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 of a Limited and Mixed Monarchy" and "Patriarcha," in which he endeavours to prove that all legal titles to govern are orginally [sic] derived from heads of families. One of the charges against Algernon Sidney was that there was found in his posession [sic] a MS. answer to this latter treatise, the principles of which were subsequently discussed by Locke in his Treatises on Government, in 1689. Filmer died in 1688 [sic].

[See "Wotton's Baronetage," (1771), "Hasted's Kent," "Hallam's Literature of Europe."]

SIR HENEAGE FINCH,

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

Was the son of Sir Moyle Finch of Eastwell, where he was probably born. He studied law at the Inner Temple, and was called to the Bar in 1606. In the following year he entered Parliament, where he took an active part in the Debates and Proceedings of the House, and was elected Speaker in the year 1625. Two years before that he was knighted and advanced to the Degree of Sergeant-at-Law. He died Dec. 5, 1631. He left a work in MS. on the Jurisdiction of Bishops.

[See Manning's "Lives of the Speakers."]

HENEAGE FINCH

EARL OF NOTTINGHAM,

Son of the preceding was born at Eastwell in 1621. He was educated at Westminster School, at Christ Church, Oxford and at the Inner Temple. During the reign of