Authorities
- Connor, A Treatise of the Laws of Nature (London, 1727), and John Towers (Dublin, 1750); French translation by Jean Barbeyrac (Amsterdam, 1744)
- James Tyrrell (1642-1718), grandson of Archbishop Ussher, published an abridgment of Cumberland's views in A Brief Disquisition of the Laws of Nature according to the Principles laid down in the Rev. Dr Cumberland's Latin Treatise (London, 1692; ed. 1701)
For biographical details see:
- Squier Payne, Account of the Life and Writings of R. Cumberland (London, 1720); Cumberland's Memoirs (1807), i. 3-6
- Pepys's Diary
For his philosophy, see:
- Ernest Albee, Philosophical Review, iv: 3 (1895), pp. 264 and 371
- F. E. Spaulding, R. Cumberland als Begründer der englischen Ethik (Leipzig, 1894)
- Jon Parkin, Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England: Richard Cumberland's De Legibus Naturae (1999)
- Stephen Darwall, The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought' (1995), Chapter 4
- Linda Kirk, Richard Cumberland and Natural Law (Cambridge, James Clark, 1987)
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