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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: and History as untrue, and commanded all possessors of copies to
deliver them up, that they might be purged of "the offensive and
extraordinary matters" which they contained. The "De Jure Regni"
was again prohibited in Scotland, in 1664, even in manuscript; and
in 1683, the whole of Buchanan's political works had the honour of
being burned by the University of Oxford, in company with those of
Milton, Languet, and others, as "pernicious books, and damnable
doctrines, destructive to the sacred persons of Princes, their state
and government, and of all human society." And thus the seed which
Buchanan had sown, and Milton had watered--for the allegation that
Milton borrowed from Buchanan is probably true, and equally
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