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Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (London, 1791)
Although this volume of tracts by Thomas Paine contains the signature of Wilberforce and found its way into the Milner collection neither men would have agreed with its contents. In the Rights of Man Paine famously argued that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. This formed a basis for his defence of the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France. Both Wilberforce and Isaac Milner were implacable opponents of Jacobinism, and those sympathetic to the ideals of the French Revolution.
![Queens MS 27, John Wycliffe (1330–84), De veritate scripturae [The truth of the scriptures]. Fifteenth-century copy, hand-written on vellum (calf skin).](https://photos.smugmug.com/Exhibitions/Milner/Milner/i-379svkf/0/799ff8c5/Ti/27-Ti.jpg)
![Queens MS 27, John Wycliffe (1330–84), De veritate scripturae [The truth of the scriptures], fol. 128v.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Exhibitions/Milner/Milner/i-W3Zv38V/0/557d1979/Ti/28-Ti.jpg)
