page_title: James Harrington (author)
section_title: Notes
hierarchical_section_title: James Harrington (author) / Notes
caption_attribution_description: English: Blue plaque on the Rectory Lane Manor House, Milton Malsor, England This image represents an Open Plaques entry&#160;#28279.
context_page_description: James Harrington was an English political theorist of classical republicanism. He is best known for his controversial publication The Commonwealth of Oceana. This work was an exposition on an ideal constitution, designed to facilitate the development of a utopian republic.
context_section_description: "England's premier civic humanist and Machiavellian. He was not the first to think about English politics in these terms..., but he was the first to achieve a paradigmatic restatement of English political understanding in the language and world-view inherited through Machiavelli." Pocock, "Intro", p. 15.
  "James Harrington". Milton Malsor Historical Society. Retrieved 22 March 2008.
  Edward Chaney, The Grand Tour and the Great Rebellion: Richard Lassels and 'The Voyage of Italy' in the Seventeenth Century (Geneva, 1985), pp. 285–86)
  Pocock writes that this explanation of Cromwellian censorship "has the authority of family tradition, but is not especially convincing." More credible, he finds, is that Oceana criticizes the Protectorate's maintenance of a standing army (in order to hold power), a concept clearly denounced in Oceana and other English republican tracts of the time, in favor of locally controlled regiments (militia). Pocock, "Intro", 8–9.
  the Rota being "a select debating society" which conducted "high quality discussions" where "proposals were formally voted on" by members of "salience", which may have included Samuel Pepys. Höpfl, ODNB, p. 388.
  The Oceana and other Works of James Harrington, with an account of his Life by John Toland.
  Pocock, "Intro", p. xv.
  a "circle of Commonwealthsmen [radical republican] 'plotters'." Höpfl, ODNB, p. 390.
  tincture of the lingum resin of a West Indies tree, "best known as a remedy in gout and rheumatism and as a diuretic." see John Henry Clarke, M.D., Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica.
  Historic England. "Church of St Michael, Upton (1372152)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
caption: Blue plaque, installed 4 October 2008, marking the Manor House  of Milton Malsor where Harrington lived
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