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had been taken by Harrington to come from the whole group of Oxford experimentalists around Wilkins (to which Wren belonged, as did his more famous cousin
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describes him as the leading contemporary opponent of Harrington, and an illustration in his views of the theory of
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Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century
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writes that Wren reversed the relation between politics and economics found in Harrington. According to
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Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752
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named in Charles II's original charter, dated 15 July 1662, and was a prominent member of the Society.
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and therefore both a beneficiary and supporter of the transatlantic slave trade.
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in 1672 and died on his return to Greenwich. He was buried with his father at
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and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cutler of Ipswich, and therefore cousin of
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Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall
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1659 8vo, 2nd edit. 1660, 8vo, to which Harrington replied in his
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Monarchy Asserted. In Vindication of the Considerations,
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Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers
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He was the eldest child of the Royalist Bishop of Ely
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Index

James Harrington
monarchist
Thomas Hobbes
Matthew Wren
Sir Christopher Wren
Peterhouse, Cambridge
University of Oxford
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
St. Michael
James, Duke of York
Battle of Solebay
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge
Royal Society
The African Company
J. G. A. Pocock
possessive individualism
C. B. Macpherson
Francis D. Wormuth
I. Bernard Cohen
English Revolution
John Wilkins
Christopher Wren
Andrew Pyle
"Wren, Matthew (WRN642M)"



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