Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1675 edition of "England's present interest discovered with honour to the prince, and safety to the people" by William Penn

Added at 06:26 on 14 October 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1675 edition of "England's present interest discovered with honour to the prince, and safety to the people" by founder of the North American colony, the Province of Pennsylvania, William Penn who was born #OnThisDay 14 October 1644. He worked to create his "Framework of Government", with the assistance of others, adding his own revolutionary idea to those ideas borrowed from elsewhere – the use of amendments – to enable a written framework that could evolve with the changing times.

< Leighton Library has a 1724 edition of his "De officio hominis et civis, juxta legem naturalem" by Baron Samuel von Pufendorf Leighton Library has 1640 edition of translation by François de Malherbe of "Les epistres de Seneque" by Lucius Annaeus Seneca >