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5 - An arrow against all tyrants. 12 October 1646

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Richard Overton
Affiliation:
General Baptist congregation in the Netherlands
Andrew Sharp
Affiliation:
University of Auckland
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By Richard Overton

Prerogative archer to the arbitrary House of Lords, their prisoner in Newgate, for the just and legal properties, rights and freedoms of the commons of England. Sent by way of a letter from him, to Mr Henry Marten, a member of the House of Commons

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Rectat Justitia

Printed at the backside of the Cyclopian Mountains, by Martin Claw- Clergy, printer to the reverend Assembly of Divines, and are to be sold at the sign of the Subject's Liberty, right opposite to Persecuting Court. 1646

An arrow against all tyrants and tyranny, shot from the prison of Newgate into the prerogative bowels of the arbitrary House of Lords, and all other usurpers and tvyrants whatsoever

Sir,

To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any. For every one, as he is himself, so he has a self-propriety, else could he not be himself; and of this no second may presume to deprive any of without manifest violation and affront to the very principles of nature and of the rules of equity and justice between man and man. Mine and thine cannot be, except this be. No man has power over my rights and liberties, and I over no man's. I may be but an individual, enjoy my self and my self-propriety and may right myself no more than my self, or presume any further; if I do, I am an encroacher and an invader upon another man's right – to which I have no right.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1998

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