e of the many occasional pamphlets
which appeared at the time from "underground" shops which least of all
wanted to be known as the agent of publication. Neville either avowed
the authorship or it was traced to him, and the displeasure of Cromwell
and banishment from London followed.

In 1681 he printed "Discourses concerning Government," which was much
admired by Hobbes, and even Wood admits that it was "very much bought up
by the members [of parliament], and admired: But soon after, when they
understood who the author was (for his name was not set to the book),
many of the honest party rejected, and had no opinion of it" A later
writer describes it as an "un-Platonic dialogue developing a scheme
for the exercise of the royal prerogative through councils of state
responsible to Parliament, and of which a third part should retire every
year."{1} Reissued at the time under its better known title--"Plato
Redivivus"{2}--it was reprinted in 1742,{3} and again by Thomas Hollis
in 1763.

1 Dictionary of National Biography, XL. 259.

2 Plato Redivivus, or A Dialogue concerning Government:
wherein, by Observations drawn from other Kingdoms and
States both ancient and modern, an Endeavour is used to
discover the politick Distemper of our own; with the Causes
and Remedies. The Second Edition, with Additions. In Octavo.
Price 2s. 6d. Printed for S. I. and sold by R. Dew. The Term
Catalogues (Arber), 1.443--the issue for May, 1681. The
initials S. I. do not again occur in the Catalogues, and R.
Dew is credited with only two issues, both in May, 1681,
neither giving the location of his shop. The tract called
out several replies, such as the anonymous Antidotum
Brittanicum and Goddard's Plato's Demon, or the State
Physician Unmasked ( 1684).

3 A copy is in the Library Company, Philadelphia.

His translations from Machiavelli are not so easily traced, nor is any
explanation possible for his having delayed for nearly [34]thirty years
publication of evidence of his admiration for the Florentine politician.
He was not alone in desiring to make the Italian political moralist
better known, for translations of the "Discourses" and "The Prince,"
with "some marginal animadversions noting and taxing his [Machiavelli's]
errors," by E. D.{1} was published in a second edition in November,
1673, but I do not connect Neville with that issue. In the following
year