Locke: Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by John Locke

Author:John Locke [Locke, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-10-28T06:00:00+00:00

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§ 1 8 ‘the Encomium of Nero*, Encomium Neronis by Jerome Cardan, 1546. Locke owned Cardan’s Opera, Leyden, 1663 (H. and L. 587).

9 The title of Filmer’s book was Patriarcha : or the Natural Power of Kings, and was prefixed by an epistle from his friend Peter Heylyn, the Royalist Divine. Van Hove’s engraved portrait of Charles II was the frontispiece, marking the connection of its publication with the Royal Court. Compare 1, § 14, 5 and 1, § 129, 1, and on Heylyn see Laslett, 1948, 1949: on the publication of Patriarcha, and Locke’s personal copy, see Introduction, 57 and note.

Locke is disingenuous in implying that this was his first encounter with Filmer’s works, see Introduction, 34.

§ 2 8 Patriarcba was written c. 1637–8, not published till 1680: see Introduction, 57, and Laslett, 1949.

11 ‘Pattern in the Mount’, Heb. viii. 5, itself a reference to God’s Commandments on Sinai.

12-16 Filmer’s system, summarized by him on p. 229 of Laslett’s edition.

§ 4 14 For these authors see Patriarcha (Laslett, 1949), p. 54, and compare 1, § 67, 28-30. Barclay is quoted in 11, §§ 232, 6; 235-9: Locke listed in 1681 Barclay’s De Potestate Papae and his De Regno et Regali Potestate—see notes on 11, §§ 232, 239.

§ 5 1 Paragraph number omitted in 1st edition, both states.

4 Refers to the famous sermons exalting the Royal Prerogative preached and published in 1627 by Robert Sybthorpe (Of Apostolique Obedience) and Roger Manwaring (Religion and Allegiance), see Allen, 1938, 176-80. They are also named by Sidney in somewhat the same way: 1772, 5.

7-8 Compare Preface 39 (added in 1698): Sir Robert Filmer’s brother Edward was at the Court of Charles I and a francophile, a friend of Henrietta Maria’s, and his son Edward was Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I and Charles II (see Laslett, 1948 (ii)), but he himself was never a courtier. In this sentence ‘was’ seems to have been changed from ‘is’ in 1689.

* In Grants and Gifts that have their Original from God or Nature, as the Power of the Father bath, no inferior Power of Man can limit, nor make any Law of Prescription against them, O. 158 [233].

The Scripture teaches, that supreme Power was Originally in the Father without any Limitation, O. 245 [234].

§ 6 4 Caput inter nubila—head in the clouds.

6 Compare II, § 195, 5-7.

8-10 I Peter ii. 13, ‘submit yourselves to every ordinance of men’ (νθρωπνκτσ∈ι). Compare the second Letter on Toleration (Works, 1801, VI, 121).

11-23 Implying that Locke had dealt with the Other Treatises’ when he decided to analyse Patriarcha, see above, p. 59, note † and references.

29 Bellarmine. Filmer directed much of his argument against Cardinal Bellarmine’s subordinating secular power to the papacy in his De Vatéstate Summi Pontifici, 1610—see Laslett, 1949; Mcllwain, 1918.

43-4 Not a quotation, but a summary of Patriarcha, 57-8.

48 ‘first Chapter’, i.e. paragraphs i-viii of Patriarcha in Laslett’s edition, where there are no chapters since it reproduces Filmer’s manuscript which lacks them.

51 ‘in another place’; see 1, § 11, 31 note and references.

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