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• The Thomas Hollis Library
• Introduction
• Robert Molesworth and Gothic Liberty
• The Life
• The Ideas
• The History and Reception of the Texts
• Editorial Apparatus
• Bibliographical Descriptions Editions, Translations, and Extracts, 1694–1789
• English Editions
• European Editions 1
• Textual Policy
• Italics
• Spelling and Footnotes
• List of Sources
• Further Reading
• Acknowledgments
• An Account of Denmark
• The Preface
• Chapter I: Of the Territories Belonging to the King of Denmark, and Their Situation
• Chapter II: Of Denmark In Particular, and the Island of Zealand
• Chapter III: Of the Sound
• Chapter IV: Of the Other Islands, and Jutland
• Chapter V: Of the Rest of the King of Denmark’s Countries
• Chapter VI: Of Their Form of Government
• Chapter VII: The Manner How the Kingdom of Denmark Became Hereditary and Absolute
• Chapter VIII: The Condition, Customs, and Temper of the People
• Chapter IX: Of the Revenue
• Chapter X: Of the Army, Fleet, and Fortresses
• Chapter XI: Of the Court
• Chapter XII: The Disposition and Inclinations of the King of Denmark Towards His Neighbours
• Chapter XIII: The Manner of Dispossessing, and Restoring the Duke of Holstein Gottorp
• Chapter XIV: The Interests of Denmark In Relation to Other Princes
• Chapter XV: Of the Laws, Courts of Justice, Etc.
• Chapter XVI: The State of Religion, of the Clergy, and Learning, Etc.
• The Conclusion
• Francogallia, Or an Account of the Ancient Free State of France
• The Preface to the Reader 1
• The Translator’s Preface 3
• A Short Extract of the Life of Francis Hotoman, Taken Out of Monsieur Bayle’ S Historical Dictionary and Other Authors.
• Explication of the Roman Names Mention’d By Hotoman
• The Author’s Preface
• Chapter I: The State of Gaul, Before It Was Reduced Into a Province By the Romans
• Chapter II: Probable Conjectures Concerning the Ancient Language of the Gauls
• Chapter III: The State of Gaul, After It Was Reduced Into the Form of a Province By the Romans
• Chapter IV: Of the Original of the Franks; Who Having Possessed Themselves of Gallia, Changed Its Name Into That of Francia, Or Francogallia
• Chapter V: Of the Name of the Franks, and Their Sundry Excursions; and What Time They First Began to Establish a Kingdom In Gallia
• Chapter VI: Whether the Kingdom of Francogallia Was Hereditary Or Elective; and the Manner of Making Its Kings
• Chapter VII: What Rule Was Observ’d Concerning the Inheritance of the Deceased King, When He Left More Children Than One
• Chapter VIII: Of the Salick Law, and What Right Women Had In the King ’s Their Father’s Inheritance
• Chapter IX: Of the Right of Wearing a Large Head of Hair Peculiar to the Royal Family
• Chapter X: The Form and Constitution of the Francogallican Government
• Chapter XI: Of the Sacred Authority of the Publick Council; and What Affairs Were Wont to Be Transacted Therein
• Chapter XII: Of the Kingly Officers, Commonly Call’d Mayors of the Palace
• Chapter XIII: Whether Pipin Was Created King By the Pope Or By the Authority of the Francogallican Council
• Chapter XIV: Of the Constable, and Peers of France
• Chapter XV: Of the Continued Authority and Power of the Sacred Council, During the Reign of the Carolingian Family
• Chapter XVI: Of the Capetian Race, and the Manner of Its Obtaining the Kingdom of Francogallia
• Chapter XVII: Of the Uninterrupted Authority of the Publick Council During the Capetian Race
• Chapter XVIII: Of the Remarkable Authority of the Council Against Lewis the Eleventh
• Chapter XIX: Of the Authority of the Assembly of the States Concerning the Most Important Affairs of Religion 97
• Chapter XX: Whether Women Are Not As Much Debarred (by the Francogallican Law) From the Administration, As From the Inheritance of the Kingdom
• Chapter XXI: Of the Juridical Parliaments In France
• Some Considerations For the Promoting of Agriculture and Employing the Poor
• To the Gentlemen of the Honourable House of Commons of Ireland
• Some Considerations For the Promoting of Agriculture, Etc.
