Part I, Chapter 6
Defines deliberation as the alternation of appetites and aversions, and the will as 'the last Appetite in Deliberating' - denying a separate faculty of free will.
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From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes is a compatibilist: liberty is the absence of external impediments to motion, compatible with necessity; will is the last appetite in deliberation, not a free faculty.
Part II, Chapter 21
Defines liberty as 'the absence of externall Impediments,' compatible with fear and necessity; a free man is one not hindered to do what he has the will to do. Also discusses the true liberties of subjects.
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