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James Tyrrell

1642 - 1718

About the Author

Tyrrell was a Commonwealthman and a friend of John Locke and Richard Cumberland, and a popularizer of their ideas. He is best known for his critique of Filmer’s book on patriarchy and his dialogue Bibliotheca Politica between the Tory, Meanwell, and the Whig, Freeman.

In The Library:

• author: Patriarcha non monarcha. The Patriarch unmonarch’d (1681)