Author: [SEXBY (Edward) and TITUS (Silius)]:
Title: Traicte Politique compose par William Allen, Et traduit nouvellement en françois, Où il est prouvé par l'exemple de Moyse, et par d'autres, tirés hors de l'escriture, que Tuer un Tyran 'titulo vel exercitio', n'est pas un meurtre.
Description: Lugduni no publisher, 1658. 160, 101 x 69 mms., pp. 172, early 19th century quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt spine; some slight wear to binding, but a very good copy, with old French bookseller's catalogue entry on front paste-down end-paper. The imprint is false, and the work was probably printed in Paris in 1792 or 1793. It derives from a pamphlet published in England in 1657 entitled Killing Noe Murder and often attributed to Edward Sexby (1616 - 1658) and with the assistance of Silius Titus (1623 - 1704), using the name of Sexby's former fellow agitator William Allen C. H. Firth, in "Killing No Murder," published in English Historical Review (1902) notes that there is "some evidence on behalf of both claimants." Imprisoned in the Tower in 1657, Sexby claimed authorship of the pamphlet, though after the Restoration it was attributed entirely to Titus. It was translated into French and published in Lyon 1658, and the translation was attributed to Jacques Carpentier de Marigny.

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