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studiosissime saluta et cum iis Venios Guenelonios Clericum reliquosque nostros. Ad Clericum nostrum praeterita septimana scripsi.
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[59] London u[ — 21] Dec, [i6]94.
Mijn Heer Limborch bij de Remonstranse Kerck op de Keijsars Graacht t' Amsterdam.
[60] Oates 1 o[— 20] Maij . [ 1 6]g 5 .
Omis dans F. L. :
Nuper a Dno Verrijn literas accepi quibus testatur se adhuc cupere versionem suam libri mei de intellectu recensere et ita parare ut in lucem prodeat. Quid de hac re olim dixerim tu meministi, cui hoc jam adjiciendum est quod vir apud nos doctissimus eam curam in se suscepit ut in linguam Latinam summo studio et nitore vertatur et id opus jam aliquamdiu inchoatum. Huic Editioni Latinae ego novas aliquas dissertationes et additamenta, quae in nuperrima Anglicana non prostant et quorum aliqua animo concepta nondum in scriptis commisi, inseram. Hanc inclusam ad eum epistolam per tuas manus ideo tradendam misi quia locum ubi sit domumve non indicavit. Illum quaeso fratremque ejus meo nomine officiosissime salutes persuasumque reddas illius in me voluntatem et benevolentiam acceptissimam esse semperque futuram meque dolere Idioma nostrum adeo perplexum sensumque meum phrasibus nostris ita involutum ut saepe eum capere nisi in lingua nostra a teneris unguiculis versatissimo difficillimum sit. Saluta reliquos nostros
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[6 1 ] London 3 [— 1 3] Sept. [ 1 6]gô. T)
P.S. omis dans F. L. :
Omnes nostros praecipue ex familia tuaquaesomeo nominequam officiosissime salutes.
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[62] Oates 4[— 14] Mart. 1697 2).
P. S. omis dans F. L. :
Dilectissimam fœminam tuam liberosque reliquosque amicos nostros Amstelodamenses Veneos Guenelonosque quaeso meo nomine salutes. DnaCudworthia tibi plurimam dicit salutem. Historiam quam tibi mitto de rébus nostris Latino idiomate scriptam tibi haud ingratam fore confido.
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Mijn Here Limborch bij de Remonstranse Kerck op de Kaisars Graft t'Amsterdam.
[63] Londres 29 Oct. [—8 Nov.] 1697. 3)
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[64] Oates 21 Febr. [—3 Mart.] [i6]98. 4)
[La lettre du 2 Avril 1 698 dans F. L. est toute conforme à celle-ci, qui a de plus :]
„Considérons un peu plus à fond la Toute-présence de Dieu. Il
1) De la main de Limborch: Recepta [5 — ]i5 Octob.
2) De la main de Limborch: Redditae mihi sunt per D. Barker [3 — ]i3 Maij 1697 rescripsi eadem die.
3) De la main de Limborch : Recepta [6 — ] 16 Novemb.
4) De la main de Limborch: Recepi [11 — ] 21 Mart. [i6]g8.
faut de toute nécessité que Dieu soit Tout-présent à l'infini, à moins qu'il ne soit renfermé dans quelque petit coin de l'Espace, sans que nous sachions, ni pourquoi, ni comment, ni par qui, ni en quel Keu : je dis un petit coin parce qu'une certaine partie déterminée de l'Espace, de quelque étendue qu'on la suppose, est fort peu de chose si elle est comparée à l'Espace infini. Or, si Dieu a une Toute-puissance infinie, c'est, je croi, un preuve approchant de la démonstration, qu'il ne peut y avoir qu'un Dieu.
Quelle que soit la nature, l'être ou la substance de Dieu, là où Dieu est, il y a certainement quelque chose de réel et qui est plus réel que tous les autres Etres. Supposons donc que cet Etre réel existe dans tel point physique de l'Espace qu'on voudra supposer, je dis qu'il s'en suit démonstrativement de là qu'un autre Etre réel de la même espèce ne sauroit être dans le même point individuel de l'Espace ; car, en ce cas-là, il n'y auroit qu'un seul Etre dans ce point, parce que là où il n'y a aucune différence ni à l'égard de l'espèce, ni à l'égard du lieu, il ne peut y avoir qu'un seul Etre. Et qu'on ne s'imagine pas que ce raisonnement ne peut être bon qu'à l'égard du corps et des parties de la matière, car on peut, je pense, l'appliquer fort bien à ce qu'on appelle V Espace pur, qui est ce qu'il y a de plus éloigné de la matière. Car deux points physiques d'Espace ne peuvent pas plutôt être réduits en un seul que deux atomes physiques de matière être réduits à un seul atome. La raison de cette impossibilité est fondée sur ce que si deux points d'espace pouvoient être réduits en un, tout l'Espace pourroit être réduit en un seul point physique, ce qui est aussi impossible, qu'il est impossible que toute la matière pût être réduite à un seul atome.
Pour moy qui ne connois pas ce que c'est que la substance de la matière, je connois encore moins ce que c'est que la substance de Dieu, mais je sçai pourtant que cette substance est quelque chose et qu'elle doit exclure d'où elle est toutes les autres substances de la même espèce (s'il pouvoit y en avoir de telles.)
Si donc Dieu est immense et présent partout, c'est pour moy une démonstration qu'il n'y a qu'un Dieu et qu'il n'y en peut avoir qu'un seul
[Sans adresse.]
