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A57360 The cabinet-council containing the cheif [sic] arts of empire and mysteries of state : discabineted in political and polemical aphorisms grounded on authority, and experience : and illustrated with the choicest examples and historical observations / by the ever-renowned knight, Sir Walter Raleigh ; published by John Milton, Esq.; Cabinet-council Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Milton, John, 1608-1674. 1658 (1658) Wing R156; ESTC R8392 78,451 210

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Tam Marti Quam Mercurio The true and lively Portraiture of the Hoble. and learned Knight Sr. Walter Ralegh Ro Vaughan sculp The Cabinet-Council Containing the Cheif ARTS OF EMPIRE And MYSTERIES of STATE DISCABINETED In Political and Polemical Aphorisms grounded on Authority and Experience And illustrated with the choicest Examples and Historical Observations By the Ever-renowned Knight Sir WALTER RALEIGH Published By JOHN MILTON Esq Quis Martem tunicâ tectum Adamantinâ dignè scripserit London Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Tho. Johnson at the sign of the Key in St. Pauls Churchyard near the west-West-end 1658. To the READER HAving had the Manuscript of this Treatise Written by Sir Walter Raleigh many years in my hands and finding it lately by chance among other Books and Papers upon reading thereof I thought it a kinde of injury to withhold longer the work of so eminent an Author from the Publick it being both answerable in Stile to other Works of his already Extant as far as the subject would permit and given me for a true Copy by a Learned Man at his Death who had Collected several such peices John Milton THE Principal Contents CHAP. I. THe Definition and Division of Publick Weals and Soveraign States according to their several Species or Kindes Pag. 1. Chap. 2. Of Soveraign or Monarchick Government with its essential Marks and specifical Differences Pag. 2. Chap. 3. Of Monarchies Seigniorile exemplified in the Turkish and West-Indian Empire Pag. 5. Chap. 4. Of Monarchies Royal with the Means to maintain them Pag. 7. Chap. 5. Of Monarchies Tyrannical Pag. 9. Chap. 6. Of new-found Monarchies and Principalities with the Means to perpetuate them Pag. 10. Chap. 7. Of Councils and Counsellors in general Pag. 14. Chap. 8. Of Councils in some particular Monarchies Aristocraties and Democraties Pag. 15. Chap. 9. Of Officers and Commissioners with their respective Distinctions Pag. 17. Chap. 10. Of Magistrates their Qualifications and Elections Pag. 18. Chap. 11. Observations intrinsically concerning every Publick State in Points of Justice Treasure and War P. 20. Chap. 12. Extrinsick Observations shewing how to deal with Neighbor Princes and Provinces respectively how to prevent their Designs and decypher their Intendments Pag. 24. Chap. 13. Observations confirmed by Authorities of Princes and Principalities charactering an excellent Prince or Governor Pag. 28. Chap. 14. Of the Princes intimate Counsellors and Ministers of State with their several Requisites Pag. 32. Chap. 15. The Art of Ruling or Mystery of Regiment Pag. 38. Chap. 16. Of Princely Authority wherein it consists and how far to be extended and delegated Pag. 40. Chap. 17. Of Power and Force and how to be raised and maintained P. 42. Chap. 18. Of Conspiracy and Treason with the causes and ways of prevention or discovery Pag. 44. Chap. 19. Of Publick Hate and Contempt with the occasions and means to redress and avoid it Pag. 47. Chap. 20. Of Diffidence and Dissimulation in the mannage of State Affairs Pag. 54. Chap. 21. Of War Defensive and Invasive with Instructions touching Laws of Arms Soldiers and Military Discipline Pag. 56. Chap. 22. Of Generals and Commanders and their requisite Abilities in Martial enterprises and expeditions Pag. 67. Chap. 23. Of Councils in War and Directions Tactick and Stratagematick with advice how to make an honorable Peace Pag. 71. Chap. 24. Of Civil War with the Causes and Remedies thereof Pag. 80. Chap. 25. A Collection of Political Observations confirmed by Reason and Experience advertising Princes Statesmen and private persons how to demean themselves in all Fortunes and Events Pag. 88. Chap. 26. Maximes of State or Prudential Grounds and Polemical Precepts concerning all Estates and forms of Policy in times of Peace or War c. confirmed by select Narrations and Historical Parallels Pag. 153. THE Cabinet Council Containing the chief Arts of EMPIRE AND Mysteries of State CHAP. I. The Definition and Division of Publick Weales and Soveraign States according to their several species or kinds A Common-wealth is a certain Soveraign Government of many Families with those things that are common among them All Common-wealths are either Monarchies Aristocraties Democraties A Monarchie is that State where the Soveraignty resteth in the person of one only Prince An Aristocratie is where some small part of the people have in the● as a body corporate the Soveraignty and supream power of the whole State A Democrati● is where all the people have Power and Authority Soveraign So doth it appear that the place and person where the Soveraigntie resteth doth cause the State to be either a Monarchie an Aristocratie or Popular Government CHAP. II. Of Soveraign or Monarchick Government with its Essential markes and Specifical differences SOveraigntie is an absolute and perpetual power in every publike State and he is properly and only a Soveraign that acknowledgeth no Superior or Equal nor holdeth of any other Prince person or power but God and his own sword The First mark of Soveraigntie is absolute Power and Authority to command all Subjects in general and every of them in particular without consent of any other person or persons either greater or inferior to himself The Second mark of Majesty is Authority to make War and conclude Peace at his pleasure The Third is Power to bestow all Honors and cheif Offices at his pleasure The Fourth marke of Soveraigntie is Appellation The Fifth mark and last is power to pardon all Subjects by rigor of Law or otherwise condemned in Life Lands Goods or Honors These Powers are not to be imparted to any Officer Deputy or other Magistrate but in the Princes absence and for some urgent occasion Monarchies are of three sorts Signioril Royal Tyrannical The Diver●●tie of Monarchies doth no● proceed from the Nature of the State but the diverse proceedings of those Princes that governe for great difference there may be between the nature of the Common wealth and the Government thereof That Prince that giveth the Magistracies Honors and Offices without respect of Nobility Riches or Vertue may be said to governe popularly And that Monarchy may be said to b● governed Aristocratically when the Monarch imparteth the principal Honors and Offices to the Noble and Rich men only The same difference there is to be found in States Aristocratical and Popular for the one and the other may be both Signioril or Tyrannical A Monarch Signioril is he who by force of Arms and just War is made owner of mens bodies and goods and governeth them as a Master of a Familie governeth base Servants and Slaves A Monarch Royal is he whose Subjects are obedient unto his Laws and the Monarch himself obeyeth the Lawes of God and Nature suffering every Subject to enjoy liberty natural with property in Lands and Goods governing as a Father governeth his Children A Monarch Tyrannical is he who without regard to the Law of God or Nature commandeth Free-men as Slaves and useth their Lands and Goods as his own CHAP. III. Of Monarchie Signioril Exemplified in