# A Third Letter for Toleration continues the Proast controversy in print

Date: 1692

## The fact

In 1692 A Third Letter for Toleration continued [Locke](/people/john-locke)’s printed controversy with Jonas Proast. It is a dated third instrument, not the 1689 first Letter and not the 1690 Second Letter. John Locke’s documented role is: He published a third, longer public letter after Proast replied again. The controversy is shared; the 1692 text is his. Do not merge 1689, 1690, and 1692 into one Letter row. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. John Locke's documented role is: He published a third, longer public letter after Proast replied again. The controversy is shared; the 1692 text is his.

## Context

Proast had answered the Second Letter. The Third is long, public, and still not a statute. Later fourth-letter fragments are unfinished and are not this 1692 book. Gutenberg HTML is access, not 1692 type. Named others on the file: Jonas Proast, printers, and later collected-works editors share the controversy’s survival. The public setting is the file around 1692-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. The instrument stays A Third Letter for Toleration continues the Proast controversy in print. The setting of A Third Letter for Toleration continues the Proast controversy in print is the public file around 1692-01-01. 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

SEP’s toleration entry and Gutenberg’s Letter cluster independently distinguish the 1692 Third Letter. Official: A Third Letter for Toleration — later public English cluster (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772; Project Gutenberg). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke on Toleration, Third Letter (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 Third Letter for Toleration — later public English cluster (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772; Project Gutenberg). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke on Toleration, Third Letter (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-toleration/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: A Third Letter for Toleration — later public English cluster (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Improving minority-rights path: continued public argument against religious coercion. Direct on the 1692 text. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated third instalment kept coercive-religion arguments under public rebuttal. 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 merge 1689, 1690, and 1692 into one Letter row. Mixed effects of A Third Letter for Toleration continues the Proast controversy in print are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 1692 Third Letter. Not established: that Parliament enacted it, or that 2001 SEP is the letter. Established: a sourced public record of A Third Letter for Toleration continues the Proast controversy in print under 1692-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of A Third Letter for Toleration continues the Proast controversy in print under 1692-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of A Third Letter for Toleration continues the Proast controversy in print. Naming John Locke does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1692-01-01 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-third-letter-1692