[64a] 21 Febr. [—3 Mart] 1698. *)
En tibi Vir Amplissime, quia voluntati tuae et aliorum expectationi obtemperare par est, epistolam de re non exili, mole certe non exiguam, an argumentorum pondère non levem pênes me non est statuere. Tuum istud esto judicium et si libet Domini Clerici (quem officiosissime saluto). Vos praelectam inter vos et serio examinatam vel igni mandate vel viro eximio 2) aliisque, quorum causa scripta est, ostendite prout vobîs visum fuerit. Cavete vero ne vestra erga me amicitia mentem vestram benevolentia abductam avertat a justo rigore. Si quid enim in eo vel parum solide vel parum caute dictum reperiatis, mallem totam tenebris sepeliri quam futili aliqua ratiocinatione in causa tam séria ineptire, vel me ipsum censurae exponere tantorum virorum. Apographum cave ne cuiquam des.
Nuper a filio tuo gratissimas accepi literas quibus certiorem me facit se brevi ad nos transmigraturum. Incommode accidit me gravi aeris urbani halitu pulmonumque imbecillitate Londino expulsum abesse cum appulerit novus hospes, qua tempestate (sicubi alias) novo advenae et rerum nostrarum imperito opportune adessem. Sed spero ad me hue pertendere non gravabitur. Domina Masham mater familias illum enixe invitât, et gestit in filio paternam utriusque agnoscere et colère amicitiam. Hospes meus Londinensis Pawling illum docebit iter et proficiscendi tempora et commoda. Brevis est transitus nec incommodus. Ad eundem Pawling etiam scripsi ut si qua alia in re filio tuo vel consilio vel opéra utilis esse possit ut pro viribus adjuvet. Vir probus est et cui filius tuus tuto fidere potest, et spondeo facturum. Fœminam tuam optimam et filiam inprimisque filium nomine me[o] salutes. Ad Guenellonem nostrum sub initio hujus mensis scripsi, illum familiamque ejus Veneumque caeterosque nostros meo nomine salutes rogo.
Sans adresse.
1) Les lettres 63 et 64, en français, sont de la main de Pierre Coste, secrétaire de Locke, 64a est écrite par Locke même.
2) Le vir eximius ou magnifions des lettres imprimées (F. L.) est Johan Hudde, Seigneur de Waveren, fils de Gérard Hudde et de Marie Witsen. Baptisé à Amsterdam le 25 Avril 1628, il y mourut le 15 Avril 1704. Après avoir étudié la philosophie et la médecine à Leyde, il partit en 1659 pour la France. De retour à Amsterdam, il y entra, en 1667, dans la magistrature, et fut, depuis 1672, vingt fois bourgmestre de cette ville. Mathématicien et philosophe, il correspondait avec Spinoza, Chr. Huygens (vid. sa Corresp. I, 514 etc.), etc.
L'omission de la lettre du 21 Févr., et son remplacement par celle du 2 Avril, s'explique par quelques extraits empruntés aux lettres de Limborch.
Oates 2 [—12] Apr. [1698] *)
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Voici le commencement de la réponse de Limborch, datée le [1 — ] 11 Mars 1698 (minute: Mss. R. B.) à la lettre de Locke du 29 Oct. f— 8 Nov.] 1697 (cf. F. L.):
Gratissimas tuas 29 Octobris scriptas recte accepi, viroque magnifico cujus potissimum rogatu*) ad te scripsi, praelegi. Ut aperte tecum agam, qui argumenta tua de quaestione proposita videre desiderat, est honoratissimus consul civitatis nostrae D. Hudde.
Après avoir reçu la lettre de Locke du 21 Febr. [ — 3 Mart.] 1698, Limborch écrit le [22 Mart.—] 1 Apr. ce qui suit [omis dans F. L. Mss. R. B.J :
.... (après: tua propius explorata): D. Consul impense addictus est philosophiae cartesianae: itaque dubitamus, an argumentum ab omnipraesentia divina desumtum illius applausum impetraturum sit. Scimus spiritum Cartesianis esse cogitationem, cogitationem autem nullum ad spatium habere respectum, ac proinde nec essentiam divinam esse in spatio, sed omnipraesentiam illi attribui relative cum respectu ad operationes suas; prout hanc sententiam clare exprimit Burmannus Synops. Theol. lib. I cap. XXVI, § 12 „Est ergo omnipraesentia Dei nihil aliud quam determinatio extrinseca, nata ex operatione Dei, qua in omnibus rébus corporeis operatur, et propter illam operationem iis praesens esse dicitur," et prolixius § praecedente XI. Tu autem ipsam essentiam divinam ubique praesentem asseris: quod nos tecum agnoscimus: sed dubitamus, an id Cartesii placitis addictus approbaturus sit. Quare tibi expendendum proponimus, an non argumentum hoc a scripto tuo abesse possit, cum et sine eo divinae essentiae unitas abunde probata sit : aut si retinendum censeas, an non, ut philosophis illis magis arrideat, addi possit, duo distincta entia non posse operationem suam simul perficere in eodem spatii puncto. Verum, tum aliqualem cum argumentatione praecedente affinitatem habere videtur. Similiter in initio, quando quaestionis statum proponis, describis Deum quod sit ens infinitum, aeternum, incorporeum etc. Notum est Cartesianos abhorrere a voce incorporeus tanquam negativa, quae nihil positivum afhrmet; ipsos autem substituisse vocem cogitans, quam omnem corporis ideam excludere, et vocem esse affirmativam ac positivam gloriantur. An non ergo in illorum gratiam, ne argumentum alias solidum minori in pretio habeant, addi posset incorporeum sive cogitans, aut aliud aequipollens ....
