Titles by Richard Overton

1631 – 1664

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).

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An Arrow against all Tyrants

Richard Overton

Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 2 (1644-1645)

John Lilburne

Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 3 (1646).

David M. Hart

Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 4 (1647)

David M. Hart

Puritanism and Liberty, being the Army Debates (1647-9)

Alexander Dunlop Lindsay

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