Killing no Murder; briefly Discours'd
Subtitle: In Three Questions, fit for Publick View, to Deter and Prevent Tyrants from Usurping Supreme Power
By: Writ by Col. Titus, under the Name of William Allen, and Dedicated to Oliver Cromwel : Now Reprinted, and Address'd to the French King ....
Contributors: Sexby, Edward, d. 1658.
Publisher: Printed, and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster
Published: 1708
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Cromwell, Oliver, -- 1599-1658.; Louis -- XIV, -- King of France, -- 1638-1715.
Notes: Dedicatory epistle 'To his Highness Oliver Cromwell', signed W.A. [i.e. William Allen], a pseudonym.

ESTC lists this 1708 pamphlet under Silas Titus but the 1708 edition does not appear under Edward Sexby; H&L, listing the 1657 edition, adds '[Col. Edward Sexby and Col.Silius Titus]' after 'William Allen', and gives 'London [really Holland]' as the imprint; the DNB, in the entry for Edward Sexby,states: 'Under the name of William Allen he drew up an apology for tyrannicide, entitled 'Killing no Murder', which he ironically dedicated to Cromwell himself, printed in Holland, and sent over to England aboutMay 1657 ... Sexby's authorship ... is proved by internal evidence, and by his own confession made in the Tower'.

The DNB article for Silius Titus describes him as the intimate friend of Edward Sexby who 'may well have helped him in composing it'; NUC gives note: 'Authorship claimed by both Edward Sexby and Silas Titus'.

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