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Research Article| December 01 2022 Recent Articles* The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats (2022) 55 (1-2): 1–50. https://doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.55.1-2.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Recent Articles. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 1 December 2022; 55 (1-2): 1–50. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.55.1-2.0001 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats Search Advanced Search The term “freeholder” was applied in the eighteenth century to the possessor of real property worth forty shillings or more. The most significant consequence of this status was the ability to vote (men only, of course). As Smith shows, the concept of the freeholder was central to “discourses of property, patriotism and independence.” Smith focuses on three writers of “partisan print” with divergent views on the nature of “relationships between individuals and the state”: Francis Atterbury, Joseph Addison, and Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke. (It might have been interesting to assess all instances of “freeholder” in ECCO, but that would involve almost 5,000 hits.)For Francis Atterbury in the Address to the Freeholders of England (1714), the freeholder signifies “the good Englishman, whose property invests him in the nation.” He is “also intrinsically Tory” for Atterbury, who was making a “distraught attempt” to rally that party after the collapse of... Issue Section: Recent Articles You do not currently have access to this content.