gistracy by force, ii. 105, 147, 468. iii. 310. Worse than Tarquin, ii. 153. By what means he set up his
tyranny, ii. 171, 444. Casar, Julius, scarce any prince had so many good qualities, till they were extinguished by ambition, ii. 173. Designed to make himself a tyrant, ii. 180. Thought all things lawful when the consulate was de- nied him, ii. 259.
When the power of the Ro- mans was expressed by this name, ii. 466.
Had a diadem offered him by
Mark Anthony, iii. 39. How observant he was of his word, when taken by pi- rates, iii. 92.
The state of the Roman em- pire after his usurpation, iii.
Augustus, his power not giv-
en, but usurped, iii. 165,166. Julius, what account he gives of our affairs here (in Brit- ain) iii. 171, 208. When, if ever, fear entered
into his heart, iii. 209. Casars, never called till the 6th
age of Christianity, iii. 262. Julius, in despair, would have killed himself, iii. 310. Cain, had no dominion over his brethren after Adam's death, i. 449.
From whence his fear (that
every man would slay him) proceeded, ii. 402. Caligula, his wish that the peo-
ple had but one neck, i. 331, 426, ii. 242, 309, 315. A monster of mankind, i. 370, iii. 62.
His making love to the moon, i. 409.
His expedition, when he said he had subdued the sea, ii. 124.
Valerius Asiaticus appeased the guards, by saying, he wished he had been the man had killed him, ii. 246. iii. 62. Murdered by his own guards, ii. 254.
Affected the title of being called God, which Claudius Cæsar calls Turpem caü in- sanium, ii. 345. iii. 39. Whose minister he might be said to be, iii. 32.
Said of him, that no man ever
knew a better servant, or a worse master, iii. 51. Wherein he placed his sove- reign majesty, iii. 146. Calvin, his opinion of the gov- ernment instituted by God, ii. 63, 70. Camden, his credit forfeited, by at great number of untruths, iii. 220. Campus Martius, was the land that belonged to the kings of Rome (not above ten acres) afterwards conse- crated to Mars, ii. 453. Cardinals, the respect paid them,
who have the power of choosing Popes, ii. 13. Carthage, how she grew to that excess of power that only Rome was able to over- throw, ii. 134, 205. Castile, the lords thereof had no
other title for many ages than that of Count, which was afterwards changed to that of King, without any addition to the power, iii.
Concerning the states thereof
erring, iii. 304. Catiline, his temper, ii. 136. One of the lewdest men in
the world, ii. 171. Cesset Processus, said to be an- nexed to the person of the
king, iii. 343. Ceylon, an Island in the East
Indies, where the king knows no law but his own will, iii. 353. Change, of government, no
proof of irregularity or prejudice to it, by those that have right, ii. 110, 150. Nothing found more orderly, ii. 38.
A mortal one in root and prin- ciple, ii. 43.
In government unavoidable, ii.
What changes deserve praise, ii. 45.
Where the wisdom of it is shewn, ii. 155. Where they are requisite sometimes, iii. 178. What are for the worse, iii. 293. Charter, of liberty, not from men but from God, iii. 264. Parliaments interposed their authority in these matters, iii. 300. Chatham, the city of London's dread at the Dutch fleet's burning the British fleet there, ii. 213. Cheat, of Mario Chigi, brother of Alexander VII. upon the sale of corn, ii. 305,
Child, or children, a wise one Eccl. 4, 13, i. 366, 410, ii. 59, 338, 476.
417, 447, iii. 395, 397, 407. Of God and of the devil, i.
If children then heirs, i. 454. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, i. 456. ii. 55.
On what account children are admitted to rule, ii. 56. What understood by the word child, ii. 58.
They do not always prove like their parents, ii. 298, iii.
Children, the danger of having them to be kings, ii. 339. The law gives them relief against the severities of their parents, ii. 404. Were punished with death, and for what, ii. 404. Christianity has been split into variety of opinions, ever since it was preached, ii.
The first professors were of the meanest of the people, iii. 30.
St. Paul's work was to pre- serve the professors of it from errors concerning the state, iii. 31. Sufficiently proved to be an- cient, if proved to be good and true, iii. 173.
Cities, consist of equals, i. 431,
What makes them free, iii. 165.
Cives, vide Incola. Civil war, vide war. Cleanthes, his philosophic reply to Aristippus, about flat- tery, ii. 291.
Clergy, the veneration ourances- tors had for them, iii. 218.
Their duty is perpetual, i. Collectors, their extortions, ii.
Commanders, after the captivity, who thought most fit, i. 361, 362.
Of armies, who thought best to be made so, ii. 432. The best among the Greeks and Romans in their times, would not know how to manage an army now, iii. 290, 291.
Where they have been put to death for misbehavior, &c. iii. Sol. Commands, of a master, how far the servant is bound to
obey them, &c. iii. 369, 370, 371. Commission, from God, what, i. 423.
They who hereby grant au- thority, do always retain more than they give, iii. 179, 363. Comitia Centuriata, what, iii. 53. Commons, whether they had a part in the government, iii. 215.
Always had a place in the councils that managed it,
Many of them in antiquity and eminency, little inferior to the chief of the titular nobility, iii. 219, 227. The nation's strength and vir- tue in them, iii. 227. How all things have been brought into the kings, and their hands, iii. 293. Yet never can be united to the court, iii. 293. Have refused to give their opinion in many cases, till they had consulted with those that sent them, iii. 302. Commonwealths, for what end in- stituted, i. 310.
All the regular kingdoms in the world are so, i. 350,
Of Italy, not without valour and virtue, ii. 130.
