Madrid, reputed null, ii.

361.

A good man performs them
though he is a loser by the
bargain, iii. 93.

The necessity of standing to
them from religion and the
law of nature, iii. 238.
Between princes, confirmed
afterwards by parliaments,
&c. iii. 340.

Agrippa (Menenius) appeased
one of the most violent se-

ditions at Rome, and how,
ii. 228.

Ahab's growing sick on Naboth's
refusing him his vineyard,
ii. 452.

When his house was to be

cut off, iii. 325.
Alexander, of Macedon, thought

to be meant by Aristotle
for the man framed by na-
ture for a king, ii. 435, 441.
His extravagant frolics, ii. 91.
His fortune overthrew his

virtue, ii. 91, 100. iii. 322.
His reign full of conspiracies,
ii. 251.

After his death the kingdom

fell all to pieces, ii. 148.
It is thought he died by poi-
son, ii. 148.
Alexander, of Epirus, in valour
thought equal, in power lit-
tle inferior to him, ii. 221.
Alfred, Magna Charta ground-
ed on his laws, i. 329.
Alienation, vide Dominion.
Allegance is such an obedience
as the law requires, ii. 218,

282.

Alliances, ii. 31, 19, 319.
All things in their beginning are
weak, ii. 213.

Change by length of time, ii.

225.

VOL. III.

Altar, the horns of it no protec
tion to wilful murderers,

iii. 24.

Ambassadors, from whence kings
have their right of sending
them, iii. 238, 340.
Charles Gustavus, his excel-
lent saying to one, iii. 251.
From the Privernates, their
brave and resolute answer
to Plautius, the consul, when
they were suing for peace,
iii. 281.

From the other estates of
Scotland to queen Eliza-
beth, iii. 326.

Ambition, honest and wise men
exposed the folly of it, i.
425. ii. 266.

St.

Can never give a right to any
over the liberties of a whole
nation, ii. 32.

Tends to public ruin, ii. 155.
Is the overthrow of states

and empires, ii. 173, 175.
Man naturally prone to it, ii..

178.

What it prompts, ii. 258.
Has produced more mischiefs
than any other desires and
passions, ii. 265, 274, 277,
280, 474.

Ambrose, seems to have had
no knowledge of the Gothic
polity, ii. 474.
Ancestors, what we ought to do,

if we will be just to them,
iii. 295, 381.
Never thought their posterity
would so degenerate, as to
sell themselves and their
country, iii. 371.

By exerting their vigor we
shall maintain our laws, iii.
376.

Angli, or Saxons; Tacitus, his
description of their hither,

and that they had the root

of power and liberty in
themselves, iii. 211.
Antiochus, his vain boast to de-
stroy Greece and Italy, ii.

98.

How soon he lost all he pos-
sessed in Greece, &c. ii.
197.

Apostles, what their work was
in relation to the civil state,
ii. 247, iii. 31, 35, 41.
Aphanages, in France, to kings
brothers, produced very bad
effects, ii. 149.

Or to their sons, but they re-

main still subject to the
crown, ii. 364, iii. 114.
Appeals, the right of them to
the people, ii. 113, 114,
122, 139, 166, 241, iii. 25,
59.

None from parliamentary de-
crees, ii. 236.

To whom they were made
when there was in Rome no
superior magistrate in be-
ing, ii. 59.

No pardoning a man condem-
ned upon one, ii. 225.
An instance of it, iii. 244.
Arcana Imperii, how to be med-
dled with, i. 321, 322, 323.
Arians, as cruel as the Pagans,
ii. 211.
Aristocracy, what, i. 355. iii. 77.
For whom best, i. 434.
How set up, i. 444.
Was the Jewish government,
ii. 63.

Who patrons for it, ii. 43.
The Lacedemonians for it, ii.

371.

Whether it seems establish-
ed by nature, iii. 163.
Aristotle, slighted by Filmer, ii.

35.

Commendation of him i. 429,

79.

