Vox Populi, Vox Dei of Government" was the next year, 1710, republished under the title of "The Judgment of whole Kingdoms and Nations," with considerable alterations. The 10th printing of the revised tract was in 1771. The title "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" was also borrowed in a Jacobite pamphlet to argue against the Whigs in 1719, resulting in the hanging of the young printer John Matthews. Vox Populi, Vox Dei Vox Populi, Vox Dei is Latin for "the voice of the people is the voice of God." The phrase was used as the title of a Whig tract of 1709, which was expanded in
Vox Clamantis of Viterbo, or the author of "Speculum Stultorum." "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" ("A voice of one crying in the wilderness") alludes to the Vulgate translation of the Gospel of Mark and of the Gospel of John (where the voice is that of John the Baptist), quoting the Book of Isaiah . Vox Clamantis Vox Clamantis ("the voice of one crying out") is a Latin poem of around 10,000 lines in elegiac verse by John Gower that recounts the events and tragedy of the 1381 Peasants' Rising. The poem takes aim at the corruption of society and laments the rise of