Description:
Scargill, Daniel (fl. circa 1669) The Recantation of Daniel Scargill, Publickly Made before the University of Cambridge, in Great St. Maries, July 25, 1669. London: A. Maxwell, 1669. Quarto, one of three copies published in 1669, the only London edition, rare, ESTC lists three copies: British Library, Folger, and Yale; A4, 8 pages; later binding, half leather, damaged, boards still attached, 6 x 5 1/4 in.
Scargill evidently ran afoul of the University by publicly asserting that if "all right of dominion is founded only in power [and that] the devil were omnipotent [then] he [the devil] ought to be obeyed, along with other "divers, wicked, blasphemous, and atheistical positions."
Estimate $50-100
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