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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

LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY

Ammianus Marcellinus. History. Translated by J. C. Rolfe. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1935.

Appian. Roman History. Translated by Horace White. 4 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1913.

Caesar. Bellum Gallicum [The Gallic War]. Translated by H. J. Edwards. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1917.

Cicero. Cicero vol. 3. On the Orator, Books 1–2. Translated by E. W. Sutton and H. Rackham. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959.

———. Cicero vol. 4. On the Orator, Book 3. On Fate. Stoic Paradoxes. Divisions of Oratory. Translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959.

———. Cicero vol. 18. Tusculan Disputations. Translated by J. E. King. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1945.

Ovid. Tristia. Ex Ponto. Translated by A. L. Wheeler. Revised by G. P. Goold. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Plato. Laws 1–6. Translated by R. G. Bury. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1926.

———. Laws 7–12. Translated by R. G. Bury. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1926.

Scriptores Historiae Augustae. Translated by David Magie. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1922.

Suetonius. Suetonius vol. 1. Lives of the Caesars I. Edited and translated by J. C. Rolfe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1951.

Suetonius. Suetonius vol. 2. Lives of the Caesars II. Edited and translated by J. C. Rolfe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1951.

Tacitus. Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory.Agricola: translated by M. Hutton; revised by R. M. Ogilvie. Germania: translated by M. Hutton; revised by E. H. Warmington. Dialogue on Oratory: translated by W. Peterson; revised by M. Winterbottom. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.

———. Annals, Books 4–6, 11–12. Translated by John Jackson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1937, 1951.

———. Annals, Books 13–16. Translated by John Jackson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1937, 1951.

———. Histories, Books 4–5. Annals, Books 1–3. Translated by Clifford H. Moore and John Jackson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1962.

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