%3B+The+Rowman+%26+Littlefield+Publishing+Group%2C+Inc.&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=9781611496536&rft.aulast=Carnes&rft.aufirst=Geremy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DNnkuDwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACastration+of+Popish+Ecclesiastics" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMoore1964" class="citation journal cs1">Moore, John Robert (1964). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/27714556">"Review: [<i>Defoe and the Nature of Man</i> by Maximillian E. Novak]"</a>. <i>The Journal of English and Germanic Philology</i>. <b>63</b> (4): 795–7. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/27714556">27714556</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Journal+of+English+and+Germanic+Philology&rft.atitle=Review%3A+%5BDefoe+and+the+Nature+of+Man+by+Maximillian+E.+Novak%5D&rft.volume=63&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=795-7&rft.date=1964&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F27714556%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Moore&rft.aufirst=John+Robert&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F27714556&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACastration+of+Popish+Ecclesiastics" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNovak1963" class="citation book cs1">Novak, Maximillian E. 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Great Britain: Oxford University Press. pp. 91, 163. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-811633-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-811633-2"><bdi>978-0-19-811633-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Defoe+and+the+Nature+of+Man&rft.place=Great+Britain&rft.pages=91%2C+163&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1963&rft.isbn=978-0-19-811633-2&rft.aulast=Novak&rft.aufirst=Maximillian+E.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D93VaAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACastration+of+Popish+Ecclesiastics" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStroope2017" class="citation book cs1">Stroope, Michael W. 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