Books burned by Authority: Britain and Ireland, 1689 to 1900

Primary source is: Books Condemned to be Burnt, by James Anson Farrer [full text]
Date	Author	Title	Condemned by	Outcome
1691	Bury, Arthur [this blog]	The Naked Gospel [Full Text]	Parliament; Oxford University	Ejected from post
1693, Dec 8	Freke, William	A Brief but Clear Confutation of the Trinity	House of Lords	Fined £500, recanted
1696	Toland, John	Christianity not mysterious [Full text]	Irish Parliament	Burnt by public hangman before the Parliament House Gate, Dublin, also in the open street before the Town House Fled, after arrest ordered, impoverished, continued to write
1697, March 17	James Drake	Mr Bertie's Case, with some remarks on the Judgment therein given	House of Lords	Book burnt at Mercat Cross, Edinburgh Also prosecuted for later writings (1702, 1703 & 1705).
1698	Molyneux, William	The case of Ireland's being bound by acts of Parliament in England stated [full text]	Parliament	Condemned as seditious and burnt by the public hangman
1700	Asgill, John	An Argument Proving, That according to the Covenant of Eternal Life revealed in the Scriptures, Man may be translated from hence into that Eternal Life, without passing through Death, altho the Humane Nature of Christ himself could not be thus translated till he had passed through Death [full text]	Expelled from both English & Irish Parliaments	Expelled by Irish Pment 10/10/1703, Condemned by English Pment 1707 (book burned by both?) Thereafter lived peacably in Fleet debtors' prison
1700 to 1704	Walter Herries [or Harris] writing as 'Philo-Caledon'	1. A Defence of the Scots abdicating Darien, including an answer to the Defence of the Scots Settlement there [full text] 2. A Short Vindication of the same. see also: Caledonia; or, the Pedlar turned Merchant [full text]	Scottish Parliament	Burnt by the hangman. Lords of the Treasury offered a reward of £6000 Scots for his arrest.
1702	Emlyn, Thomas	Tried for blasphemy for "A Humble Enquiry into the Account of Jesus Christ" [full text]		Fine of £1,000, 1 year in prison. To remain in prison until the fine was paid. Fine reduced to £70 on appeal. Said to have been the first person to call himself 'unitarian'.
1702	Drake, James (wiki)	1. History of the Last Parliament 2. Tom Double, returned out of the Country; or, The True Picture of a modern Whig 3. Dr. Blinke's "violent" sermon, preached on January 30th, 1701, before the Lower House of Convocation; and 4. A pamphlet, inviting over the Elector of Hanover. In the same month. Animadversions upon the two last 30th of January Sermons: one preached to the Honourable House of Commons, the other to the Lower House of Convocation.	House of Lords: Resolved that it was "a malicious, villainous libel, containing very many reflections on King Charles I., of ever-blessed memory, and tending to the subversion of the Monarchy.	Books condemned to be burnt by the hangman.
1702	John Clendon	Tractatus Philosophico-Theologicus de Persona (on the Trinity)		[full text not found]
1703	Drake, James (wiki)	Historia Anglo-Scotia: an impartial History of all that happened between the Kings and Kingdoms of England and Scotland from the beginning of the Reign of William the Conqueror to the Reign of Queen Elizabeth	Scottish Parliament	Burnt by the public hangman at Mercat Cross
1703, July	Defoe, Daniel (wiki)	The shortest way with dissenters [full text]	H of Commons	Burnt by common hangman. Found "guilty of a seditious libel, and sentenced to pay a fine of 200 marks to the Queen, stand three times in the pillory, be imprisoned during the Queen's pleasure, and find sureties for his good behaviour for seven years." Daniel Defoe, by William Minto, p28
1704	Attwood, William (wiki)	Superiority and Direct Dominion of the Imperial Crown of England over the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland, the true Foundation of a Compleat Union reasserted also The Scots Patriot Unmasked [announcement here] [neither text found]	Scottish Parliament	Burnt by common hangman.
1704	Coward, William	The Grand Essay: or, a vindication of reason, and religion, against impostures of philosophy [full text]	House of Commons	Burnt in Palace yard (18/3/1704) "ruinous fine and imprisonment" & 3 days in pillory. He later brought out a second edition.
1705	Drake, James (wiki)	Memorial of the Church of England [full text]	Royal Proclamation	Publicly burnt by hangman "Drake enjoys the distinction of having contributed a book to be burnt in each of the three kingdoms."
