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Rights of the kingdom; or, Customs of our Ancestours: touching The Duty, Power, Election, or Succession, of our Kings and Parliaments; our True Liberty, Due Allegiance, Three Estates, their Legislative Power Originall, Judiciall [...]

Full title: Rights of the kingdom; or, Customs of our Ancestours: touching The Duty, Power, Election, or Succession, of our Kings and Parliaments; our True Liberty, Due Allegiance, Three Estates, their Legislative Power Originall, Judiciall, and Executive, with the Militia: Freely Discussed through the Brittish, Saxon, Norman, Lawes and Histories. With an Occasionall Discourse of Great Changes yet expected in the World. Small 4to. pp. [8], 93, 30-191, 176-184, [4]. Signatures: 2¶⁴ 2A-2M⁴ F-Z⁴ a-c⁴ †² (the eccentric collation explained on the verso of the last leaf). Modern full smooth mottled calf, gilt, blue marbled pastedowns and endleaves. This copy has two final content leaves, errata on the last page and on the verso of the title page. A few pages are slightly trimmed at the foot, costing numerals, catchwords, and parts of letters in the last lines, but all text is entirely legible. First edition. John Sadler (1615-1674), political theorist and reformer, Hebrew scholar, millenarian, and ‘Cambridge Platonist’, was a close friend and correspondent of both Milton and Samuel Hartlib, and an ally and promoter of Menasseh ben Israel, sharing Oliver Cromwell’s commitment to the readm

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