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JAMES HARRINGTON, eldest son of Sir Sapcotes Harrington of Exton, in Rutlandshire, was born in the reign of James I, in January, 1661, five years before the death of Shakespeare. He was two or three years younger than John Milton. His great-grandfather was Sir James Harrington, who married Lucy, daughter of Sir William Sidney, lived with her to their golden wedding-day, and had eighteen children, through whom he counted himself, before his death, patriarch in a family that in his own time produced eight dukes, three marquises, seventy earls, twenty-seven viscounts, and thirty-six barons, sixteen of them all being Knights of the Garter. James Harrington's ideal. | Oceana 1 THE AKO OT HER WORKS o p Janies Harrington Eiq Collected Mtihodb. J and Review d WITH An Exait Account of his LIFE PREFIX DS By 7 o JV T o L jf aV X To which. w Ac APPENDIX untuning ail the Political TraỉU WI B by this Author Omitted in Mf. TolaniTỉ Eibrion. Lữ .V Ỉ1Ũ h- FlituJ i x JW -nr ii 1ĨCK1. . SJr n i in lhe UOCCXXXVEL Oceana by James Harrington INTRODUCTION TO OCEANA JAMES HARRINGTON eldest son of Sir Sapcotes Harrington of Exton in Rutlandshire was born in the reign of James I in January 1661 five years before the death of Shakespeare. He was two or three years younger than John Milton. His great-grandfather was Sir James Harrington who married Lucy daughter of Sir William Sidney lived with her to their golden wedding-day and had eighteen children through whom he counted himself before his death patriarch in a family that in his own time produced eight dukes three marquises seventy earls twenty-seven viscounts and thirty-six barons sixteen of them all being Knights of the Garter. James Harrington s ideal of a commonwealth was the design therefore of a man in many ways connected with the chief nobility of England. Sir Sapcotes Harrington married twice and had by each of his wives two sons and two daughters. James Harrington was eldest son by the first marriage which was to Jane daughter of Sir William Samuel of Upton in Northamptonshire. James Harrington s brother became a merchant of his half-brothers one went to sea the other became a captain in the army. As a child James Harrington was studious and so sedate that it was said playfully of him he rather kept his parents and teachers in awe than needed correction but in after-life his quick wit made him full of playfulness in conversation. In 1629 he entered Trinity College Oxford as a gentleman commoner. There he had for tutor by James Harrington 2 William Chillingworth a Fellow of the college who after conversion to the Church of Rome had reasoned his way back into Protestant opinions.