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21 For a fuller account of the Atkyns conflict, see Johns, Nature of the Book, 304-0,338-44.
22 Norbrook, Writing the English Republic, 1-22; J. H. Scott, Englands Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 162-66.
23 Johns, Nature of the Book, 313.
24 T. Hobbes, Behemoth: Or the Long Parliament, ed. F. Tonnes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 109.
25 See especially A. O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1977).
26 For the printers' objections, see The London Printers Lamentation, or, the Press opprest, and overprest ([London]: n.p., 166o); A Brief Discourse Concerning Printing andPrinters (London: "Printed for a Society of Printers," 1663); and, in general, C. Blagden, "The `Company' of Printers," Studies in Bibliography 13 (1960): 3-17.
27 R. Atkyns, The original and growth ofprinting (London: byJ. Streater for the author, 1664), sig. [B3]°
28 P. Seaward, The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 117.
29 Thucydides, Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian warre, trans. Thomas Hobbes (London: printed for Henry Seile, 1629), 4; Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. R. Tuck (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 67 (Part I, ch. 1o); H. A. Ormerod, Piracy in the AncientWorld.•An Essay in Mediterranean History (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1978),59-70-
30 Cicero, De Oiciis, 11:40, 111:107; translation in On Duties, ed. M.T. Griffin and E. M. Atkins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 77-78, 141-42.
31 Digest XLIX,15, 24; Ormerod, Piracy, 6o. For the cultural importance of speaking truthfully, see S. Shapin, ASocial History ofTruth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
32 Cicero, De republics, II1:24a; translation in On the Commonwealth and On the Laws, ed. J. E. G. Zetzel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 67. I am grateful to Reviel Netz at Stanford for identifying the source some years ago.
33 "primo latronicia, deinde valida bella piratarum": Augustine, De Civitate Dei, IIL•vi; translation in Concerning the City of God against the Pagans, trans. H. Bettenson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984),127,142.
34 Augustine, De Civitate Dei, IV-.iv; City of God (1984), 139-42.
35 M. Rediker and P. Linebaugh, The Many-Headed Hydra: ,Sailors, ,Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the RevolutionaryAtlantic (Boston: Beacon, 2000), 120.
36 J. Dryden, "Heroick Stanza's, on the late Usurper Oliver Cromwell," stanza 30, in E. Waller, J. Dryden, and T. Sprat, Three poems upon the death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: W. Wilson, 1659), 8.
37 J. Harrington, The Common-wealth ofOceana (London: byJ. Streater for L. Chapman, 1656), 195.
38 [J. Streater], Observations Historical, Political, andPhilosophical, upon Aristotles firstBook of Political Government (London: for R. Moon; in eleven weekly numbers, April 4 to July 4, 1654), 6-7, 18-20, 37-38;Johns, Nature of the Book, 313.
39 J. Milton, "Defence of the People of England," in Complete Prose Works, 8 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1953-82), IV, pt. 1, 419; [D. Defoe], "Miscellanea," Review VI, no.104 (December 3,1709): 415. Augustine's own seventeenth-century translator used the more generic "theefe": Augustine, Of the Citie of God, trans. I.H., 2nd ed. (London: by G. Eld and M. Flesher,1620),15o. Interestingly, Milton remarks that kings' power is the power of highwaymen rather than poets or painters - an apposite comparison in the context ofAtkyns's case, since the latter supported his argument by claiming that Charles I had proved his mettle by his acuity in such aesthetic matters. For the later jurisprudence, see Ormerod, Piracy, 6o-6i.
40 Johns, Nature of the Book, 314-5.
41 J. Vaughn, "The Politics