Robert Manning (1655 in
Amsterdam
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– 4 March 1731 in
Ingatestone Hall
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) was an English Roman Catholic priest and controversialist.
Biography
Born to an English mother and Dutch father, Robert Manning entered the
English College, Douai
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in 1668, and later taught humanities and philosophy there. Ordained priest in 1690, he was sent to the English mission in 1692, becoming chaplain to
Lord Petre and other members of the Petre family at
Ingatestone Hall
Ingatestone Hall is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Essex, England. It is located outside the village of Ingatestone, approximately south west of Chelmsford and north east of London. The house was built by Sir William Petre, a ...
.
[Thompson Cooper]
‘Manning, Robert (1655–1731)’
rev. G. Bradley, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Jan 2009
Stylish, learned, and dialectically convincing, Manning produced a string of polemical works that rank him as one of the leading figures in that silver age of English Catholic controversial writing.
He died in Essex on 4 March 1731.
Works
* ''Modern Controversy'', 1720
* ''The Case Stated between the Church of Rome and the Church of England''
''Volume 1''''Volume 2''
, 1721.
''The Reform'd Churches Proved Destitute of a Lawful Ministry: to Which is Added the Antiquity of the Doctrine Call'd Popery''
Rouen, 1722.
''England's Conversion and Reformation Compared''
Antwerp: R.C. and C.F., 1725
* ''Moral Entertainments'', 1742
''The Celebrated Answer to the Rev. C. Lesley's Case Stated, Between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: Printed Word for Word, and Refuted Sentence After Sentence ''
Dublin: R. Coyne, 1839.
''The Shortest Way to End Disputes About Religion: in Two Parts''
Boston: P. Donahoe, 1855.
References
Further reading
*C. J. Mitchell, 'Robert Manning and Thomas Howlatt: English Catholic Printing in the Early Eighteenth Century', '' Recusant History'' 17:1 (1984), pp. 38–47
1655 births
1731 deaths
17th-century English Roman Catholic priests
18th-century English Roman Catholic priests
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