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[SEXBY, Edward and Silas TITUS]. ~ Traicté politique, composé par William Allen, anglois, 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 exercition, n’est pas un meurtre. ‘Lugduni. Anno M. DC. LVIIII’, [but Paris, 1793].
18mo (115 × 80 mm), pp. 72. Two small wormholes to gutter of first 20 pages. Uncut in contemporary mottled boards, manuscript spine label. Rubbed, but a good copy.
A very scarce Revolutionary imprint of this classic English apology for tyrannicide, issued against Robespierre during the Terror.
It is a translation by the abbé de Marigny, of Killing no Murder which had first appeared in English in Holland in 1657 and in French the following year (apparently to encourage the assassination of Cardinal Mazarin). ‘... about May 1657, there arrived in England copies of an apology for tyrannicide, entitled Killing Noe Murder, published by Sexby in Holland, evidently with the assistance of Silius Titus, under the name of Sexby’s former fellow agitator William Allen. Sexby argued that Cromwell was a tyrant on a par with Caligula and Nero. However stable, his reign was an abrogation of law which constituted the enslavement of the English people and threatened the outright corruption of English society. In such circumstances the private citizen was perfectly within his rights in seeking to exact the punishment for which responsibility ought normally to rest with God and the magistrate. Tyranny being the suspension of the normal course of law, tyrannicide could not be regarded as an act of murder’ (Oxford DNB). cf. Quérard, I, 271-272. Rochedieu, French Translations of English Works, 332. WorldCat lists only a small handful of copies of this 1793 reprint.