Volume 1

Life of John Locke / by H. R. Fox Bourne.

  • Bourne, H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox), 1837-1909.
Date:
1876
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Life of John Locke / by H. R. Fox Bourne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Lelancl, in 1540, termed “ a pretty market town, occupied witli clothing.” Nicholas Locke appears to have been a collector of the stuffs made by his neighbours, and thus a sort of merchant, rather than himself a manufac- turer. His trade prospered, and he acquired money in other ways. His first wife died in 1612,1 and in 1624 he married again—his second wife being a well-to-do widow living at Chew Magna, in the same neighbourhood, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Keene.2 After that, it would seem that he lived in the second wife’s house. He was described as “ of Sutton Wick, in the parish of Chew Magna, clothier;”3 and when he died, in 1648, he was buried in the churchyard of Chew Magna, “ under a goodly tomb opposite the belfry door.”4 Besides other children, he left a daughter Frances, born on the 5th of October, 1604; a son John, born on the 29th of April, 1606; and another son, Peter, born on the 13th of July, 1607.5 1 Additional MSS., no. 28273, in the British Museum;, a note-book kept by Locke’s father, which will be described hereafter. 2 John at-Neale's Pedigree. 3 Additional MSS., no. 4222. 4 John at-Neale’s Pedigree. 5 Additional MSS., no. 28273. Other sons of Nicholas Locke were Edward, born on the 7th of November, 1610, whose will was dated the 24th of April, 1663, and proved in the same year, and Thomas, born on the 12th of February, 1611-12, and whose will, dated the 23rd of November, 1663, was proved on the 4th of February, 1663-4. Peter Locke, who probably carried on his father’s business, and became a man of substance, lived at Bishop’s Sutton, and was buried in Chew Magna churchyard on the 20th December, 1686. Three of his children died before him. He bequeathed his property to two daughters,—Anne, born in 1641, who in 1670 married Jeremy King, a grocer of Exeter; their son, Peter King, Locke’s protege, and afterwards lord chancellor, being the founder of the family now represented by Earl Lovelace ; and Elizabeth,