Andrew Marvell’s An Account of the Growth of Popery, and Arbitrary Government in England appeared in the fall of 1677. It bore the imprint Amsterdam, beyond the reach of the censors; in fact, it was printed in London. It proclaimed; There has now for divers Years a Design been carried on, to change the Lawful Government of England into an Absolute Tyranny, and to Convert the Established Protestant Religion into down-right Popery: than both which, nothing can be more Destructive or contrary to the Interest and Happiness, to the Constitution and Being of the King and Kingdom.
Steen et al. (Sat,) studied this question.