In gratiam D. Hudde et Cartesianorum Locke a omis, dans sa lettre du 2. f— 12 Apr.], l'argumentatio ex omnipraesentia, i. e. la doctrine de l'extension de Dieu, qu'il professait, ainsi que Limborch et Le Clerc, avec toute l'école de Cambridge et beaucoup de philosophes et théologiens du i7me siècle. Ne connaissant pas les dessous de cette correspondance, M. le Dr. Georg Geil, ttans son livre Ueber die Abhângigkeit Lockes von Descartes, Strassburg 1887, et dans son article „Die Gottesidee bei Locke und dessen Gottesbeweis" (Archiv f. Gesch. d. Philos., III, S. 579 ff.) a pu traiter notre philosophe à peu près en pur cartésien.
*) Les deux autres étaient (cf. F. L.) Mr. Abraham van den Ende (vid. la lettre 49) et Mr. Mattheus de Hertoge, né à la Haye vers 1643, inscrit à Leyde, le 10 Mars 1663, dep. 1685 avocat-fiscal.
1) De la main de Pierre Coste; vid. la lettre précédente.
[65 a] Oates 4[— 14] Apr. [i6]98.
Vir Amplissime
Gratissimas tuas 1 1°, 2i°Martii et calendis Aprilis datas per filium tuum accepi, qui ab urbe absentem me hic rure invisit praesentiaque sua dominam Masham meque sibi devinxit. Ad illum quod attinet tibi pro certo sit me omni cura studio, gratia et consilio quantum in me est statuisse ipsi inservire et tui et sui ipsius causa : ita re quantum potero, verbis plura amicus amico non addam.
Probo consilium tuum de addendis quae inter legendum occurrunt ad historiam Inquisitionis pertinentibus, gratias ago pro excerptis ex P. Servita quae mihi misisti, quae locis suis inserere non negligam. Quod olim ex Du Mont l) indicavi dubito an inserendum sit, non quod illa quam excerpsi observatio non pertineat optime ad libri uit argumentum sed quod aliquis mihi dubium fecit an auctor ille unquam ea inviserit quae describit loca. Habitat, uti mihi dictum est, Hagae comitis, de viro igitur illiusque fide certior factus quid statuendum demum de illo ipse rectius judicabis.
Recte sane Ds Clericus et Tu monuistis quandoquidem Ds H. ita penetus [sic] addictus sit Philosophiae Cartesianae. Si Cartesiani ita intelligendi sint de spiritu quod sit cogitatio et non substantia cogitans verbis sane deum ponunt re tollunt. Cogitatio n: [enim] actio est quae per se non subsistit sed alicujus substantiae actio est. Sed tecum haec lis mihi non est, cum D° H. certe non erit, igitur quod suasisti jam omisi illud ex omnipraesentia argumentum, quod unicum credo a priori argumentum est quo demonstrari possit Unitas divini Numinis. Non miror igitur quod istis principiis penitus imbutus quaerit quod semper frustra quaesiturus est argumentum quod tam maie instituta philosophia nunquam praebebit nec praebere potest. Optime igitur fecistis quod me in disputationes argutiasque Cartesianas me incidere non permisistis.
Alterum quod monuisti de termino incorporeus id non mutavi 1° quia cum Cartesiano mihi rem esse me suspicari non opusest;2° quia si agnoscerem Dm H. esse Cartesianum ideo terminus incorporeus vel immaterialis non esset ex definitione dei omittendus, quoniam quicunque de deo recte cogitare velit débet ab ipso amovere materiam omnem sive corporeitatem. Quod sane cogitatio non facit quicquid in contrarium sentiant viri Cartesii placitis addicti. Sed haec hactenus. Nolo te speculationibus philosophicis melius occupait Vid. dans F. L. la lettre du 26 Oct. [—5 Nov.] 1694.
tum detinere. Te Uxorem tuam filiamque Veeneos Guenelonos Clericosque nostros summo affectu saluto Eorumque gratissimis literis per filium tuum ad me datis brevi respondebo. Vale et ut facis me ama tui Amantissimum
Dicas rogo D° Guenellon literis illius 1 40 Martii datis me 2 1 0 Martii respondisse.
Filius tuus promiserat mihi plurium dierum moram sed expediendi negotii sui cura citius illum hinc abripuit quam alias permisissem. Verum quum illum meo consilio credidisti nollui rébus suis provide intentum a recto tramite deflectere.
Sans adresse.
[66] Oates 21 [—31] Maj. 1698 *).
P. S. omis dans F. L. :
Spero filium tuum jamdudum ad vos sanum salvumque rediisse, illum quaeso uxoremque tuam dilectissimam reliquosque nostros amicos communes officiosissime nomine meo salutes. Mijn Heer
Mijn Heer Limborch bij de Remonstranse Kerck op de Kaisars Gracht t' Amsterdam.
[67— 67a] London 4[— 14] Oct. [i6]98.
i8[— 28] Oct. [1698].
Omis dans F. L. :
Vir Amplissime
Id quod ex te et Dno Woldero 2) nuper didici aliquamdiu suspicatus sum. Sed ne opinio mea me fallat.
1) De la main de Pierre Coste; vid. la lettre 64a; le P. S. est de Locke.
