The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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John Swinton (c. 1621 - 1679)

Scottish politician and ant-royalist pamphleteer. Among his published tracks was England's warning, or, A friendly admonition to the rulers thereof, to beware of persecuting the righteous for yeelding obedience to the law of God (London, 1664), written in verse (Wing S6283). Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/26851 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swinton_(died_1679) References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Another called England's Warning, by J. S. Thanksgiving after the Sacrament,