Mercurius Politicus was a newsbook that was published weekly from June 1650 until the English Restoration in May 1660.
[1] Mercurius Politicus was Marchmont Nedham's most significant enterprise, which he used as a platform for the Commonwealth regime.
This third Nedham weekly began in June 1650, on a light note: "Why should not the Commonwealth have a Fool as well as the King had?"
– but soon settled into a more serious vein as a voice of the republican movement of the day.
[2] He rested the case for the Commonwealth on arguments similar to those of Hobbes: that "the Sword is, and ever hath been, the Foundation of all Titles to Government", and that it was hardly likely that the Commonwealth's adversaries would ever succeed in their designs.