Payne, Resist or Murder, 1683

The Unlawfulness of Stretching forth the Hand to Resist or Murder Princes with the Principal Cases about Resistance, Considered, In Two Sermons. The first Preacht upon the Last Thirtieth of January. The other, upon the Day of Thanksgiving, for the Deliverance of the King and Kingdom from the Late Treasonable Conspiracy. By William Payne Rector of St. Mary White-Chappel. London, Printed by A. Grover, for Walter Kittelby at the Bishop’s-Head in St. Paul’s Church-yard. 1683 
 
Thin quarto in recent quarter brown leather binding with marbled paper over boards. Raised bands, gold details, and red label on spine. New end papers. Interior clean, bright, and tight, with the following minor exceptions: Slight marginal toning of title page, scattered unobtrusive marginal stains, early ink scrawling at bottom of A4 verso, “Anne Wallis 1717” neatly written in large letters in margin of E2 recto. Red leather (possibly faux) slip case, with partial title on side, and interior marbled. 
A-E^4, F^3 (lacking final blank).  
 
DNB: “William Payne, D.D. (1650–1696), controversialist, was born at Hutton, Essex, in 1650. He was educated at the free school of Brentwood, Essex, and proceeded to Magdalene College, Cambridge, in May 1665. He obtained a fellowship there on 6 July 1671, and retained it till 1675, when he married Elisabeth, daughter of John Squire, vicar of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, London. He was in the same year presented to the livings of Frinstead and Wormshill in Kent, and settled at the latter place. In June 1681 he received the rectory of Whitechapel, and speedily won a reputation among the London clergy as a preacher.... After the accession of William and Mary to the throne in 1689, Payne, who in this year took the degree of D.D. at Cambridge, was appointed to the lectureship of the Poultry Church in the city of London, and received the post of chaplain-in-ordinary to their majesties. He strongly supported the comprehension scheme, brought forward in 1689 for facilitating the inclusion of protestant dissenters in the established church.... In 1693 Dr. Payne was appointed, by a commission under the great seal, 'visitor-royal' over certain London churches, popularly called 'lawless churches,' because they were exempt from visitation by the bishop, and were subject solely to the king. The appointment, however, caused resentment at Doctors' Commons, and in 1694 he resigned it.”