AN ANTHOLOGY OF WORKS BY
RICHARD OVERTON (c.1599-1664)
(2025 Edition)

Table of Contents with links to separate files

[Created: 12 October, 2025] [Updated: 12 October, 2025 ]

Source

An Anthology of Works by Richard Overton (1641-1649). Edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2024). This collection is also available as a single long file with 22 items and 466 pages.

These pamphlets/tracts are part of a collection of Leveller Tracts.

It is also one of several anthologies of Leveller Tracts, which include:

1. An Anthology of Works by John Lilburne (1638-1656) (2025) with 51 items and 1,488 pages. [Online in one file] and a [Table of Contents] with links to the individual items
2. An Anthology of Works by Richard Overton (1641-1649) (2024) with 22 items and 466 pages. [Online in one file] and a [Table of Contents] (this file) with links to the individual items
3. An Anthology of Works by William Walwyn (1600-1681) with 31 items. [Online in one file] (forthcoming) and a [Table of Contents] with links to the individual items
4. Demanding Liberty: An Anthology of Leveller Agreements of the People, Petitions, Remonstrances, and Declarations (1646-1659) (2025) with 30 items and 330 pages. [Online in one file].
5. An Anthology of Protests of "The Little People"(1641-1652) with 17 items and 182 pages. [Online in one file].
6. The Art of the Levellers (2020) which is a collection and discussion of some of the title pages of the Leveller Tracts (over 40 examples). [Online].

Table of Contents (links to the individual tracts)

1. [Richard Overton], A Dreame, or Newes from Hell (1641)
2. [Richard Overton or John Taylor], Old Newes newly Revived (June 1641)
3. [Richard Overton], The Frogges of Egypt, or the Caterpillers of the Commonwealth (August, 1641)
4. Richard Overton, Mans mortalitie: or, A treatise wherein ’tis proved, both Theologically and Philosophically, that whole Man (as a rationall creature) is a compound wholly mortall (19 January 1644)
5. [Richard Overton], The Araignment of Mr. Persecution (8 April 1645)
6. [Richard Overton], The Ordinance for Tythes Dismounted, from all Mosaicall, Evangelicall, and true Magesteriall Right (29 December 1645)
7. Richard Overton [Martin Mar-Priest], Divine Observations upon the London Ministers Letter against Toleration (24 January, 1646)
8. [Richard Overton], A Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens, and other Free-born People of England, To their owne House of Commons (17 July 1646)
9. [Richard Overton], An Alarum to the House of Lords: Against their insolent Usurpation of the Common Liberties, and Rights of this Nation (1 August 1646)
10. [Richard Overton], A Defiance against all Arbitrary Usurpations Or Encroachments (9 September 1646
11. Richard Overton, An Arrow against all Tyrants and Tyranny (12 October 1646)
12. [Richard Overton and John Lilburne], An Unhappy Game at Scotch and English (30 November, 1646)
13. [Richard Overton and John Lilburne], Regall Tyrannie discovered: Or, A Discourse, shewing that all lawfull (approbational) instituted power by God amongst men, is by common agreement, and mutual consent (6 January 1647)
14. [Richard Overton], The Commoners Complaint: Or, A Dreadful Warning from Newgate, to the Commons of England (10 February 1647)
15. [Richard Overton and John Lilburne], A Reall Persecution or, The Foundation of a general Toleration (13 February, 1647)
16. [Richard Overton and John Lilburne], The out-cryes of Opressed Commons (28 February 1647)
17. [Richard Overton], A new found Stratagem framed in the old Forge of Machivilisme (4 April, 1647)
18. [Richard Overton], An Appeale from the degenerate Representative Body the Commons of England assembled at Westminster (17 July 1647)
19. [Richard Overton] The Mournfull Cryes of many thousand Poore Tradesmen (22 January, 1848)
20. Ricard Overton, Overton’s Defyance of the Act of Pardon (2 July 1649)
21. Richard Overton, The Baiting of the Great Bull of Bashan (16 July 1649)
22. [Richard Overton], A New Bull-Bayting: or, A Match Play’d at the Town-Bull of Ely (7 August, 1649)