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    Jonas Proast , Chaplain of All Souls , Oxford , who had written against the first . He now , also , published , in defence of the Revolution , * Two Treatises on GoveriMiient . " The former controverts the principles of Sir R * Filinens Pa . triarelui . The

    second describes the " True Original , Extent and End of Civil Government / 1 These were the beginning * and close of a larger work , concerning ivhich the author says , *• what fete has otherwise disposed of the papers , that should have fitted up the middle , &nd were rnore 4 han all the rest , 'tis 1

    not worth while to tell . * ( Preface . ) Mr . Locke had received from the new government , a place worth about £% OO per year , which satisfied him . He had also been invited to € * be

    envoy , at the Court of the Emperor , of the Elector of Branden-burgh , or of any other , where lie thought the air most suitable to him ; but he waved all these on account of the infirm state of his health , " On the same account

    he was obliged to give np a constant residence in London , after having tried the relief of occasional visits to the Earl of Peterborough at Fulham . He now accepted an invitation from

    Sir Francis Mash am and his Lady , to reside with them at Dates , in Essex ? from whence he carried on nearly all his part of the following correspon d deuce .

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    No . 17 John Locke to Philip it Limborch . Oatesyf June 18 , 1691 . My worthy Frieni > , I VERY much regret the miscarriage of your former letters , for you

    can write nothing which I shall * K > t justly value . Your last of the % 9 th May , full of your accustomed affection and kindness , rejoiced me with the assurance of yptir own and your fern ilyV health .

    1 am vexed that the inattention of the bookseller delays the publication of your History of the Holy Office . Lady Cud worthy and 1 my self greatly

    - " JLMIL . JJIUg . ? II . ,. »;» " —J / $ . * J- The Mansi < m-Hotts& belonging tn tlje Manor <> f Qates , in the pariah or tligh V&i& Onjj * r Hundred , mst . of'Easenc ^ # v © V lift , ' IH . S 4 B . Utis mansion was pulled down in 1802 . See Mon . lien 6 s . F * f Diimnris . daughter of the lenttiitd Dn

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    admire your Preface We are very desirous to see the table of chapters * which you so kindly promised , that by such a sketch of the work we may have a foresight of your method , wishing , at the same time , that the whole volume , so calculated to benefit the Christian world , and 1 need scarcely

    say , now so much wanted , may speedily appear . Jt will serve to discover the origin of all persecution under the pretence of religion ; the foundation of that ecclesiastical tyranny which minor sects are fond of assuming , as if encouraged by so mighty an example . The tendency of such a spirit , and * what dreadful calamities it

    occasions wheresoever it attains any strength , will there appear , so that all must see this its nature clearly , who are not willingly blind . Lady Cudworth promises / herself much pleasure and instruction from reading your work . Inheriting the

    liberal principles of her fath er * she abhors every appearance of religious persecution . She congratulates herself 011 that share in your friendship , which allows her to regard you as a father , and offers yoiu her most affectionate

    salutation . Greatly , indeed , does she esteem and reverence you , and regrets that her ignorance of a language common to you both , deprives her of the improvement she desires from your literary and friendly correspondence . Your history respecting the instruction of the deaf to speak , is confirmed

    Cud worth , and sec , D | id wife of Sir Francis Masham . This lady " died April 20 , 17 O 6 and was buried in the Cathedral Church of Batli ; wliere a inonnment is erected to her memory , in which this character is given of her : * To the softness and elegance of her own sex , she added several of th £ noblest accomplishments and qualities of the other . - She possessed th « se advantages in m degree wniuitiai to elthtr , and tempered them with an exactness

    peculiar to herself . JHer learning " , . judgment , sagacity aad penetration , together with her candour and love of tr , uth were veiry observable to all that conversed with her , or were aco ^ aaiht ^ d with those smnll treatises sh 6 publifebed in kr } ife-ticne , rtion ^ h she indu&trionsly cDncealod her name / * Of the small treaties her ^

    intentioned , one was j& Discourse concerning the % bfye of € *<><* . Frinted 0 / i Xdnd *> n , ifiW ^ l % m ^ . Thte . timt ^ iM £ adw " Bhr . ^ itL M l » , ff . $ m » % W * S > ¦ ¦ < ¦

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    298 The Correspondence between Lockeand lAmborehftvdnsld ^ M .

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    VI . B . .: ' - ' •• ' '" ¦;; " * _

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/10/