------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. The many instances of italic text are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Title page use of blackletter text uses the ‘=’ as a delimiter. Marginal sidenotes which spanned multiple pages were often repeated on each page. These have been removed. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. THE ENGLISH WORKS OF THOMAS HOBBES. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE ENGLISH WORKS OF THOMAS HOBBES OF MALMESBURY; NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND EDITED BY SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, BART. --- VOL. IV. --- LONDON: JOHN BOHN, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. --- MDCCCXL. LONDON: C. RICHARDS, PRINTER, ST. MARTIN'S LANE. CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. ------- PAGE TRIPOS; in Three Discourses: I. Human Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policy 1 II. De Corpore Politico, or the Elements of Law 77 III. Of Liberty and Necessity 229 An Answer to Bishop Bramhall’s Book, called “The Catching of the Leviathan” 279 An Historical Narration concerning Heresy, and the Punishment thereof 385 Considerations upon the Reputation, Loyalty, Manners, and Religion of Thomas Hobbes 409 Answer to Sir William Davenant’s Preface before “Gondibert” 441 Letter to the Right Honourable Edward Howard 458 HOBBES' TRIPOS IN =Three Discourses.= THE FIRST, HUMAN NATURE: THE SECOND, DE CORPORE POLITICO: