1716 HIGDEN ENGLISH CONSTITUTION LAW GOVERNMENT ENGLAND

A
View of the English Constitution
 with Respect to the Sovereign Authority of the Prince,
 and the Allegiance of the Subject.
 In Vindication of the Lawfulness of taking the Oaths, to Her Majesty,
 by Law Required.
 
To which is added,
 
A Defence, by way of Reply,
 to the several Answers that have been made to it.
BY
WILLIAM HIGDEN, D.D.
LATE RECTOR OF ST. PAUL SHADWELL

 The FIFTH Edition.

LONDON
1716

  At the revolution of 1688 William Higden c1662–1715, Church of England clergyman, became a nonjuror, but later took the oaths of allegiance to Queen Anne, and in 1709 he published the first edition of  a defence of his actions in this work, A View of the English Constitution. In it he offered a variety of precedents from common and statute law which he felt justified giving allegiance to the king de facto. Like many jurors Higden tried to differentiate his arguments from those used to support the Rump Parliament, but particularly in the later parts of the View he did lapse into discussing allegiance purely in terms of the relationship between protection and obedience, a very common argument in the engagement controversy of the 1650s. His work attracted a number of replies from leading nonjurors, including Charles Leslie, George Harbin, Theophilus Downes, and Henry Gandy, and this edition includes his reply to the critics.

Each work has a title page dated 1716, each with its own preface, contents pages, and page numbering, 112 in the first, 192 in the second.

Condition
18th Century leather boards, recently re-spined in leather with gilt lettered title label and new endpapers, a good solid binding with slight wear, pages are slightly browned some with slight foxing etc, all complete.

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Size is 7¼ by 4¾ inches

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