# A Second Letter concerning Toleration is published in answer to Jonas Proast Date: 1690 ## The fact In 1690 A Second Letter concerning Toleration answered Jonas Proast’s argument for coercive religion. The dated sequel is not the 1689 Letter’s first publication and not the 1692 Third Letter. [John Locke](/people/john-locke)’s documented role is: He published a second public letter answering Proast’s attack on the 1689 Letter. Proast wrote the critique; Locke wrote the reply. Do not twin this with the 1689 Letter itself. A sequel answering Proast is a different instrument. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. John Locke's documented role is: He published a second public letter answering Proast’s attack on the 1689 Letter. Proast wrote the critique; Locke wrote the reply. ## Context Proast’s The Argument of the Letter concerning Toleration, Briefly Consider’d and Answer’d had already appeared. Locke’s reply keeps the public fight in print. Later collected volumes are not 1690 type. Exclusions in the first Letter remain on that other row. Named others on the file: Jonas Proast as antagonist, printers of the sequel, and later editors share the file. The public setting is the file around 1690-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. The instrument stays A Second Letter concerning Toleration is published in answer to Jonas Proast. The setting of A Second Letter concerning Toleration is published in answer to Jonas Proast is the public file around 1690-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. Driver [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts. ## Evidence and sources Gutenberg’s Letter cluster and SEP’s toleration entry independently mark the 1690 Second Letter as a sequel. Official: A Letter concerning Toleration and sequels — public English cluster (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772; Project Gutenberg). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke on Toleration, later letters (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-toleration/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: A Letter concerning Toleration and sequels — public English cluster (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772; Project Gutenberg). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke on Toleration, later letters (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-toleration/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official or archival record: A Letter concerning Toleration and sequels — public English cluster (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772; Project Gutenberg). ## Significance Improving minority-rights path: a public defence of the 1689 toleration argument. Direct on the sequel. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated sequel defended the 1689 toleration argument in public print against a restoration of coercive religion. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving. Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with the 1689 Letter itself. A sequel answering Proast is a different instrument. Mixed effects of A Second Letter concerning Toleration is published in answer to Jonas Proast are separate paths. ## What is established and what is not Established: a 1690 Second Letter against Proast. Not established: that the first Letter’s Catholic and atheist exclusions were thereby repealed. Established: a sourced public record of A Second Letter concerning Toleration is published in answer to Jonas Proast under 1690-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of A Second Letter concerning Toleration is published in answer to Jonas Proast under 1690-01-01. Shared responsibility is part of A Second Letter concerning Toleration is published in answer to Jonas Proast. Naming John Locke does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1690-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them. The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is protection-of-minority-rights. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. ## People - John Locke: https://factrail.ai/people/john-locke ## Drivers - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights ## Sources - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-toleration/ - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-second-letter-1690