2) De la lettre de Limborch du [2 — ]i2 Sept. 1698 manque dans F. L. (minute Mss. R. B.) :
Hisce feriis canicularibus apud nos aliquot diebus fuit D. Volderus, in Academia Lugduno— Batava Philosophiae professor; illi sermones meos cum viro magnifico narravi; addidi me desiderare audire, quibus ille argumentis unitatem entis per se existentis sibique sufficientis adstricturus sit. Respondebat ille, se jam a pluribus annis
LETTRES A DE LIMBORCH. 1 698— 1 699. 21 y
Vidi ex quo Londini commoratus sum et allocutus sum amicum meum Samuelem Locke, cujus expectationi tam bene respondisse filium tuum, in rébus illius curae commissis gratulor. Bénéficia quibus filium ejus Amstelodami commorantem cohonestatus fueris pater grato animo accipit et cum ea meo nomini inscribas benevolentiam
agnosco
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Mijn Heer Limborch op de Kaisers Gracht bij de Remonstranse Kerck t' Amsterdam.
F. L. Vid. Fx B. II, 399, 468.
[68] Oates 4[— 14] Mar. [i6]99
Monsieur,
Si le peu de loisir et de santé que j'ai, ne vous avoit pas accoutumé à m'excuser de ce que je suis lent à faire réponse aux lettres dont vous daignez m'honorer de temps en temps, je ne saurois guère comment vous remercier de votre lettre du mois de décembre après avoir tant tardé à m'acquitter de ce devoir, mais vous êtes tout acoutumé à me pardonner de telles fautes et cela me fait encore espérer de votre bonté que vous en userez encore de la même manière.
J'ai été bien aise d'apprendre de Madame Masham et de son fils le bon état de votre santé, qui ne faisoit que de se rétablir la dernière fois que vous m'aviez écrit. Je souhaite qu'à l'avenir vous en jouissiez de longues années sans aucune interruption pour l'amour de vos parens et de vos amis et pour l'avantage du monde chrétien.
Je m'étois flatté de l'espérance que vous m'auriez fait tenir dans votre dernière lettre la preuve de l'unité de Dieu qui est venue dans l'esprit de ce grand et savant homme pour qui j'ai un singulier respect. Je désire beaucoup de la voir. Les arguments a priori pour
similes cum ipso habuisse sermones, sed alia illi non esse argumenta, praeter illa quae jam mihi dixit: diu illum circa hanc quaestionem haesisse, illum etiam eandem proposuisse Benedicto de Spinoza, qui ad eum etiam responderit eaque responsa inter epistolas ejus exstare, Epist. XXXIX, XL, et XLI ....
Il résulte, de cette citation, que Limborch et Locke connaissaient Hudde comme destinataire des lettres 39 — 41, dans lesquelles Spinoza avait donné son raisonnement sur l'unité de Dieu.
Burchard de Volder, né à Amsterdam, le 26 juillet 1643, mourut à Leyde, le 28 mars 170g. De 1675 à 1705 il occupa le chaire de physique, depuis 1682 aussi celle de mathématiques à l'Université de Leyde. C'est Yamicus de la lettre imprimée. LeN.N. de cette lettre est Samuel Crellius, petit-fils du célèbre Socinien Joannes Crellius. -
1) Autographe.
démontrer que l'Etre [éternel] et indépendant est unique sont d'une si grande importance dans ce point fondamental, que j'espère être excusé si je m'adresse pour cela à la personne qui est peut être la seule dont on puisse les attendre. Sa grande capacité, la justesse et la pénétration de son esprit m'engagent à espérer de lui ce que peut-être je chercherois en vain quelque autre part. Je vous prie donc, Monsieur, de me faire la grâce de lui demander de ma part ce qu'il a pensé sur ce sujet ou du moins un court extrait de son raisonnement, et je m'imagine que vous ne ferez pas difficulté de lui être caution pour moi que comme je ne demande cette grâce que pour ma propre satisfaction, je n'en ferai aucun autre usage qu'autant qu'il me le permettra. Je ne le presserois peut-être pas avec tant d'importunité, n'étoit que j'ai appris que depuis peu il a été quelquefois malade. L'appréhension de ce qui pourroit arriver a réveillé mes désirs. Je lui souhaite une longue vie pour le bien de son pais et de la République des Lettres. Je vous prie de l'assurer de mes très humbles respects et de recevoir mes remerciements pour le livre que vous m'avez fait l'honeur de m'envoier.
Je suis, Monsieur, votre très-humble et très-obéissant serviteur
J. Locke.
Mijn Heer
Mijn Heer Limborch op de Kaisars Gracht bij de Remonstranse Kerck t' Amsterdam.
[69] Oates 5[ — 1 5] Mart. [i6]99.
ViR Amplissime Tarn fidus literarum tuarum lator non débet vacuus ad te redire nec sine curae suae testimonio ut tu illi eas reddas gratias quas ego satis digne pro merito suo solvere non possum. Attulit ipse mihi hic rusticanti epistolam quam manibus suis concrederas et tridui insuper consuetudinem nobis efflagitantibus concessit vireruditus et modestus reliquitque abiens Dae Masham reliquisque nostris magnum sui desiderium. Gratias tibi ago quod tuo beneficio mihi notus sit optaremque viciniorem. Quanquam enim per omnia cum illo non sentiam aliquid tamen semper disco ex viris qui suautunturrationesuo sensu non aliorum dogmatibus innixi nec cujusvis magistri in verba jurantes.
Fecisti quod te decet cum eo quo dicis modo ad Episcopum Sarisburiensem scripseris, an aliquod tibi reddiderit responsum et quale
libens scirem, pudet sane ministrum Evangelii Christi velle fidem Christianam argumentis bacillinis, vi et armis stabilire.
Hactenus ad tuas 1 8 Augusti datas, pergo ad alias decembri scriptas.
