Leighton Library has 1749 edition of 7-volume "History of the Popes" by Archibald Bower

The Leighton Library has a 1749 edition of the controversial 7-volume "History of the Popes" by Scottish historian Archibald Bower, born #OnThisDay 17 January 1686. He was noted for his complicated and varying religious faith (by the end of his life it appeared he had changed religion three times!)The book criticised the power of the Catholic Church using historical research, at a moment when that