I. Editions of The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.

i. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: Proving, That it
is Lawfull, and hath been held so through all Ages, for
any who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant,
or wicked KING, and after due conviction, to depose
and put him to death; if the ordinary MAGISTRATE
have neglected, or deny’d to doe it. And that they who,
of late, so much blame Deposing, are the Men that did
it themselves. The Author, J. i. London, Printed by
Matthew Simons, at the Gilded Lyon in Aldersgate Street,
1649,

. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates proving, That it is
Lawfull and hath been held so through all Ages, for any
who have the Power to call to account a Tyrant, or
wicked KING, and after due Conviction, to depose, and
put him to Death; if the ordinary MAGISTRATE have
neglected, or deny’d to doe it. And that they, who, of
late, so much blame Deposing, are the Men that did it
themselves. Published now the second Time with some
additions, and many Testimonies a/so added out of the best
and learnedest among PROTESTANT Divines assertin,
the position of this ) The Author J. M. LONDON,
Printed by Matthew Simmons, next doore to the Gil-Lyon
in Aldersgate Street, 1650.

[Some copies of this edition have the following variation
in the title,—‘ Printed by Matthew Simmons, at the Gilded
Lyon in Aldersgate Street, 1649].

. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Originally written
by the Celebrated John Milton. Now corrected, and
republished with Additional Notes and Observations; and
particularly recommended, at This Time, to the Perusal
of the Men of Ireland. Dublin 1784,

[This reprint, on cheap paper, was issued in the form
of a 16mo tract, with a short introduction by the anonymous
editor. He makes a plea for the sovereignty of the people,
and quotes as authorities Strabo, Tacitus, Hotman, Hoadley,
Burnet, Locke, Hutcheson, and ‘the Author of the North
Britain’ The notes are few and of no value].

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174 The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

4, The Rights of Nations to depose Their Kings, an Abridge-
ment of The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Ed. William
G. Lewis. London, circa 1800.

5. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, appended to Milton's
History of Britain. Ed. Francis Maseres. London 1818.

[A reprint of Birch’s version of 1753).