His notion of civil societies,
ii. 431, 133, 109, 110,
120, 60.

Who he thought was framed
by nature for a king i. 435.
ii. 141, 90.
Wherein he highly applauds
monarchy, ii. 79, 80.
Thinks the first monarchs
were but little restrained,
because they were chosen
for their virtue, ii. 366, 355.
His distinction between a king
and tyrant, ii. 452, iii.

160.

Who, he says are governed

by God, rather than by
men, iii. 70, 71.
Proves that no man is entrust-
ed with an absolute power,
iii. 160.

Armies, of the East and West,
set up emperors for them-
selves, ii. 107.

Out of what sort of men

they are to be formed, ii.
220, vide Mercenary and
Soldiery.
Arminius, killed for aiming at a

crown, which blemished
all his other virtues, iii. 42,
210.

Arms, those just and pious that
are necessary, and those
necessary, when there was
no hope of safety by any
other way, iii. 327.
Artaxerxes, and his army over-
thrown by the valour of
ten thousand Grecians, ii.
96, 97.

Artificer, what sort of one he
is to whom implicit faith
is due, i. 322.

Assemblies, that took their au-

Refused giving supplies to
their kings in Spain and
France, without orders
from their principals, iii.
362, 363.

Assyrians, vide Eastern Nations.
That empire wholly abolished
on the death of Belshazzar,
ii. 83, 84.

Little more known of them

than from scripture, ii. 256.
Athalia, more ready to cry out

treason than David, ii. 232.
Destroyed the kings race, and

by whom himself was kil-
led, ii. 252. vide Queen.
Athens, its government not so
much approved as that of
Sparta, ii. 157.
Banished some worthy men,
and put others to death, ii.
158.

The cruelty of thirty tyrants
there, ii. 159.

Augustus, Rome's longest peace

under his reign, ii. 122, 253.
What happened in it, ii. 127.
Was worse in the beginning

than in the latter end of
his reign, ii. 130.

Had thirty mercenary legions
to execute his commands,
iii. 165, 166.
Whether he truly deserved to
be called the head of the
Romans, iii. 195.

The name of Augustus is a
title belonging to the Ger-
man Emperor of this day,
iii. 260.
Austria, Spain after many revo-

lutions came to this, iii. 285.
Princes of this house, pretend
to know their original, iii.

103.

The German Empire came to
Rodolphus of this name
about three hundred years
ago, iii. 105.

What claim this has to the

crown of France, iii. 116,242.
Authors, of great revolutions,
their aims, ii. 173.
Axioms, in law, are evident to

common sense, and noth-
ing is to be taken for one
that is not so, iii. 185.

B

Babel, vide nations.
Babylonian kings, what right is
pretended to be in them, i.
371, 372.

Monarchy ruled by force,
the stronger turning out
the weaker, ii. 88, 89.
How its pride fell, ii. 103.
Little more known of its
monarchy than from scrip-
ture, ii. 256.
Babylon and Susa, trembled
at the motion of the Gre-
cian arms, ii. 301.

There were a people there
before Nimrod was king,
iii. 168, 169.
Balance of power, how

and

where it is broken, ii. 377,
iii. 291, 292.
Nations have suffered ex-
tremely through want of
this prudence, in rightly
balancing, &c. iii. 323.
In what manner power should
be balanced, for the advan-
tage and service of the
state, iii. 350.
Eanishment, not above five or

six men suffered unjustly
in the Roman government,
in the space of about three
hundred years, ii. 113, 117,
163.

The temporary of that, Athe-
nians never accounted as a
punishment, ii. 159.
Camillus recalled from it, and

afterwards honored, ii. 161.
Barbaroram regnum, ii. 351.
Baron, the extent of the name,
iii. 223, 224, 239.
Baronagium, what, ii. 27, iii.
221, 223.
Bartholomew de las Cassas, (a
Spanish bishop) his admi-
rable saying concerning the
office of a king, i. 387.

