"Until the 1750s men were flogged and imprisoned if convicted of spreading propaganda in support of the Stuart cause, while in 1719, a young printer John Matthews, who published a Jacobite pamphlet, Vox Populi, Vox Dei, was hanged. Alexander Pope: the evolution of a poet, 2002, p.102. "Treasures from the Stanford University Libraries: The American Enlightenment". " was afterwards published under the title of " The Judgment of whole Kingdoms. "Vox Populi, Vox Dei : being true Maxims of Government, proving - That all, Kings, Governours, and Forms of Government. An Alphabetical catalogue of an extensive collection of the extensive writings of Daniel Defoe, 1829, p.23. "As far back as 1327, in pronouncing the deposition of Edward II, the Archbishop of Canterbury Walter Reynolds had taken as his justifying text the old Carolingian adage Vox populi, vox Dei, “The voice of the people is the voice of God."
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The Trial of Charles I: A Documentary History, 2000. homage to the prince, and Archbishop Reynolds - the son of a baker - preached on the text Vox populi, vox Dei "At the meeting of this high court early in 1327, Archbishop of Canterbury Walter Reynolds brought charges against the king. As for Political Aphorisms, this was signed. But long before 1709 Ferguson had turned Jacobite, and it is unlikely that he turned back. F.', and there seems no reason to challenge the accepted attribution to Robert Ferguson. Some nineteenth-century bibliographers gave the honour to Somers, others to Defoe, but neither attribution is very plausible.It was signed 'R. "The author of Vox Populi Vox Dei is unknown. Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party 1689-1720, 1990, p.209.
"Hoadly's assize sermons had a strong influence, and provided the foundation for Whigs like Thomas Harrison, the probable author of the 1709 tract Vox Populi Vox Dei: or True Maxims of Government, which was reprinted eight times in the first. The title Vox Populi, Vox Dei was also borrowed in a Jacobite pamphlet to argue against the Whigs in 1719, resulting in the hanging of the young printer John Matthews. The 10th printing of the revised tract was in 1771. Vox Populi, Vox Dei : being true Maxims of Government was the next year, 1710, republished under the title of The Judgment of whole Kingdoms and Nations, with considerable alterations. From Reynolds onwards English political use of the phrase was favorable, not referencing the original context of the usage by Alcuin (739) who in a letter advised the emperor Charlemagne to resist such a dangerous democratic idea on the grounds that "the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness". The 1709 tract's use of the Latin phrase was consistent with earlier usage of vox populi, vox Dei in English political history since at least as early as 1327 when the Archbishop of Canterbury Walter Reynolds brought charges against King Edward II in a sermon "Vox populi, vox Dei". “There being no natural or divine Law for any Form of Government, or that one Person rather than another should have the sovereign Administration of Affairs, or have Power over many thousand different Families, who are by Nature all equal, being of the same Rank, promiscuously born to the same Advantages of Nature, and to the Use of the same common Faculties therefore Mankind is at Liberty to choose what Form of Government they like best.” The most cited section of the revised (1710) version of the pamphlet read: There is no evidence for persistent attribution to Daniel Defoe or John Somers as authors. The author is unknown but was probably either Robert Ferguson or Thomas Harrison. Vox Populi, Vox Dei (Latin, 'the voice of the people is the voice of God') was used as the title of a Whig tract of 1709, which was expanded in 1710 and later reprintings as The Judgment of whole Kingdoms and Nations: Concerning the Rights, Power, and Prerogative of Kings, and the Rights, Privileges, and Properties of the People. For more general uses, see Vox populi, vox Dei.