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-MILTON’S’

. TENURE OF KINGSi

ANI) MAGISTRATES

EDITED BY WILLIAM, TALBOT ALLISON

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YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
ALBERT S. COOK, Eprror.

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THE TENURE OF KINGS AND
MAGISTRATES

BY

JOHN MILTON

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY

WILLIAM TALBOT ALLISON, B.D., PaD.,

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH,
WESLEY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA,
WINNIPEG

A Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate Schoo! of Yale
University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Failosophy

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PREFACE

It is not a little surprising, when one considers the
amount of attention that has been bestowed on Milton's
poetry, that his prose tracts, with a very few excep-
tions, have lain so neglected in recent times. The
present edition is an atte:),t to remedy this neglect.
so far as one of these treaiuses is concerned. Others,
it is hoped, will follow; indeed, The Ready and Easy
Way to estallish a Free Commonwealth has already been
taken in hand.

A portion of the expense of printing ‘his book has
been borne by the Modern Language lub of Yale
University, from funds placed at its ¢ posal by the
generosity of Mr. George E. Dimock, of Elizabeth,
New Jersey, a graduate of Yale in the Class of 1874.

Asert S. Cook.

YALE UNIVERSITY,
January, 191.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

XI.

XII

. DATE AND AUTHORSHIP
|. HIsTORICAL SITUATION .

|. PURPOSE

. LEADING IDEAS

. THE COVENANT

|. THE PRESBYTERIAN DIVINES .

|. USE OF SCRIPTURE

» BACKGROUND OF PoLiTicalL THOUGHT
. SOURCES

» STYLE

ORTHOGRAPHY

. A CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM

THE TENURE OF KINGS AND MAGISTRATES
NOTES Py oor Dene roca

THE HISTORY OF TYRANNICIDE
BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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INTRODUCTION.