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The common-wealth of Oceana
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Harrington, James, 1611-1677.
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like burden to be sent unto their relief Whereupon Teleclides the Man at that time of most Authority in the Common-wealth of Corinth stood up and giving an Exhortation unto Timâ—â—eon how he should behave himself in his Expedition told him that if he restored the Sicilians unto Liberty it would be acknowledged that he had destroyed a Tyrant if otherwise he must expect to hear that he had murdered a King Timoleon taking his leave with a very small Provision for so great a design pursued it with a Courage not inferior to and a felicity beyond any that had been known unto that day in mortall flesh having in the space of eight years utterly rooted out of all Sicely those Weeds of Tyranny through the destraction whereof Men fled in such abundance from their Native Country that whole Cities were left desolate and brought it unto such a passe that others through the fame of his Virtues and the excellency of the soyle flockt as fast from all Quarters unto it as to the Garden of the World While he being presented by the people of Sâ—racusa with his Town house and his Country retreat the sweetest Places in either lived with his Wife and Children a most quiet happy and holy life for he attributed no part of his successe unto himself but all unto the blessing and providence of the Gods As he past his time in this manner admired and honoured by mankind Laphystius an envious Demagog going to summon him upon some pretence or other to answer for himself before the Assembly the people fell into such a Mutiny as could not be appeased but by Timoleon who understanding the matter reproved them by repeating the pains and travail which he had gone through unto no other end then that every Man might have the free use of the Lawes Wherefore when Demaenetus another Demagog had brought the same design about again and blamed him impertinently unto the people for things which he did when he was Generall Timoleon answered nothing but raising up his hands gave the Gods thanks for their return unto his frequent prayers that he might but live to see the Syracusans so free that they might question on whom they pleased Not long after being old through some naturall imperfection he fell blind but the Syracusans by their perpetuall visits held him though he could not see their greatest object if there arrived strangers they brought them to see this sight Whatever came in debate at the assembly if it were of small consequence they determined it themselves but if of importance they alwayes sent for Timoleon who being brought by his Servants in a Chair and set in the middle of the Theater there ever follow'd a great shout after which some time was allow'd for the Benedictions of the People and then the matter proposed when Tinolcon had spoken to it was put to the Suffrage which giveâ— his Servants bore him back in his Chair accompanied by the People clapping their hands and making all expression of joy and applause till leaving him at his House they returned unto the dispatch of their businesse And this was the life of Thimoleon till he dyed of age and dropped like a mature fruit while the eyes of the people were as the showres of Autumne The Life and Death of my Lord Archon save that he had his senses unto the last and that his Character is not the Restorer but the Founder of a Common-wealth was greater is so exactly the same again that seeing by Men wholly ignorant of Antiquity I am accused of writing Romance I shall repeat nothing but tell you that this year the whole Nation of Oceana even unto the women and children was in mourning where so great or sad a pomp of Funerall had never been seen or known Sometime after the performance of the Exequies a Colossus mounted upon a brazen Horse of excellent Fabrick was erected in the Piazza of the Pantheon ingraved with this Inscription on the Eastern side of the Pedestall HIS NAME IS AS Precious Oyntment And on the Western with this Grata Patra Piae et perpetuae memoriae D. D. Olphaus Megaletor Lord Archon and sole Legislator of OCEANA Pater Patriae Jnvincible in the Field Jnviolable in his Faith Vnfained in his Zeale Jmmortall in his Fame The Greatest of Captaines The Best of Princes The Happiest of Legislators The Most Sincere of Christians Who setting the Kingdomes of the Earth at Liberty Tooke the Kingdome of the Heav'ns by Violence Anno Aetat suae 116. Anno Hujus Reipub 50. Plinie's Description of Oceana The Nature of the people Essay 29. The Nature of the Marpesians The nature of the Panopeans Situation of the Common-wealth of Oceana Definitions of Government Page 180. Page 377. Page 111. Division of Government Goods of the Mind and of Fortune Empire and Authority Empire Division of Empire Dominion Domestick Empire Ballance in Lands Absolute Monarchy Mixed Monarchy Popular Government Tyranny Oligarchy Anarchy Ballance in money Page 89. Arms and Contracts Page 90. Page 89. B. 5.3.3.9 D. B. 1. C. 55. The right of the Militia stated Ballance of forraign Empire Authority Eccl. 10.15 Tacit. Grot. Page 110. Hooker B. 1. Grot. The orders of popular Government in Nature Deut. 1.13 The People The Magistracy The Orders of a Common-wealth in experience as that Of Israel The People The Senate The Magistracy Of Lacedemon Of Carthage Of Rome Of Venice Of Switz Holland Page 170. Division of Common-Wealths Equal Agrarian Rotation Prolongation of Magistracy Ballot Definition of an equall Common-wealth Disc. B. 1. C. 55. Unequall Common-wealth Deut. 1. De Legibus Deut. 17. Deut. 18.10 2 Kings 1. 