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  been alo made by kings, was this; when kings were either buied with wars, or ditracted with public cares, o that every private man could not have acces to their perons, to learn their wills and pleaure, then were laws of neceity invented, that o every particular ubject might find his prince's pleaure decyphered unto him in the tables of his laws, p. 92. In a monarchy, the king mut by neceity be above the laws, p. 100. A perfect kingdom is that, wherein the king rules all things according to his own will, p. 100. Neither common nor tatute laws are, or can be, any diminution of that general power, which kings have over their people by right of fatherhood, p. 115. Adam'' was the father, king, and lord over his family; a on, a ubject, and a ervant or lave, were one and the ame thing at firt. The father had power to dipoe or ell his children or ervants; whence we find, that the firt reckoning up of goods in cripture, the man-ervant and the maid-ervant, are numbrednumbered [sic] among the poeions and ubtance of the owner, as other goods were, Obervations, Pref. God alo hath given to the father a right or liberty, to alien his power over his children to any other; whence we find the ale and gift of children to have much been in ue in the beginning of the world, when men had their ervants for a poeion and an inheritance, as well as other goods; whereupon we find the power of catrating and making eunuchs much in ue in old times,'' Ob- ervations