• Appendix 1
• Selected Sources Cited In Francogallia
• Loeb Classical Library
• Appendix 2
• Ordonnance Pour Les Rangs Du Royaume De Danemarck

FURTHER READING

• Bond, William Henry. Thomas Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn: A Whig and His Books. Sandars Lectures in Bibliography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
• Brown, Michael. “Francis Hutcheson and the Molesworth Connection.” Eighteenth-century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr 14 (1999): 62–76.
• Champion, Justin. Republican Learning: John Toland and the Crisis of Christian Culture, 1696–1722. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003.
• ———. “Enlightened Erudition and the Politics of Reading in John Toland’s Circle.” Historical Journal 49 (2006): 111–41.
• Ellis, Harold A. “Genealogy, History, and Aristocratic Reaction in Early 18th Century France: The Case of Henri de Boulainvilliers.” Journal of Modern History 58 (1986): 414–51.
• ———. Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy: Aristocratic Politics in EarlyEighteenth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
• Goldie, Mark. “The Revolution of 1689 and the Structure of Political Argument: An Essay and an Annotated Bibliography of Pamphlets on the Allegiance Controversy.” Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 83 (1980): 473–564.
• ———. “The Roots of True Whiggism 1688–94.” History of Political Thought 1 (1980): 195–236.
• ———. “The English System of Liberty.” In The Cambridge History ofEighteenth-Century Political Thought, edited by Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler, 40–78. The Cambridge History of Political Thought series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Hayton, D. W. “The Personal and Political Contexts of Robert Molesworth’s Account of Denmark.”; In Northern Antiquities and National Identities: Perceptions of Denmark and the North in the Eighteenth Century, edited by K. Haakonssen and H. Horstboll, 41–67 (text) and 311–16 (notes). [Copenhagen]: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2008.
• Hotman, François. Francogallia. Edited by Ralph E. Giesey. Translated by J. M. H. Salmon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
• Kelley, Donald R. François Hotman: A Revolutionary’s Ordeal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.
• Kenyon, J. P. Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party, 1689–1720. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
• Kidd, C. “Northern Antiquity: The Ethnology of Liberty in Eighteenth Century Europe.” In Northern Antiquities and National Identities: Perceptions of Denmark and the North in the Eighteenth Century, edited by K. Haakonssen and H. Horstboll, 19–40 (text) and 307–11 (notes). [Copenhagen]: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2008.
• Klaits, Joseph. Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion: Printed Propaganda Under Louis XIV. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.
• Marshall, Peter. “Thomas Hollis (1720–74): The Bibliophile as Libertarian.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 66 (1984): 246–63.
• O’Kane, Finola. Landscape Design in Eighteenth Century Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press, 2005.
• Olden-Jorgensen, S. “Robert Molesworth’s Account of Denmark: A Political Scandal and Its Literary Aftermath.” In Northern Antiquities and National Identities: Perceptions of Denmark and the North in the Eighteenth Century, edited by K. Haakonssen and H. Horstboll, 68–87. [Copenhagen]: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2008.
• Patterson, Annabel. Early Modern Liberalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• ———. Nobody’s Perfect: A New Whig Interpretation of History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
• Pocock, J. G. A. The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. Reissued 1987.
• ———. Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History,Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
• Pocock, J. G. A., ed. The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500–1800. With the assistance of Gordon J. Schochet and Lois G. Schwoerer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Robbins, Caroline. “Library of Liberty: Assembled for Harvard College by Thomas Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn.” Harvard Library Bulletin 5 (1951): 5–23, 181–96.
• ———. The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II Until the War with the Thirteen Colonies. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1959. Reprint, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004.
• ———. “The Strenuous Whig, Thomas Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn.” William andMary Quarterly 7 (1950): 406–53.
• ———. “Thomas Brand Hollis, 1719–1804, English Admirer of Franklin and Intimate of John Adams.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 97 (1953): 239–47.
• Rudolph, Julia. Revolution by Degrees: James Tyrrell and Whig Political Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
• Salmon, J. H. M. The French Religious Wars in English Political Thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.
• Scott, Jonathan. Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Stewart, M. A. “John Smith and the Molesworth Circle.” Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr 2 (1987): 89–102.
• Worden, Blair. “Republicanism and the Restoration, 1660–1683.” In Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649–1776, edited by David Wootton, 139–93. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
• ———. “The Revolution of 1688–1689 and the English Republican Tradition.” In The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact, edited by Jonathan Israel, 241–77. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• ———. Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil War and the Passions of Posterity. London: Penguin, 2002.
• ———. “Whig History and Puritan Politics: The Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Revisited.” Historical Research 75 (2002): 209–37.