1 King 18.19 De Judiciis The transition of Ancient into Modern Prudence The Agrarian Lawes of the Romans Sigonius de Ant. Ro. Military Colonies The Ballance of the Roman Empire Dion Prince cap. 19. Machiavil The Gothick Ballance Institution of Feudatory Principalities For the proof of the ensuing discourse out of Records and Antiquities See Selden's Titles of Honour from page 593. to pag. 837. The Teuton Monarchy Earles Kings Thane Middle-Thane Shiremoot Halymoot Weidenagamoots 25 Edw. 3. Cap. 1. Monarchy of the Neustrians Their Earls 27 H. 8. Their Barons Barons by their possessions Cook 11. Inst. pag. 596. Ballance of the Neustrian Monarchy 4 Rich. 2. Num. 13. Administration of the Neustrian Monarchy during the raigne of the first kings Barons by Writ 49 H. 3. Barons by Letters Patents Dissolution of the late Monarchy of Oceana The generation of the Common-wealth What Prudence is The Royalist The Commonwealths man Religious parties Saints Livy 4.8 * the Errors of the people are from their Governours Lib. 8. The General Des. B. 1. c 9. That a Legislator is to be one That a Common-wealth is to be made at once Suidas Exo. 18.24 Numb 1.16 Math. Crag de Rep. Lac. Lib. 1. Cap. 6. Halicar Sigonius Institution of the Common-wealth Divisions of the People Into Freemen and Servants Into Youth and Elders Into Horse and Foot into Parishes Hundreds and Tribes The use and method of the Surveyors Institution of the Parishes of the Ballot and of the Deputies Jos. 24.1 Act. 14.23 Definition of a Parish Institution of the Hundred Definition of the Hundred Institution of the Tribe of the Pavilion The whole Charge of the Institution Institution of the Prime Magnitude Functions of the Magistrates of the Prime Magnitude Functions of the Phylarch Institution of the Roll called the Pillar of Nilus Institution of the Gallaxy Definition of the Tribe Constitution of the Common-wealth Arist. Pol. 1.3 c. 9. Pol. l. 5. c. 3. Liv. in praef The face of the Senate Constitution of the Senate Tropick of the Magistrates Of the Strategus Of the Orator Of the Censors Of the Commissioners of the Seal Of the Commissioners of the Treasury Of the Signory Constitution of the Councils Of the Council of State Of the Council of Warr. Of the Council of Religion Of the Council of Trade Of the Provosts Of the Councill of the Provosts Constitution of the Biennial Election or Orbe of Embassadors in ordinary Constitution of Election Extraordinary or by the Scruteny Instructions for the Councils as to their Subject Matter For the Council of State For the Council of War For the Council of Religion For the Council of Trade For the Academy of the Provosts For the Attendance of the Councils For the Dictator Livy Instructions for the Councils as to their Manner of Proceeding Livy The Face of the Prerogative Tribe The change or Election of the Triennial Officers of the Prerogative The Change or Election of the Annual Magistrates of the Prerogative Liv. l. 2. Mach. disc B. 1. C. 6. Arist. Pol. B. 2 Plutarch in the Life of Lycurgus Val. Max. l. 4. Liv. The Constitution Function and Manner of Proceeding of the Praerogative Constitution of the Provincial part of the Senate and the People Constitution of the Parliament Prov. 31. The Government of Emporium The City Tribes and Wards Wardmot The Liveries The Companies Common-Halls Election of Aldermen and of the Common Councill men The Court of Aldermen The Common-Councill The Common-Hall The Election of the Lord Maior and Sheriffs Some conveniences in this alteration The Government of Hiera The Court. The High Steward Cicero Cicero Acts 17..18 Judg. 20.9 Valerius 1 Sam. 11.7 Livy Constitution of the Civill part of the Provinciall Orbe Constitution of the Military part of the Provinciall Orbe Deut. 20 2 Sam 30.24 Dis. B. 3. C. 22. B. 3 C. 29. Dis. B. 1. C. 18 Prov. 20.14 Disc. B. 2. C. 4. Cicero * This by the pay of a Parliamentary Army is demonstrated in the Corrollary Epitome of the whole Common wealth Trajno a Boccalini Centuria 1. Ragnal 21. See the course of the Decemvirs in the promulgation of the first ten of their twelve Tables in Livy Arist. Rhet. * Hobb Plutarch in the Life of Timoleon
people whose Civill and Military functions proper unto this place are comprised in the foregoing order Having stated the hundreds they met once againe by twenties where there was nothing more easy then to cast every twenty hundreds as they lay most conveniently together into one Tribe so the whole Territory of Oceana consisting of about ten thousand Parishes came to be cast into one thousand hundreds and into fifty tribes In every Tribe at the place appointed for the Annuall Randevouze of the same were then or soone after put in hand those buildings which are now called Pavilions each of them standing with one open side upon fair Columnes like the porch of some ancient Temple and looking into a field capable of the muster of some foure-thousand men before each Pavilion stand three pillars sustaining urnes for the Ballot that on the right hand equall in height to the brow of an Horse-man being called the Horse urn that on the left hand with Bridges on either side to bring it Equall in height with the brow of a foot-man being called the Foot-urn and the middle urne with a bridge on the side towards the Foot-urn the