¹ The book first appeared in 1576. The earliest edition I have seen bears the date 1577. This extract is from Book I, chapter 8.

² Bk. I, ch. 10.

³ Bk. II, ch. 2.

⁴ In the French. The Latin has feudum, and iura feudorum are the rights exercised by a dominus.

⁵ In the same passage Miss Tooley has it that, after the invasions, ‘they then gradually established rights of overlordship’ (p. 58). A literal rendering of the French (the Latin agreeing) would be, ‘little by little they contented themselves with rights.…’ Miss Tooley's phrase seems to put the process in reverse.

⁶ Bodin's theoretical statement on covenants, Tooley, p. 30.

⁷ Miss Tooley's version says briefly (pp. 55–6): ‘Since the King of Poland has been compelled to share sovereign power with the nobility, that kingdom has never enjoyed any secure peace. The same is true of Sweden.…’

⁸ Tooley, p. 56.

⁹ Tooley, p. 28.

¹⁰ Tooley, p. 31.

¹¹ Tooley, p. 35.

¹² Tooley, p. 86: ‘If his instructions simply require him to execute an order, he has no option but to obey, except the letters be notoriously null and void, or contrary to the laws of nature, such as was Pharaoh's and Agrippa's commands to slaughter the innocents, or in our own days those of the Marquis Albert to rob and despoil the poor.’

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¹⁹ Attention is drawn to Hancke, E., Eine Studie über den Begriff der Souverainität (Breslau, 1894)Google Scholar, and Chauviré, R., Jean Bodin, auteur de la ‘Republique’ (Paris, 1914).Google Scholar To these must be added Miss Tooley's limpid introduction, which has also a bibliography.