Killing is murder, and no murder: or An exercitation concerning a scurrilous pamphlet, of one William Allen, a Jesuitical impostor; intituled Killing no murder: Wherein his Highness honor is vindicated and Allens impostors discovered. And wherein the true grounds of government are stated, and his fallacious principles detected and rejected. As also his calumnious scoffs are perstringed and cramb'd down his own throat. By Mich. Hawke, of the Middle-Temple Gentl.

People / Organizations

• Michael Hawke (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for the author; and are to be sold at the Stationers shops, 1657.

Publication year

1657-1657

ESTC No.

R21050

Grub Street ID

86647

Description

[8], 56 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 4⁰

Note

Edward Sexby and Silius Titus were joint authors of "Killing no muder"; William Allen, under whose name this work appeared, was, like Sexby, a trooper in Cromwell's own regiment. Cf. Firth, C.H., "Killing no murder," in English historical review, v. 17 (1902), pp. 308ff.

With engraved frontis. portrait (plate) of Oliver Cromwell.

Marginal notes.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), H1171A