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 are born in ubjection to their parents, and therefore cannot be free. And this authority of parents, he calls royal authority, p. 12, 14. Fatherly authority, right of fatherhood, p. 12, 20. One would have thought he would, in the beginning of uch a work as this, on which was to depend the authority of princes, and the obedience of ubjects, have told us exprely, what that fatherly authority is, have defined it, though not limited it, becaue in ome other treaties of his he tells us, it is unlimited, and unlimitable; he hould at leat have given us uch an account of it, that we might have had an entire notion of this fatherhood, or fatherly authority, whenever it came in our way in his writings: this I expected to have found in the firt chapter of his Patriarcha. But intead thereof, having, 1. en paant, made his obeyance to the arcana imperii, p. 5. 2. made his compliment to the rights and liberties of this, or any other nation, p. 6. which he is going preently to null and detroy; and, 3. made his leg to thoe learned men, who did not ee o far into the matter as himelf, p. 7. he comes to fall on Bel-  larmine,