Quid a Viro Magnifico petam et quomodo, adjuncta epistola x) Gallico idiomate tibi monstrabit, si quid habeat in eo génère spero non negaturum. Quod communicaverit tacebo si velit, quanquam cur hujusmodi tacenda sint plane nesciam, sed hoc prout ipsi visum fuerit.
Defensionem tuam 2) aliis impeditus nondum perlegi, video quocum tibi res est strenuo sane cavillatore a cujus polymathia non est cur multum tibi metuas, qui enim ejusmodi in geographia effutire potterat, paratus sane est omnia dicere etiamsi nihil sciât. Hujusmodi scriptorum turba orthodoxiatheologicaubique penelaborat, aperiat aliquando Deus O. M. eorum oculos ad veritatem et ad pacem corda. Tota haec nostra familia te tuosque officiosissime salutat.
Vale et ut facis me ama
Tui amantissimum
J. Locke.
Sans adresse.
[70] Londini 5[ — 15] Sept. [i6]99 3).
Omis dans F. L. :
Miror illum qui tibi dixit decretum illud de quo questus es spectare ad eos qui revelationem impugnant, cum contra negantes revelationem eo in decreto nihil cautum est, sed certum quoddam revelationis divinae interpretamentum sancitum, quod in dubium vocare non licet. Quod de promiscua venere dictitat id credo dictum ad concitandam invidiam, quod quidem ne fando quidem a me unquam auditum. Sed hujusmodi homines reperiuntur qui cum persecutionem aperte pro-
1) Vid. la lettre précédente (70).
2) C'est Ph. a Limborch Defensio contra Joannis van der Waeyen iniquam criminationem. Amst. ap. Joann. Groenewoudt, 1699.
Joh. v. d. Waeyen, né à Amsterdam, le 13 juillet 1639, fut nommé professeur de théologie à Franeker en 1677, et y mourut, le 4 nov. 1701. En 1698 il avait édité à Franeker une Dissertatio de ^iô/œ adversus Joh. Clericum, dans laquelle il attaqua non seulement Le Clerc mais aussi son ami Limborch.
3) De la main de Limborch : Recepta [16 — ]26 Sept. Uamicus de la lettre imprimée (F. L.) est le Prof, de Volder. Ne connaissant pas la correspondance complète (cf. la lettre 68/69, note), l'éditeur dit : Mirum viros clariss. [se. Locke et Limborch] latuisse quae super hac questione meditatus est B. Spinoza. Vid. Epist. 39, 40, 41 et Oper. posthum.
fiteri non audent, sub alieno nomine eam inducere et falsis criminationibus tegere conantur
.... Filioque tuo me excusare rogo quod epistolae illius amicae et civili nondum responderim, brevi spondeo me facturum. Vale
Epistolam hanc ante octiduum incoatam et crebris interruptionibus intercisam vix tandem hac nocte perfeci.
Mijn Heer
Mijn Heer Limborch op de Kaisars Gracht bij de ^Remonstranse Kerck t' Amsterdam.
F. L. Vid. Fx B. II, 416, 469.
[71] Londini7[— 17] Oct. 1699 î).
Omis dans F. L. : >
Filii tui literas ad dominam Masham misi. Guenellonis epistolae . Mijn Heer
Mijn Heer Philips van Limborch bij de Remonstranse Kerck op de Kaisars Gracht t' Amsterdam.
[72] Oates 6[ — 16] Jan. 1700.
P. S. omis dans F. L. :
Domina Masham pro acceptis nuper a filio tuo literis gratias agit quibus ipsa propediem responsura est.
Mijne Heer
Mijne Heer Limborch bij de Remonstranse Kerck op de Kaisers Gracht t' Amsterdam.
[73] Oates 22 Febr. [—5 Mart] 170°. veritatem studiosi quaerimus 2)
Sed quorsum haec ego Tibi pio et prudenti ! Id unum pro certo
1) De la main de Limborch: Recepta [14 — ]24 Octob.
2) 9. lignes rayées probablement par Limborch.
scio curas angoresque animi nec praesentia mala minuere nec futura
praecavere
[P. S.] Domina Masham te tuosque praecipue filium tuum studiosissime salutat. Meo nomine eos omnes quaeso officiosissime salutes, cum Veeneis, Guenelloniis reliquisque nostris. Domina Masham ante paucos dies ad filium tuum scripsit.
Mijne Heer
Mijne Heer Limborch op de Kaisars Gracht bij de Remonstranse Kerck t' Amsterdam.
[74J Oates 21 Maj.[— 1 Jun.] 1701.
Omis dans F. L. :
Vir Amplissime Gratissimus erat nobis omnibus (de hac familia loquor) filii tui adventus mihique inprimis eoque magis -quod illum mihi a te tanta fiducia concreditum video ; si qua est in me fides opéra gratia consilium quibus illi utilis esse possum non frustra concreditum dices. Laudo tuum in eo mittendo animum laudo consilium quantum ego rem capio. Non dubito quin ejus industria probitas peritia fides amicos negotiumque facile et certo parabit si a tenui exordio sensim crescentis spei moras patienter ferre possit, mercatoribus enim solum mutantibus idem accidere arbitror quod arboribus in aliam terram transplantatis, quae primo anno satis agunt si radiées tantillum agant, incrementa et fructus futuri sunt temporis. Non multum mihi cum mercatoribus commercium jamque minus ex quo me procul ab urbe procul a negotio in hune secessum avocavit valetudo. Quibusdam tamen quibus fidem habendam censui et Da Masham et ego illum commendavimus. Siquidem donec nostrorum hominum mores probe noverit non tam familiarium numerum et frequentiam quam probitatem et fidem quaerendam esse censui. Quando Londium proficiscar, quod spero propediem futurum, quid ultra conveniet videbimus. Intérim id filio tuo penitus insidere velim ut maximopere caveat ne temere fidem habeat iis quorum integritas non probe nota sit et perspecta et fama ultra dubium stabilita. Hoc illi facile persuasum iri credo experientia nimis sumptuosa in limine quod doleo edoctus. Quod tamen in ejus commodum aliquando cessurum minime dubito. Virtute enim et probitate sua semper certa, etiamsi aliquando tardior, merces. Me quod attinet Tibi filioque tuo penitus persuasum
velim me illi quacunque data occasione certum et paratum esse amicum et adjutorem.