How they seek peace and war, ii. 200.
Whether better to constitute one for war or trade, ii. 205. Another sort composed of
many cities associated to- gether, and living aquo jure ii. 207.
Seldom advance women, chil- dren, or such like, to the supreme power, ii. 283. In them all men fight for themselves, i. 286. When the laws are abolished, the name also ceases, ii. 286.
Less slaughter in these than in absolute kingdoms, ii.
Of Greece and Italy, why" called nurseries of virtue, ii. 307.
Justice very well administered in them, iii. 20.
How they may be saved from ruin, iii. 296. Competitors, sovreigns do impa- tiently bear them, i. 347. Where their own swords have decided their disputes, ii. 231, 264.
Contests between them rela- ting to the crown, are often very bloody, ii. 268, 271, 273, 277, 278, 280, 281. Compulsion, he that will suffer
himself to be compelled, knows not how to die, i. 419.
Conquest, what is so called, i 353, 380, 381.
William the First, had the
name of conqueror odiously given to him, ii. 34. The extent thereof, not the only thing to be considered, ii. 123, 124. Some commonwealths hereby designed to enlarge their territories, ii. 203. The king cannot dispose of a conquered country, because it is annexed to the office, ii. 180.
It is the people that conquer, not any one man by his own strength, ii. 192. Conscience, how it ought to be regulated, iii. 95. Consent, general, to resign part
of their liberty for the good of all, is the voice of nature, i. 339, 353, 383. First conferred power, i, 247,
251, 380. ii. 19, 20, 54. Government arises from it, i. 381, 385. ii. 20, 24, 35, 384. The right of magistrates es- sentially depends upon it, ii. 24, 25, 351. iii. 104, 156, 170.
None to tyrannize, ii. 25. No complete, lawful power, without it, ii. 29, 54, 189, 234.
Of the three estates in many places required to pass a law, ii. 371. Whatsoever proceeds from it,
must be de facto only, iii. 257. Constantine, the great, with what blood he was polluted, ii. 266, 375. His power kept up hereditary, but with extreme confusion and disorder, i. 382. Constitutions, of every govern- ment, to whom referred, i. 382.
Humanity subject to corrup tion, and therefore to be re- duced to their first princi- ples, ii. 111.
Where new ones are neces- sarily required, ii. 151. That the best, which is at- tended with the least incon- veniences, ii. 163.
Who endeavour the subver- sion of them, i. 201. iii. 295. Of commonwealths, various, ii. 201. iii. 254.
Of the northern nations that invaded the Roman empire, ii. 204.
The temper of that of the
United Provinces, ii. 210. Good ones remain, though the authors of them perish, ii.
The salutary ones made by men, God approves and ratifies, iii. 22.
Of a state, that aims at per- petuity, iii. 50.
Are made for and by the peo- ple, iii. 139.
What the imperfections of all human constitutions, iii. 177.
Our ancient, has been wholly inverted, iii. 227.
What are most to be com-
mended, ii. 287, 320. Of no value, if there be not a power to support them, iii. 287. Consuls, made of Plebeians, how seldom chosen, and with what prudence, ii. 111. Represented kings, and were vested with equal power, ii. 139, 141. iii. 43, 269. Were created after the ex- pulsion of Tarquin, ii. 152, 375.
Consuls, strangers raised to that honour, iii. 269. Though supreme in power, yet subject to the people, ii. 236, 394, 447. Marius continued five years in the office, ii. 375. Only for a year, ii. 393. Title of dread sovereign might justly have been given to them, iii. 269.
If they grew insolent, how they might be reduced, iii. 288. Contracts, how framed between nations and their kings, ii. 409, 434, &c. iii. 281, vide Judges, Nations, Original. Entered into by princes be- fore their investiture, iii. 28.
The breaking them
throws all societies, iii. 90. In writing, said to be invent- ed only to bind villains, and why, iii. 91.
All are mutual, and whoever fails of his part discharges the other, iii. 98. Contrariorum contraria est ras- tio, iii. 32.
Coriolanus, duly condemned by
the Romans, ii. 160. Controversies, with other na-
tions, the decision of them left to judges chosen by mutual agreement, iii. 331. Coronation oath, ii. 39, 42, 54, 55, &c.
Norman kings obliged to take it, iii. 10.
How far the British kings are obliged to observe it, ii. 83, 85, 90, 91, 92, 93. iii. 190, 273. Corporations, or bodies politic, what places were thought
fit by the king and council to be made so, iii. 299. Corruption, natural to courts, in- stances given, ii. 63, &c. 71,
Of ministers in foreign courts, ii. 192, 193.
The effect of that which pro- ceeds from the govern- ment in particular instances, ii. 223, iii. 335.
Of a people, tends to tyranny, ii. 248.
Makes princes' titles good, and how, ii. 255. Where it certainly most abounds, ii. 286, 289, 294. Must always be opposed by free governments, and why, ii. 289.
The basest, but most lucra- tive traffic, ii. 294. In the head, must necessarily diffuse itself into most of the members of the com- monwealth, ii. 295, 331. A just prince that will hear his people's complaints himself, prevents it, ii. 298. Mankind naturally propense to it, ii. 297, 299.
Of judgment, proceeds from private passions, iii. 61. Of Members of Parliament, iii. 370. Counsellors, made choice of ac- cording to the temper of the prince, i. 324. ii. 76, 77,
Signify little to an absolute
monarch, ii. 193, 223. In the multitude of them gen- erally is safety, ii. 302. Whether those of the king are exposed to punishments, and for what, iii. 345. Council, of seventy chosen mes, ii. 69.
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