| Author: | Diggs, Dudley, 1613-1643. |
| Title: | The vnlavvfulnesse of subjects taking up armes against their soveraigne in what case soever together with an answer to all objections scattered in their severall bookes : and a proofe that, notwithstanding such resistance as they plead for, were not damnable, yet the present warre made upon the king is so, because those cases in which onely some men have dared to excuse it, are evidently not now, His Majesty fighting onely to preserve himselfe and the rights of the subjects. |
| Print source: | The vnlavvfulnesse of subjects taking up armes against their soveraigne in what case soever together with an answer to all objections scattered in their severall bookes : and a proofe that, notwithstanding such resistance as they plead for, were not damnable, yet the present warre made upon the king is so, because those cases in which onely some men have dared to excuse it, are evidently not now, His Majesty fighting onely to preserve himselfe and the rights of the subjects. Diggs, Dudley, 1613-1643. [Oxford: s.n.], 1643. |
| Notes: |
"This defence of the doctrine of passive obedience was widely popular among the royalists and went through several editions"--DNB.
Attributed to D. Digges. Cf. BM.
First ed. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
Place of publication from Wing.
Errata on p. 70.
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library and Thomason Collection, British Library.
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| Subject terms: |
Government, Resistance to.
Monarchy -- Great Britain.
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| URL: | https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35998.0001.001 |
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