other side as left for the horse being without one and here ended the whole worke of the Surveyours who returned unto the Lord Archon with this Accompt of the Charge Imprimis Urns Balls and Ballotting Boxes for ten thousand Parishes the same being woodden ware l. 20000. s. 0 Item Provisions of like kind for a thousand Hundreds 3000 0 Item Urns and Balls of Metall with Ballotting Boxes for Fifty Tribes 2000 0 Item for erecting of Fifty Pavilions 60000 0 Item Wages for Four Surveyors General at 1000 l. a man 4000 0 Item Wages for the rest of the Surveyors being 1000 at 250 l. a man 250000 0 Sum Totall 339000 0 No great matter of charge for the building of a Common-wealth in regard that it hath cost which was pleaded by the Surveyors as much to rigg a few ships neverthelesse that proveth not them to be honest nor their accompt to be just but they had their money for once though their reckoning be plainly guilty of a Crime to cost him his neck that Commits it another time it being impossible for a Common-wealth without an exact provision that she be not abused in this kind to subsist if it were not in regard of the charge though that may goe deepe yet in regard of the debauchery and corruption whereunto by negligence in her accounts she infallibly exposeth her Citizens and thereby slakeneth the publique Faith which is the Nerve and ligament of Government But the Surveyors being dispatched the Lord Archon was very curious in giving names unto his Tribes which having caused to be written in scroles cast unto an urne and presented unto the Councellours each of them drew one and was accordingly sent unto the Tribe in his Lot as Orators of the same a magistracy no otherwise instituted then for once and Protempore to the end that the Councill upon so great an occasion might both Congralute with the Tribes and assiist at the first muster in some things of necessity to be differently carried from the established administration and future course of the Common-wealth The Orators being arrived every one as soone as might be at the Randevouze of his Tribe gave notice to the hundreds and summoned the muster which appeared for the most part upon good horses and already indifferently well Armed as to instance in one for all the Tribe of Nubia where Hermes de Caducea Lord Orator of the same after a short salutation and an hearty wellcome applyed himself unto his businesse which began with order 8 The Eighth Order requiring That the Lord High Sheriffe as Commander in Chief and the Lord Custos Rotulorum as Muster-master of the Tribe or the Orator for the first Muster upon Reception of the Lists of their Hundreds returned unto them by the High Constables of the same forthwith cause them to be cast up dividing the Horse from the Foot and listing the Horse by their names in Troops each Troop containing about a hundred in number to be inscribed first second or third Troop c. according to the Order Agréed upon by the said Magistrates which done they shall list the Foot in like manner and inscribe the Companies in like order These Lists upon the Eve of the Muster shall be delivered unto certain Trumpetors and Drummers whereof there shall be Fiftéen of each sort as well for the present as other uses to be hereafter mentioned stipendiated by the Tribe and the Trumpeters and Drummers shall be in the Field before the Pavilion upon the day of the muster so soon as it is light where they shall stand every one with his List in his hand at a due distance placed according unto the order of the List the Trumpeters with the Lists of the Horse on the right hand and the Drummers with the lists of the Foot on the left hand where having sounded a while each of them shall begin to call and continue calling the names of the Deputies as they come into the Field till both the Horse and Foot be gathered by that means into their due order The Horse and Foot being in order the Lord Lievtenant of the Tribe shall cast so many Gold Balls marked with the figures 1.2.3.4 c. as there be Troops of Horse in the Field together with so many silver Balls as there be Companies marked in the same manner into a little Urn whereunto he shall call the Captains and the Captains drawing the Gold Balls shall command the Horse and those that draw the Silver the Foot each in the order of his Lot The like shall be done by the Conductor at the same time for the Ensigns at another Urn and they that draw the Gold Balls shall be Cornets the rest Ensigns This order may Trash the reader but tends unto a wonderfull speed of the Muster to which it would be a great matter to lose a day in ranging and martialling whereas by vertue of this the Tribe is no sooner in the feild then in Battalia nor sooner in Battalia then called unto the Urns or the Ballot by vertue of order 9 The Ninth Order whereby the Censors or the Orator for the first Muster upon Reception of the Lists of the Hundreds from the High Constables according as is directed by the Seventh Order are to make their notes for the Urns before-hand with regard had unto the Lists of the Magistrates to be elected by the ensuing Orders that is to say by the first List called the Prime Magnitude six and by the second called the Gallaxy nine Wherefore the Censors are to put into the middle Urn for the Election of the first List twenty four Gold Balls with twenty six blanks or silver Balls in all sixty and into the side Urns sixty gold-balls divided unto each according unto the different number of the Horse and the Foot that is