Leslie, CHARLES

Leslie, CHARLES, nonjuring divine, was born at Dublin on the 17th July 1650, studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and, having taken orders in 1680, became chancellor of the cathedral of Connor in 1687. Deprived at the Revolution for declining the oath of allegiance, he retired to England and wrote against Papists, Deists, Socinians, Jews, and Quakers, as well as in support of the nonjuring interests. He went with the Pretender to Italy after 1715, but returned to Ireland in 1721, and died 13th April 1722. His Short and Easy Method with the Jews appeared in 1684; his Short and Easy Method with the Deists in 1694; he issued a collected edition of his Theological Works in two folio volumes in 1721 (new ed. 7 vols. 1832). See a Life by R. J. Leslie (1885).