all men,

41

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 absolute 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,
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 pre-
Balance of trade. Vid. Trade.

servation of property,

412
Bills of exchange, the only use of

the several forms of it,
them,

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 makes

be absolutely arbitrary, 417
things dear,

39

must be governed by
C.

423
standing laws,

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
powers,

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

the cause of its long con-
born free,

372 tinuance in mankind, 384
Civil society. Vid. Political Conquest gives not right of govery-
Society.

ing to the aggressor,

443
Clipped money should pass only

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

444
wise,

200

22

and why,

Conquest, when just, 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 au-
yet not over their estates, thority,

217
447, 448 - he affirms kings to be above
Corn, the price of it depends on its

law,

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.
315 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 de-
authority,

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

420
over their children, 263

how men subject them-
give not life to their chil- selves to any government, 409,
dren,
251

414
seldom intend to commu-

G.
nicate life, and sometimes wish Gamesters injurious to the public
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, notwithstand-
husband,

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 de-
princes,

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

&c.
made governors by the right of

how it differs from pro-
it,
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 neces-
asserts that none are born sary to know who has the right
ibid. to it,

275

the contrary,

free,

5,6

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,
Barclay bimself allows

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

wbat raises the natural in-
it,
476 terest,

ibid.
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,

11
- 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,
Heir, (to government) none can

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

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 na-

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.

63

292

L.

Jacob became not a sovereign by

getting the birthright, 298
James I. (king of England) bis
judgment of tyranny,

457

Labour, much more owing to it
than to nature,

361-3

21

25

ties,

75

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

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 may be

why men pay taxes for it, said to be raised, 82-86
though mortgaged,

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

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
how far it is given up, by

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

90

Money, it is really valuable ac- Money, how it has been altered in

cording to its weight, 139.- former times, 185,- and the
This must be understood of most probable occasion of it, 187
silver without the alloy, 140

- how to prevent the melting
why so much was coined of it down, or exporting it, 199
in queen Elizabeth's time, and how the use of it first en-
after,

130 larged the extent of property,
-how it answers all things, 139

365-366
the denomination alters not Vid. Interest of Money.
the intrinsic value, ibid.

lessening its real value is
worse than clipping, 146

N.
its being current only for its
weight, is the most effectual way Nature, men are by it in a state
to stop the mischief of clipping, of equality,

340
147

by it people have liberty,
- it is necessary in proportion to but not licence,

341
the plenty of it in neighbouring

in the state of it, every
nations,

148 one has right to punish the
it will always be of equal breach of its law, 341, 342
value with the same weight of

the inconveniencies of
standard silver,

158 it not greater than of absolute
what causes the exportation monarchy,

345
of it,

160

independent princes are
it ought not to be made still in the state of it, 346
lighter, though silver were Noah had authority given bim, in
grown dearer,

164 common with his sons, 235
lessening it would be a gain was not the sole heir of the
to money-hoarders, but a loss to world,

238
others,

166 had a greater dominion over
by making it one-fifth light- the creatures than Adam, 239
er, creditors and landlords lose none of his sons heir to
20 per cent.

168 Adam, more than the rest, 316
and labourers also lose by
it, unless they have one-fifth
more wages,

170
the change of its name will
not alter its value, 177

Par (in the exchange of money)
the insignificancy of lessen- what it means,

149
ing, explained by familiar simi- Parental power, perhaps a more fit
litudes,

ibid. phrase than (as usual) paternal
if a crown of it (e. g.) be power,

367, 368
called 75 pence, it will buy no

how it differs from poli-
more goods than if it be called tical,

378
180 Parents, their power temporary,
lowering its value will not but the honour due to them per-
render it more generally use-

375
ful,

ibid.

the ground and extent of
it cannot be of the full price their power over their children,
of bullion, because of exporting

370, &c.
the latter,

184

may give masters authority
the true raising it is by put- to use force upon their children, ,
ting more silver in it, 185

377

P.

60 pence,

petual,