OF

POLITICAL LITERATURE

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.

(to 1700)

BY

ROBERT BLAKEY,

AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND,"

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,

Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

1

Introductory Observations.........

CHAPTER II.

Political Literature of Great Britain from 1400, till the

Year 1700.

SECTION 1.

From Henry V., to the termination of the Reign of Elizabeth.

Netter-Fortescue-More-Samson-Pole-Fox-Mair

Kyllour-Wedderburn--Lindsay-Buchanan-Melville

Knox-Elyot-Cheke-Mars-Bochas-Aylmer-Good-

man-Poynet-Arbuthnot- Chaloner-Penry-Udal-

Rose-Richer-Gentilis-Smith-Hooker..........

SECTION 2.

From James I., in 1603, to the Death of Charles I., in 1649.

James I-Bellenden - Bradshaw-Bacon-Raleigh-

Hall Andrews-Melton-Crackanthorp- Barclay -

Prynne-Baillie-Carpenter-Diggs-Selden-Lilbourne

-Birkenhead-Sadler-Heylin-Needham.....

SECTION 3.

From the Death of Charles I., to the Year 1700:-Charles I.

Gauden-Usher-Milton-Goodwin-Phillips-Walker

Cary― Coppe- Titus - Sancroft- Baxter- Hobbes-

Bate-Zouch-Taylor-Wolley-L'Estrange-Butler

Johnson-Marvel-Denton -Parker-South-Nalson

Neville-Filmer-Dryden-Cumberland-Sanderson-

Mackenzie-Tutchin-Harrington-Sidney-Bunyan-

Bohun-Jeffrey-Locke -Dawson-Moyle-Devenant

De Foe......

SECTION 4.

On Public Records ---Satirical Productions and Ballads of a

Political Character-The Drama-Newspapers, &c.......

CHAPTER III.

Political Literature of France from the Year 1400, till 1700:

Gregoire--Boucher-Lotin-Cosentin-De Lusigne-

Ribadeneyza-Naudé- Richer-Pheveneau-Saussovin

-De Mouchembert-De Dominis-Piccart-La Blanc-

Bossuet-Balzac-La Houssaye-Lenoir- Fénélon

Rabelais D'Alain-D'Orleans -Boileau-Pasquier—

Richeome-Agrippa-Chartier-Petit-Gacon-Durant

-Theophile-Bergerac-Noble-Pascal

CHAPTER IV.

Political Literature of Italy, from the Year 1400 till 1700:
Pletho- Facinus-Valla-Acciaoli-Goldastus-Machi-

avel-Bellarmin-Sigonius-Bozio-Gianotti-Conta-
rini-Boteri-Rosello - Paruta-Sarpi - Squitanio-
Campanella-Scaruffi-Serra-Aretino-Bracciolini―
Filelfo-Palearius-Bocolini-Pallavicin-Gigli.........

86

212

CHAPTER V.

Political Literature of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, and

other Northern Kingdoms of Europe, from the Year 1400

till 1700:-Muntzer-Reuchlin-Hütten-Luther-E-

rasmus-Melancthon-Zwingle-Calvin-Erastus-Cas-

talio-Koornhert-Beza-Lemnius-De Brandt-Jehan-

Zevecote-Lipsius-Althusius- Episcopius- Sleidan-

Comines-Gerhardus-Grotius-Puffendorf-Barbeyrac

-Wolff-Vattel-Marnin-Graswinkeli-Willaert-

Salmasius-Du Moulin-Inchofer-Sanders-Gisbert—-

D'Alquie-Spinoza - Pelisson- Larroque-Jurieu —

Modrevio — Noodt - De Witt — Leibnitz- Gozliski—

Patricius-Rosenkrants-Kraagius

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CHAPTER VI.

Political Literature of Spain and Portugal, from the Year

1400, to 1700:-Jesuits-Ximenes-Victoria-Augus

tino-Soto Ayala-Perez-Flaxardo-Mariana-Pe-

ralta-Perez-Suarez-Rebolledo-Carillo-Horozco-

Ramon-Valdecebro-Mendo-Parada-Guevara-Fur-

tado -Miedes -Gurrea -Albarnoz -Silvestre -Castil-

-

lejo-Quvedo-Mendoza-Bascan....

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364

CHAPTER VIII.

Concluding Observations

410

Notes

425