A ‘Protestant’ Approach to Colonization as envisaged in John Lockman's Protestant Martyrology (1760)

Presented in a question and answer form, the History of the Cruel Sufferings of the Protestants, and Others, by Popish Persecutions, by Hogarth’s friend John Lockman, was mainly designed for use in schools and as a conversational topic when Protestant families gathered in the evenings. Written at the time of the last Jacobite uprising but published only in 1760 in the aftermath of the English conquest of Quebec, Lockman’s History was an attempt to contrast, not without contradictions, his highly emotional accounts of Catholic endeavours to establish their religion by “the most barbarous practices” with a “Protestant” approach to colonisation.