NEW!....

A self-selected Church-State elite persecutes dissenters.....
     While trying to impose its views on the Citizenry.

So an outspoken Quaker criticizes the Massachusetts Establishment
     for its religious persecution and intolerance, its hypocrisy,
     and its management of the Witchcraft Crisis.

But though he is arrested and tried for seditious libel, he is
     acquitted by a Puritan jury that disregards the Court's
     direction to convict and agrees with his principal argument:

        Governments and Courts Have No Right to Suppress
                Expressions of Religious Belief

This triumph of an Individual's Liberty over a coercive Theocracy is recounted and analyzed in

• Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law
• Author, The History and Genealogy of the Maules, and numerous tax and other books
• Recipient, 1993 BNA Tax Management Distinguished Author Award

• Republication of the offending treatise and Thomas Maule's other three extant writings (kept in rare book collections and available only in microform):
  • Truth Held Forth and Maintained
  • New-England Pesecutors (sic) Mauled With their own Weapons
  • An Abstract of the Letter to Cotton Mather
  • For the Service of Truth
• Rev. Joseph R. Maule's previously unpublished M.A. Thesis, Basis for the Maule Characterizations in the Romance, House of the Seven Gables.

• Preface
• Introduction
• Puritan-Quaker Hostility
• Thomas Maule: His Origins and Settlement in Salem
• A Most Controversial Book
• The Legal Proceedings
• The Controversy Continues
• The Development of Suppression of Expression
• The Significance of Thomas Maule's Trial
• Preservation of Thomas Maule's Legacies
• Conclusion
• Author's Epilogue
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index