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Excellencie of a Free-State: Or, The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth, edited and with an Introduction by Blair Worden (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2011).

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THE ENDNOTES

The endnotes that follow are signaled in the text of this edition (see p. cvii). They reproduce the words and passages of Mercurius Politicus (MP) that were altered in the 1656 edition of The Excellencie (E). (Politicus does not have the headings of the sections into which The Excellencie is divided.)

In the cause of intelligibility, all the English-language material from Politicus is given in roman type, even though much of the original is in italic. The print of Politicus is not always clear, and occasionally the transcription of the text has to be conjectural.

[MP 71, 9-16 Oct. 1651]

[MP 73, 23-30 Oct. 1651]

[MP 72, 16-23 Oct. 1651]

[MP 70, 2-9 Oct. 1651]

[MP 68, 18-25 Sep. 1651]

[MP 37, 13-20 Feb. 1651]

[MP 77, 20-27 Nov. 1651]

[MP 78, 27 Nov.-4 Dec. 1651]

[MP 79, 4-11 Dec. 1651]

[MP “79” (80), 11-18 Dec. 1651]

[MP 81, 18-25 Dec. 1651]

[MP 82, 25 Dec. 1651-1 Jan. 1652]

[MP 83, 1-8 Jan. 1652]

[MP 84, 8-15 Jan. 1652]

[MP 85, 15-22 Jan. 1652]

[MP 86, 22-29 Jan. 1652]

[MP 87, 29 Jan.-5 Feb. 1652]

[MP 88, 5-12 Feb. 1652]

[MP 91, 26 Feb.-4 Mar. 1652]

[MP 92, 4-11 Mar. 1652]

[MP 93, 11-18 Mar. 1652]

[MP 94: 18-25 Mar. 1652]

[MP 95, 25 Mar.-1 Apr. 1652]

[MP 96, 1-8 Apr. 1652]

[MP 97, 8-15 Apr. 1652]

[MP 98, 15-22 Apr. 1652]

[MP 99, 22-29 Apr. 1652]

[MP 100, 29 Apr.-6 May 1652]

[MP 101, 6-13 May 1652]

[MP 102, 13-20 May 1652]

[MP 103, 20-27 May 1652]

[MP 104, 27 May-3 June 1652]

[MP 105, 3-10 June 1652]

[MP 106, 10-17 June 1652]

[MP 107, 17-24 June 1652]

[MP 108, 24 June-1 July 1652]

[MP 109, 1-8 July 1652]

[MP 110, 8-15 July 1652]

[MP 111, 15-22 July 1652]

[MP 112, 22-29 July 1652]

[MP 113, 29 July-5 Aug. 1652]

CHAP. XVIII.

In what manner Princes ought to keep their words.

How commendable