, son of sir Edward Filmer, of East Sutton, in Kent, by Elizabeth
, son of sir Edward Filmer, of
East Sutton, in Kent, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of
Richard Argall, esq. was born in the end of the sixteenth,
century, and educated in Trinity-college, in Cambridge,
of which he was matriculated July 5, 1604. His works
are, 1 “The Anarchy of a limited and mixed Monarchy,
”
Treatise on Monarchy,
” printed in 1C43. Sir Robert’s work was reprinted
in 1652 and 1679, 8vo. 2. “Patriarcha,
” in which he
endeavours to prove, that all government was monarchical
at first, and that all legal titles to govern are originally derived from the heads of families, or from such upon whom
their right was transferred, either by cession or failure of
the line. He also wrote, “The Freeholders’ Grand Inquest, &c.
” On the trial of the celebrated Sidney, it was
made a charge that they found in his possession a manuscript answer to Filmer’s “Patriarcha,
” but this was afterwards more completely answered by Locke, in his “Two
Treatises on Government,
” published in