[P. S.] Uxorem filiamque tuam meo nomine salutes reliquosque nostros. Da Masham te officiosissime salutat.
Mijn Heer Limborch t'Amsterdam.
F. L. Vid. FxB. II, 491.
[75] ' Oates i[— 12] Jun. 170 1.
Omis dans F. L. :
. . . Filius tuus qui jam hic apud nos est de societate (de qua mentio fuit) de rerum suarum praesenti statu deque consilio suo abunde coram mecum egit. Laudo ego illius cautam prudentiam, quod spes vanas vel fallaces qui juvenum plerumque mos est, non avide nimis amplectatur. Laudo moderationem quod lentiores quaestus festinationi non raro ccespitanti praeferat. De re de qua ad me scribis nihil amplius movendum censeo : nec ut societatem cum quoquam ineat temere suaserim, nisi forte oblata sit iis conditionibus quae vix expectari possint, et etiam tum demum a molestia a lite a periculo vix tuta erit. Suas res ut secum agat consultius fore crediderim. Industria sedulitas constantia fides parva initia ad majora cum tempore promovebunt certissime. Cognita illius diligentia et probitas modo expectare tantisper velit, mercatorum negotia attrahent, quaeruntur enim ubique imo et desiderantur viri integri et fidi quibus res suas tuto credere possint mercatores. Inter hos tuum filium brevi eminere nullus dubito.
[P. S.] Versionem Latinam novam bibliorum a Schmidio x) ni fallor Germano nuper factam audio. An quid in ea dignum notatu praestiterit aveo scire. Versio Latina tractatus mei de Intellectu humano jam typis impressa est. Bibliopolae sçripsi ut exemplar filio tuo tradat tibi transmittendum ut si quid in Gallica translatione haereat versio Latina lucem foeneretur.
Mijn Heer Mijn Heer Limborch t'Amsterdam.
1) Sébastian Schmidt, Professeur de Théologie protestante à Strassbourg. En 1696, après la mort de l'auteur, la Faculté publia sa traduction.
[76] Oates I2[ — 23] Aug. 1701 I).
Omis dans F. L. :
Vir Amplissime
Quod pauca illa benevolentiae meae erga filium tuum officia quae adhuc praestare mihi datum est tantopere praedicas, id factum existimop otius ut morem géras animo tuo in gratitudinem proclivi, quam quod credas me mihi aut amicitiae nostrae satisfecisse in iis quae illius causa facere mihi hactenus contigit. Tibi pro certo sit me ad omnia quae illius utilitati inservire possint paratum esse. Si consilio re opéra gratia illum quovis modojuvare possim, non deero. Verbis opus esse ut hoc tibi persuadeam non credo. De amicitia nostra inter nos convenit proinde ad ea procedendum est de quibus inter nos non videtur tam plane convenire.
Sans adresse.
F. L. Vid. Fx B. II, 492.
Sans adresse.
F. L. Vid. Fx B. II, 494
[78] Oates 20 Apr.[ — 1 Maj.] 1702.
Vir Spectatissime Literae tuae 25 datae mihi hodie discumbenti in mensa redditae
1) De la main de Limborch: Recepta [19 — ]3o August.
2) Le [15 — ] 26 Nov. 1701 Limborch écrit à Samuel Crellius (Mss. R. B.): Primis quas ad D. Lockium daturus sum literis salutem tuam, quam ipsi ac Domi-
nae Masham totique illi honoratae familiae dici voluisti, adscribam. Exspecto ego jam ab eo responsum ad meas satis prolixas, quas ante hebdomades aliquot de libertate voluntatis humanae ad ipsum misi. Continent illae considerationes aliquas in Cap. XXI. libri secundi tractatus illius de Intellectu humano. Explicuit ille mihi pressius mentem suam ; verum raeam non videbatur recte assecutus. Ex responso, quod nunc exspecto, cognoscam quis inter nos supersit dissensus. Ego puto, si recte illum intellexi, nos terminis loquendi magis quam re ipsa dissentire. Id si ita se habet, facile dissensus ille componi poterit.
