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''The Orthodox Churchman's Magazine'' was an English
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monthly, appearing from 1801 to 1808. It was launched in March 1801, as
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resigned from government over Catholic emancipation, and took an anti-Catholic editorial line. It was initially edited by William Hamilton Reid. The ''Magazine'' was hostile to deists, Latitudinarians, Methodists and Unitarians, and its tone was set from the first issue by the High Church views of William Stevens.


Contributors

Contributors included: * William Hales, writing as "Inspector"; * Edward Pearson; *
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; * John Rendle; and * Thomas Thirlwall.


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