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Richard Overton

1631 - 1664

About the Author

Richard Overton (1631-1664) was an actor, playwright, and Leveller pamphleteer during the English Revolution. He had his own secret printing press and wrote many articles for the Leveller journal The Moderate. His most important works include Mans Mortalitie (1644), An Arrow against all Tyrants (1646), and A Defiance against all Arbitrary Usurpations (1646).

See also in the Forum:

• An Arrow against all Tyrants (1646)

In The Library:

• author: An Arrow against all Tyrants (1646)
• author: The Best of the OLL No. 32: Richard Overton, “An Arrow against all Tryants and Tyrany” (October, 1646) (2013)
• author: Puritanism and Liberty, being the Army Debates (1647-9) from the Clarke Manuscripts with Supplementary Documents (1938)

Quotations:

• Richard Overton shoots An Arrow against all Tyrants from the prison of Newgate into the prerogative bowels of the arbitrary House of Lords and all other usurpers and tyrants whatsoever (1646): (13 August, 2009)