all men,

Adam had no absolute authority by Clipped money, the charge of re-
God's appointment, 227, &c. coining it should not be borne
the grant (Gen. i. 28) gave by the public,

201
him no power over men,

228 Coin. Vid. Money.
the same grant was given to Coinage, paid for, by a tax on

233 wine, 90. Costs nothing to the
supposing he was proprietor owner, ibid. 105.-Makes not
of all things, this proves not his standard silver worth less than
sovereignty,
235 before,

122
his absolate dominion not

the charge of it comput-
proved by Eve's subjection, 244 ed,

124
of the conveyance of his

sup-

ascertains the quantity of
posed monarchical power, 273 silver, by a public mark, 143—

the absurdity of supposing and so is a security to the re-
any one heir of his autho- ceiver,

144
rity,

290

the art of it should be kept
the difficulties of discovering secret,

203
the true heir, 292, 302, &c. Commodities, the goodness of them
Arbitrary government, worse than does not always increase their
none,
420 price,

41
- no right to it from con-

the consumption of them
quest,

443 enhances their value, ibid.
Authority (political) not required

how the vending of them
in the fifth commandment, 261. is increased,

43
Vid. Political Power.

Commonwealth, how men come

under the government of it,
B.

and how far, 409, 414

the end of it is the
Balance of trade. Vid. Trade..

servation of property, 412
Bills of exchange, the only use of

the several forms of it,
them,
22

415, 16
Birthright, dominion does not na-

how the word is used by
turally belong to it, 302, &c.

the author,

416
Bullion. Vid. Silver. ;

its highest power cannot
Buyers, plenty of them inakes

be absolutely arbitrary, 417
things dear,

39.

must be governed by
C.
standing laws,

423

three kinds of power
Children not born in a full state of therein,

424
equality,

368

the subordination of its
- yet they are born to

426
it,

369

Community, how the supreme
when they come to be power is ultimately therein, 426
free,

371 Conjugal society, how made, 383
how they are said to be
born free,
372 tinuance in mankind,

384
Civil society. Vid. Political Conquest gives not right of govern-
Society.

ing to the aggressor,

443
Clipped money should pass only

if unjust, the conquered
for its weight, 196ấthe great may appeal to Heaven for jus-
mischief of its passing other- tice,

444
wise,

200

pre-

powers,

of its long

the
cause

indo 018 con-

law,

Conquest, whenjust, it gives an ab- Filmer, (Sir R.) his reasons against

solute power over the lives of the native freedom considered, 215 conquered,

446

his notions of fatherly auyet not over their estates,

thority,

217 and why,

447, 448 -he affirms kings to be above Corn, the price of it depends on its

ibid. plenty,

170

his strange interpretation of Scripture,

223 E.

sufficiently confutes his

own schemes, 270, 271 Equality (natural) may be altered

says, it matters not how by several things, 340, &c. kings come by their power, 274, Esau, his forces proved him not an

makes an usurper have heir to Adam's dominions, 314, right to govern,

ibid.

First-born, has no natural right, by Exchange (of money) in several being so, to dominion, 301 places, how regulated, 50 Force, when without authority, to

when it is high or low, 149 be opposed with force, 443, 444 &c.- the reasons of both, ibid. promises extorted by it not

binding,

451 F. Free, men are naturally so, 213,

339 Fathers, Filmer's account of their Freedom, (natural) men not deauthority,

225, 226 prived of, without their own -have not an absolute power consent,

420 over their children, 263

how men subject themgive not life to their chil- selves to any government, 409, 251

414 seldom intend to commu

G. nicate life, and sometimes wish Gamesters injurious to the public the contrary,

252
welfare,

28, 29 have no power to expose

God speaks in Scripture so as to be their children, 253 understood,

245, 246 some fathers have fattened Gold, altering its value by a law and eat their children, 254 in proportion to silver, tends to

- have not power to sacrifice impoverish a nation, 98, &c. their offspring,

256 not the measure of commerce their authority cannot be as silver is,

151 transferred, more than that of a why it should, notwithstandhusband,

286 ing this, be coined, ibid. their power may be for- the proportion between it feited, but not alienated, 287 and silver,

193 how they in time became Government cannot naturally deprinces,

382 scend by hereditary right, 275 Fatherhood, Moses and Joshua not

&c. made governors by the right of

how it differs from

proit,

330
perty,

283 the judges and kings of

that which gives right to Israel ruled not by this title, 331 it, in the present possessor, must Filmer, (Sir Robert) a breviate of give it to the successor, 284, &c. his system of government, 215

it is absolutely necesasserts that none are born sary to know who has the right free,

dren,

275

5.

ibid.