1706	Arbuthnot, John?	Queries to the Presbyterian noblemen and gentlemen, barons, burgesses, ministers and commoners in Scotland, who are for the sceme of an incorporating union with England according to the articles agreed upon by the commissioners of both nations. (1706). Place of publication not identified. [full text]	Edinburgh Parliament [Sentence]
1706	Crowd opposed to union	Articles of Union (Scotland and England)	Dumfries
1706 (1709)	Tindal, Matthew	Christianity as old as the Creation (1730) [Deist] [full text] A defence of the rights of the Christian Church, against a late visitation sermon, intitled, The rights of the clergy in the Christian Church asserted ; preach'd at Newport Pagnel in the county of Bucks, by W. Wotton. B.D. and made publick at the command and desire of the Bishop of Lincoln, and the clergy of the Deanerys of Buckingham and Newport. London: publisher not identified. [full text]	House of Commons	1710, burned at the Royal Exchange along with Sacheverall's sermon.
1707	Humphrey, John Publications	A Draught for a National Church accommodation, whereby the subjects of North and South Britain, however different in their judgments concerning Episcopacy and Presbytery, may yet be united (1709) -possibly, no record of the name of the pamphlet [full text]	English Parliament	Burnt by common hangman
1710	Sacheverell, Henry	Sermon: The Perils of False Brethren, in Church, and State (at St Paul's Carthedral, on 5th November 1710, an annual event to commemorate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot.) [full text]	House of Commons	Suspended from Parliament for 2 years Burned at the Royal Exchange with Tindal's Christianity as old as creation
1727-1729	Woolston, Thomas	A discourse on the miracles of our Saviour (6 vols.) [full text: Vol. 1, Vol.2, Vol.3, Vol.4, Vol.5, Vol.6]		Sentenced 28 November 1729. £100 fine for the first four volumes imprisonment till paid, and 1 year in prison. To give security for his good behaviour during his life. He failed to raise the security and remained in prison until his death 27 January, 1733.
1711	Boyse. Joseph	A Clear Account of the Ancient Episcopacy, [full text] Proving It to have been Parochial, and therefore inconsistent with the present Model of Diocesan Episcopacy. ... And Mr. Boyse's Sermon concerning the Scriptural Bishop, and the Postscript to it are defended against Mr. Drury's Vindication of his Answer to it. To which are added, Some Reflections on Mr. Whiston's Citation of Clemens's Epistle, in Favour of the [pretended] Constitutions of the Apostles. London: Printed for John Lawrence, at the Angel in the Poultry, and Nath. Cliffe and Daniel Jackson, at the Bible and Three Crowns near Mercers-Chappel.	Irish House of Lords	Burnt by the common hangman
10 June 1712	William Fleetwood, Bishop of St Asaph	Free Sermons (May 1712) (the Preface was condemned) [full text in The works of ... William Fleetwood, Volume 1, ]	Parliament	public burning by Parliament, but, Reprinted as No. 384 of The Spectator and widely read.
1715	William Atwood	The Scotch Patriot Unmasked [full text not found]		The last work to be burnt at Mercat Cross
12/2/1720	Hall, Joseph	A sober reply to Mr. Higgs' merry arguments from the Light of Nature for the tritheistick doctrine of the Trinity, with a Postcript relating to the Rev. Dr. Waterland [full text]	House of Lords
1750	Howard, L. (chaplain to the Prince of Wales)	Constitutional queries, earnestly recommended to the serious consideration of every true Briton [full text]
1756	King, George (a bookseller) Attributed to Lord Egmont, M.P., (opposition spokesman in Parliament)	forged and published a Royal speech—'His Majesty's most Gracious Speech to, both Houses of Parliament on Thursday December 2nd, 1756 [full text]	Ordered to be burnt in New Palace Yard by the hangman on January 25th.	"a false, malicious, scandalous, infamous, and seditious libel, containing the most false, audacious, and abominable calumnies and indignities against his Majesty, and the most presumptuous and wicked insinuations that our laws, liberties, and properties, and the excellent constitution of this kingdom, were in danger under his Majesty's legal, mild, and gracious government" A reward of £1,000 failed to discover the author, printer, or publisher of this paper.
1763	Wilkes, J	North Briton No. 45. Wilkes, then member for Aylesbury, was, in spite of his privilege as a member, seized and imprisoned in the Tower. [Full Text, wiki]	To be burnt at the Royal Exchange by the common hangman. And so it was on the 3rd, but not without a riot,	seditious and obscene libels followed by c.40 law cases
1764, Feb	Brecknock, Timothy	Droit le Roy, or a Digest of the Rights and Prerogatives of the Imperial Crown of Great Britain [Full Text, wiki]	Burnt: Westminster Palace Yard Feb 25; & at the Exchange Feb 27	Commons: false & malicious work
1775	Beckett, T.	The present Crisis with regard to America Considered Journal of the House of Lords	consigned to the hangman	"a false, malicious and traiterous libel" Book burned 12 March 1775
1849	Froude	Nemesis of Faith [Full Text, wiki]	Burned by William Sewell, in Exeter College
1870s	Roman Catholic Priests	Burning Protestant Bibles	Ireland