Oates I9[ — 30] Nov. 1701.
sunt,finitoprandio qua possum festinatione respondeo,nihilenimtua sanitate mihi charius est. Pulsus intermissio sine aliquo graviore malo saepissime invadit caetera sanos et iterum transit sine remediorum ope uti ego plus semel in me expertus sum. Nihilominus censeo in te symptoma esse minime negligendum praesertim hac anni tempestateapoplexiaferaci. Quicquid tuae valetudini minatur id omne plethorae ascribo cui ex natura nimium quantum pronus es ideoque ea omnibus modis et tollenda et praecavenda. Si remanet adhuc pulsus intermissio vel quovis alio modo motus inordinatus venae sectionem iterum suaderem, non obstante nupera sanguinis missione. Verum sive venae sectionem adhibeas sivenon, consultissimum credo faciès si abstineas a vino aliisque omnibus potus generibus vinosis aut fermentatis eorumque loco utaris ptisana hordeacea aut ad summum cerevisia tenuissima, alimentis etiam nutritivis praesertim carne vel pisce utaris parcissime vel aromatibus conditis, eorum loco herbis jusculisque hordeaceis et avenaceis contentus, hoc suadet tua constitutio hoc suadet adolescentis veris tempestas. Ad remedium quod fratri D* Clerici praescripsi quod attinet illius plane oblitus sum, nec sane memineram me aliquid illi consuluisse donec nuper Ds Coste forte mihi revocavit in memoriam. Optarem sane ut remedium illud, quicquid demum fuerit, Ds Clericus aut frater ejus mihi transcribere vellet, ut si ex usu judicavero, tu adhibere possis. Haec raptim abituriente tabellario. Tota haec familia una mecum tibi optât salutem totique tuae familiae. Vale et ut facis me ama tui amantissimum
J. Locke.
Sans adresse.
Vid. Fx B. II, 504s.
[79] 28 Sept.f— 9 Oct.] [i7]o2 *).
[P. S.] Uxorem filiam communesque amicos nostros meo nomine quaeso officiosissime salutes. Ds et Da Masham Te tuosque salutat.
Mijn Heer Mijn Heer Philip van Limborch ^Amsterdam.
F. L. Vid. Fx B. II, 505.
1) 7 premières lignes effacées probablement par Limborch.
Oates 4[— 15] Aug. [i7]o4 *).
Mijn Heer Mijn Heer Philip van Limborch t' Amsterdam.
F. L. Vid. Fx B. II, 505 ss., 548 ss.
1) De la mam de Limborch: Obiit D. Joannes Locke 28 Octob. stylo Angliae, stylo nostro 8 Novemb. 1704, die Saturni hora tertia pomeridiana.
Edward Clarke ne nous est guère connu quepar sa correspondance avec Locke. Il était de Chipley dans le Somerset à quelques miles à l'ouest de Taunton. Ses relations avec son illustre compatriote remontent beaucoup plus haut que la première des lettres que nous publions puisque la collection de Nynehead l) en contient de 1681 qui révèlent déjà entre les deux correspondants une très familière cordialité.
Aux élections de 1690/91 Clarke devint député de Taunton puis commissioner of excise. Les comptes-rendus de la Chambre et de la Commission permettent de juger qu'il déploya dans ses fonctions une intelligente activité. Il avait l'habitude de s'entretenir avec Locke des affaires en cours et s'inspirait parfois très heureusement de ses idées 2). Nous devinons par leur correspondance qu'il était le plus jeune des deux amis, qu'il était d'un caractère obligeant, ouvert, d'un esprit peut-être au dessus du commun, mais orienté vers la pratique de la vie plus que vers la spéculation. S il aimait à traiter avec Locke des questions politiques, sociales ou religieuses, il en retirait probablement lui même le plus grand profit.
Nous apprenons encore par ces lettres les noms de plusieurs enfants de Clarke. Il semble que John dut être le principal héros des lettres d'où sont sorties les Pensées sur l'Education. Locke était consulté en effet par son ami au sujet l'éducation d'un de ses fils 3) et
1) Fraser Locke, p. VII: „There is also a large collection of letters to and from Mr. Locke, from 1681, till his death, in possession of Mr. Sanford of Nynehead, near Taunton, the représentative of Locke's friend Edward Clarke . . ." Ibid. p. 61 : „The earliest letters in this interesting collection were written in 1681. It consists largely of friendly domestic communications between Locke and the family of his friend."
2) Fx. B. IL p. 316 en donne un exemple typique.
3) D'après sa lettre à Thoynard, du 25 Mars 1698. L'opinion exprimée dans la lettre à Clarke du 11 Janvier 1694 est à rapprocher des Pensées sur l'Education, section XXV (196) où Locke donne un avis semblable.
John était le seul pour qui la question pût se poser pendant le séjour du philosophe en Hollande (1683/4 — 1689). Celui-ci semble avoir eu plus d'amitié pour Betty ; c'est elle qu'il appelait „my wife" ; elle avait environ onze ans à la date de notre première lettre (1692). Locke lui adressa de nombreuses lettres et lui laissa par testament 200 livres ainsi qu'à Edward Clarke.
Comme médecin de la famille nous voyons ici Locke se conformer très exactement aux indications qu'il avait données dans les Pensées sur l'Education: „Peut-être attendiez-vous de moi, avait-il écrit, que je prescrivisse ici quelques règles médicales pour prévenir les maladies : je n'en ai qu'une à donner, et celle-là doit être rigoureusement observée, c'est de ne jamais faire prendre de remède à l'enfant comme moyen préventif. La méthode, que j'ai déjà fait connaître, sera, je crois, plus efficace que toutes les potions à la mode chez les dames, que toutes les médecines des apothicaires. Soyez d'une extrême prudence sur ce point, sans quoi, au lieu de prévenir les maladies vous les provoqueriez. N'allez pas non plus à tout propos et pour la moindre indisposition donner des remèdes à vos enfants ou appeler le médecin, surtout si le médecin est un homme empressé qui se hâte de remplir vos fenêtres de fioles de potions amères et leur estomac de drogues. Il est plus sage de confier les enfants à la seule conduite de la nature, que de les mettre dans les mains d'un médecin trop disposé à les droguer et à croire que dans les indispositions ordinaires la diète ou un régime qui s'en rapproche n'est pas le meilleur des remèdes. Pour moi, par raison et par expérience, je crois que les tempéraments délicats des enfants doivent être médicamentés aussi peu que possible et seulement dans le cas de nécessité
absolue Sur ce point j'espère obtenir aisément créance, personne
ne pouvant songer à se défier de l'opinion d'un homme qui a consacré à l'étude de la médecine -une partie de sa vie, lorsqu'il est le premier à conseiller de ne pas recourir trop vite à la médecine et aux médecins".
