John Wildman - Works

Works

Wildman was the author of numerous pamphlets, nearly all of them either anonymous or published under pseudonyms:

  1. ‘Putney Projects; or the Old Serpent in a New Form. By John Lawmind,’ 1647.
  2. ‘The Case of the Army stated,’ 1647 (Clarke Papers, i. 347, 356).
  3. ‘A Call to all the Soldiers of the Army by the Free People of England, justifying the Proceedings of the Five Regiments,’ 1647 (anon.)
  4. ‘Truth's Triumph,’ 1648 (answered by George Masterson in ‘The Triumph Stained,’ 1648).
  5. ‘The Law's Subversion; or Sir John Maynard's Case truly stated. By J. Howldin;’ 1648 (cf. Lilburne, The Picture of the Council of State, 1649, pp. 8, 19).
  6. ‘London's Liberties; or a Learned Argument between Mr. Maynard and Major Wildman,’ 1651.

In the ‘Twelve Collections of Papers relating to the Present Juncture of Affairs in England’ (1688–9, 4to), there are several pamphlets probably written by Wildman, viz.:

  • v. 8, ‘Ten Seasonable Queries proposed by an English Gentleman at Amsterdam to his Friends in England;’
  • vi. 3, ‘A Letter to a Friend advising in this Extraordinary Juncture how to free the Nation from Slavery for ever;’ and,
  • viii. 5, ‘Good Advice before it be too late, being a Breviate for the Convention.’

Three tracts are attributed to Wildman, jointly with others, in ‘A Collection of State Tracts, published on occasion of the late Revolution and during the Reign of William III’ (1705, 3 vols. fol.), viz.:

  • ‘A Memorial from the English Protestants to the Prince and Princess of Orange’ (i. 1);
  • ‘A Defence of the Proceedings of the Late Parliament in England,’ anno 1689 (i. 209); and
  • ‘An Enquiry or Discourse between a Yeoman of Kent and a Knight of the Shire, upon the Prorogation of Parliament,’ &c. (ii. 330).

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