With the O of the imprint date partially erased so that it looks like a l. Publication date given according to Old Style dating still employed in the Spanish Netherlands at this time. Because of confusion over the actual date of publication, this edition was erroneously assumed to be the first.

The imprint is false. Actually printed in Utrecht by Theodorum ab Ackersdijck and Gisbertus à Zijll.

A reissue, with cancel title page, of the edition with "Joannis Miltonii [sic]" in first line of title and with imprint date "1651".

A reply to: Saumaise, Claude. Defensio regia pro Carolo I.

For an explanation of the complicated publication history of this work, see F.F. Madan, "Milton, Salmasius, and Dugard" (The Library, ser.4 vol.4 (1923) 119-45) and "Revised bibliography of ... Milton's Pro populo Anglicano defensio" (The Library, ser. 5 vol. 9 (1954) 119-45). The Madan numbers found in Wing and cited here refer to the numbers supplied by Madan in his articles.

Signatures: A-L¹□□² (E4 missigned C4)

Errors in pagaination: pages 29, 238, 242 misnumbered 2, 138, 142 respectively.

With woodcut of Commonwealth Arms on title page; head pieces; initials.

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), M2165

ESTC (RLIN), R12770

Grolier club: English writers from Wither to Prior, v. 2, p. 180-181, no. 580

Madan, F.F. Milton, Salmasius, and Dugard, no. 4

c.1: 01/02 0421R.