Government, how many ways it Inheritance, how goods came to
may be dissolved, 464, &c. descend by it from parents to
what right the commu-

children,

282, 283
nity have to preserve themselves,

political government
under ill management of it, 468 naturally descends by it, no

no great danger of a more than conjugal, 286
people's being forward to change Interest (of money) cannot be ef-
it,

471 fectually limited by a law, 4
the end of it is the good

the ill consequences of at-
of mankind,

412, &c.
tempting to limit it,

6
Barclay himself allows

the difference between na-
the people to defend themselves toral and legal interest, 9
from the tyrannical abuse of

what raises the natural in-
it,

476 terest,
how the abuse of it may

can be no more limited
be resisted,

478 than the hire of houses and ships,
when, according to Bar-

10
clay, governors lose their right

the mischiefs of reducing
to it,
478, 481 it low,

Il
- who must be judge when

the rent of land, &c. may
it is forfeited by those who are as well be limited,

36
intrusted with it,

483

sinking it, increases not
Guineas, how raising them impo- the value of other commodities,
verished the nation, 194 but the contrary,

32

yet it is fit the law should
H.

lay some restraint upon it, and
why,

63
Heir, (to government) none can

reasons for 61. per cent.
be so but by the laws of the being the best proportion, 64
community,

292

the height of it no preju-
controversies about him, dice to trade,

66
have caused great mischief in

why it is low in Holland,
nations,
292

66-69
primogeniture gives no pa-

if it were generally low,
tural right to be so, 301, 302 it would be an advantage to
Holland, why the interest of mo-

trade,

69
ney
is low there,

67

the lowering of it would
- men may lend there for as render it more difficult to bor-
much interest as they can get, row,

76
ibid. Judah (the patriarch) had no domi-
why the merchants of it nion of life and death, 309
undersell others,

80
how ducatoons came to be
scarce there,

95

K.
Hooker, his judgment concerning
civil government, 346 Kingdom grows rich or, powerful,

just as a farmer does,

19
1.

L.

Jacob became not a sovereign by
getting the birthright,

Labour first gave right to proper- Money due to foreigners cannot al-
ty,

364 ways be paid in goods or bills
Land, the yearly rent of it might of exchange,

17
better be limited than the in- - necessity of a proportion of
terest of money,

36, 37
it in trade,

21
the price of it rises not by want of it very injurious to
lowering the interest, 30.-The landholders,

25
cause of this,

37 lowering the value of it in-
rises in proportion to the creaseth not the value of other
number of buyers,
39, 53 things,

30-35
what increases the sellers of it is valued according to the
it,

53 plenty or scarcity of commodi-
what diminishes the number ties,

30, 32, 34, 36,
of its purchasers,

54

mischievous consequences of
the value of it decreases with a scarcity of it, 47–50
the decay of trade, ibid. - want of it at last falls upon
too much advance of its price

land,

73-75
an injury to the public, 62

how the value of it

piay

be
why men pay taxes for it, said to be raised, 82-86
though mortgaged, 75 - it cannot be really raised,

how it came at first to be ap- unless in proportion to its plenty
propriated,
360 or scarceness,

82
Landholders, want of trade a great raising in denomination,
loss to them,

25, 54, 56 tends to impoverish a nation,
Laws (human) must not be con-

86
trary to the law of nature or is valued according to the
Scripture,

419, note quantity of silver contained in
Legislative power, how it is bound- it, 89.-How it comes to be

423 otherwise when clipped, 94
Liberty, how men are by nature in the advantage of it in com-
the state of it,

339 merce above uncoined silver,
wherein it consists, 351

88
restraint by the law of na- the cause of melting it down,
ture consistent with it, 341

90
how far it is given up, by

it is better for the public to
becoming members of a com- be milled than hammered, 91
monwealth,

396, &c. raising the denomination
Lineal succession, not restored in will not hinder the exportation
the kings of Israel, 337 of it,

91, 93
none observed among the value of it should be kept
the rulers of Israel till David's as steady as possible,

103
time,

334 the proportion should always
Lowndes (Mr.) propounded to have be exactly kept between that of

our money reduced to one-fifth gold and silver, 97, 99
less value,

153 constant equality of its value,
his reasons for lessening the interest of every country, ib.
the value of money, answered, making it lighter than it
ibid.

should be is unjust, 109, &c.

lowering it, no advantage in
M.

selling and letting of land, 112,
Monarchy, how government, at

'&c.
first, generally came to be so, why so little is sometimes
400. Vid. Absolute Monarchy. coined,

119

ed,