Bassampierre, his saying about
Rochel, ii. 329.

Bastards, those children can in-
herit nothing, ii. 46, 47.
Declared with relation to

crowns, ii. 53.

Advanced before legitimate
brethren, ii. 141, 142. iii.
110, 111, 114, 253.
In some places wholly exclu-
ded, ii. 264.

Beggars, of a king to Samuel,
such as would not be de-
nied, ii. 263, 264.
Parliaments, no beggars, iii.
89, 90.

Belial, who his son, ii. 79.
Bellarmin's tenets, i. 316, 318,

331, 332, 335, 336, 351.
Benjamites, how they prepared
for their defence, ii. 72. 73.
Best men, content with a due
liberty under the protection
of a just law, ii. 185, 186,
iii. 127, 129.

Have ever been against abso-
lute monarchy, ii. 189.
Despised, hated, and marked
out for destruction, ii. 327,
iii. 129.

Have their affections and pas-

sions, and are subject to be
misled by them, ii. 322, iii.

155.

Were so esteemed who de-
stroyed tyranny, iii. 457.
When they had need to fear,
iii. 19.

Can never wholly divest them-

selves of passions and af-
fections, iii. 177.
Birthright, gives no right to
sovereign dominion, ii. 38,

$9.

Some have been accused of
suppositious births, ii. 121,

122.

Bishops, the king's power in
making them, ii. 312.

What words of servitude are

said to be introduced by
them amongst us, iii. 40.
Blake, admiral, the terror his
fleet struck every where, ii.

334.
Blood, by God's law, that man's
is to be shed, who sheds
another's, iii. 13, 14.
The nearest in blood set aside,
when it was thought more
convenient to advance oth-
ers, iii. 108, 109, 110.
Bocalini, the princes of Europe
angry with him for his
definition of a tyrant, vide i.
Cent. 76, Advertisement, ii.
352.

Bought and sold, how places

come to be so, ii. 294, 298.
Senates and people cannot so
easily be, ii. 293, 298.
Bourbon, Henry, of that name,

not admitted to the crown,
till he abjured his religion,
and promised to rule by
law, ii. 361.
Bracton, his words, Omnes sub

eo, et ipse sub nullo, &c.
how to be understood, iii.
10, 12.

What he calls esse sub lege,
iii. 56, 66.

What he says the king is
obliged to do by his oath,
iii. 193, 194.

His saying about evil or un-
skilful judges, iii. 250.
Brethren, all so by nature, i.

359.

Nature abhors a difference in
species between them, ii. 12.
Where a fraternal equality
continued, ii. 19, 20.
Are equals, ii. 37.
What advanced some above

the rest, ii. 65, 66.
The governed, so called by

their magistrates, iii. 310.
Bribery, natural to courts, ii.
170, 171, 288, 290.
Seeks the largest bidder, ii.

214.

Cannot corrupt, where virtue is
preferred, ii. 292.

The way to prevent it, ii. 294,

296.

A noble person turned out of
a considerable office, as a
scandal to the court, for
being an enemy to this vice,
ii. 303.

Parliaments not so easily to

be prevailed upon, iii. 366.
Britain, shamefully lost, ii. 124.
Kings imposed upon the Brit-
ains by the Romans, and to
what end, ii. 405, 111, 196.
Severe assertions of their lib-
berties, ii. 122.

Though they chose command-
ers to their wars, yet they
kept the government in
themselves, iii. 208.
Ever had their great councils
to determine their most im-
portant affairs, iii. 211.
Brutus found it dangerous to
be thought wise, and why,
ii. 243, 265.
Buchanan, joined to Coleman, i.

316.

His character of king James,
ii. 358.

Concerning the violation of the

laws of Scotland, iii. 64.
Burgundy, continued in Hugh
Capet's eldest son Robert,
and his descendants, for
ten generations, iii. 116.

C
Cesar, of giving him his due, i.
S27. ii. 466.
Julius, subverted all order, by

invading the supreme ma-