Killing no Murder: Briefly Discoursed in Three Questions

Later leather backed boards, worn, front cover detached. Original pamphlet browned and worn at the edges, first three and final two pages trimmed at the lower right, just touching the gloss on the second to last page, but no other text; otherwise intact. [4],27,[1]pp Written by Edward Sexby under the pseudonym William Allen and often attributed to Colonel Titus. At one time a parliamentarian and involved in the capture of Charles in 1647 he later became disaffected with Cromwell and wrote the pamphlet Killing No Murder in 1657, arguing that the murder of a tyrant was no murder. He was captured in 1657 on a return visit to England to instigate a rebellion, was interrogated by Cromwell and imprisoned in the tower of London where he died the next year, 1658. Originally published in 1657, it was reincarnated during the Glorious Revolution. Provenance: Peter Laslett (label dated 14 July, 1956, Trinity Colege Cambridge on pastedown). Laslett was a prominent public intellectual and historian, author of The World We Have Lost: England Before the Industrial Age. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Politics & Government. Inventory No: 045450. …