La manière dont Locke pratique la médecine ne s'accorde pas moins bien avec les doctrines sur l'étendue et les limites de notre connaissance exposées dans l'Essai. Nous ignorons les essences réelles des choses ; nous ne savons pas rattacher leurs propriétés les unes aux autres, sinon par un lien purement empirique. Il faut donc fonder toute la thérapeutique sur l'expérience, c'est-à-dire : prescrire les remèdes dont elle a montré déjà l'efficacité et s'inspirer de ses seules indications, quand on compose un remède nouveau ou que l'on
institue un ensemble de moyens curatifs ; observer l'évolution des symptômes de la maladie et mesurer ou modifier la thérapeutique d'abord instituée, conformément à ces observations; enfin laisser agir la nature plutôt que de courir le risque de la contrarier par des prescriptions inconsidérées. Cet empirisme ne réduit pas la médecine à une inintelligente routine ; il laisse place à l'art du praticien dans la composition des remèdes et la prescription des traitements.
Nota. Les passages entre crochets [ ] sans autre indication sont cités par Fox BOURNE, Life of JOHN LOCKE. = Fx. B.
Thomas Forster, Orginal Letters of J. Locke etc. Lond. 1847, est indiqué par Or. Let. Part. = partiellement citée.
13 Mai, 1692. Fx. B. II. 234. Or. Let. 52 et Monthly Repository, XIII. (part.)
[1] 28 Oct. 92 Oates.
Dear Sr.
[Had my désire to you in my note been with other design than it was, I should with satisfaction have submitted to your judgment in the affair. But the reason why I resolved to give back some of the stones being only because I would not be clogged with more than was necessary for sufficient security, what was enough for that was ail [I] in effect desired. I think it necessary she should write a letter to me to thank me that I have consented to her request to let them be deposited in Mr. Pawling's hands for her to have them to use at Christmas, if she has occasion, and that if they miscarry before they be restored to me again, it must be at her adventure and loss, they being deposited there at her request and for her convenience. Let her seal and deliver that letter to you, which I désire you to keep, but you must take her write whilst you are with her or else it will not be done] I).
I hope the inclosed in answer to that you conveyed to me is what you will approve of. If not pray blot out or amend whatever you think fît and send it back to me, for I désire only to do the business and to avoid wrangling and therefore I have forborne to take notice of his wanted rhetoric.
You will also inclosed receive another short epistle to a worthy neighbour of his which I désire you to seal and send away. You will fînde but few and thèse I think very civil words in it, but I would fain receive an answer to them. What spell is it that they cannot be like other men ?
1) Cité et expliqué par Fx. B. II. 245—6. Sur Mr. Pawling vid. Id. ibid. p. 241.
I am exceeding glad that Mr. Attorney did as you tell me and I hope he found him to his satisfaction as I said. Pray send me word and give my humble service to Mr. Attorney.
I thank you for the news you sent me and if the men of this âge were like those of former I should hope for some good of it.
[When the mortgage is executed by Mrs. L[ockhart], my cousin Bonville need not be there. You may by a penny post letter send for him to your lodging when you please, and then he may there exécute both the mortgage and the déclaration of trust at the same time without troubling them.] You will excuse the liberty I take with you in giving you so much trouble on ail occasions, but I am perfectly
Yours J. Locke.
[Présent my humble service to madam to whom I heartly wish a short and safe hour. I shall take care to have the coach sent for my wife to-morrow.] J) I shall make ail your compliments to Sr. Francis and my Lady 2). I thank God I am recoverd beyond expectation. My service to the Lady at Whitehall and thanks to Mrs. Lockhart for her letter. But tell her that I can upon noe other terms obteine a peace for her here but only upon condition she according to her promise given corne hither herself and ratifie it. Excuse the packet inclosed, but three letters I consider as as easily sent to the post house as one. [2 mots] with Mr. Popple 3) on Friday when you have send me your thoughts.
[2] Oates 31 Oct. 92.
Dear Sr
[My wife came hither safe and well on Saturday and you had completed the kindness if you yourself had corne with her. But you could not part, it seems, with my lord mayors show for your poor country friends and a sermon to boot. This I tell madam is the reason why you staid in town though I doubt not but you have business enough ; but yet I know you will not blâme me that I désire to see you. My wife I shall take care of as her mother desires and I think she need be in no pain about her whilst she is here where every body is so disposed to take care and make much of her as she very well deserves.
1) Vid. Fx. B. II. 247.
2) Sr. Francis Masham et Lady Masham.
3) Wil. Popple. Vid. Fx. B. II. 352 et Index.
LETTRES A CLARKE. IÔÇ2. 23 I
But my lady intending to write to Mrs Clarke herself, I shall say no more on that subject.]
You will receive today my packet I sent you by the post on Friday last. If my letter to Mr S. l) have any thing in it you approve not of pray correct it and sent it me again to be transcribed. I finde since he talked with you there, he has changed his note, talkes noe more of vouches being in the Exchequer, but now is corne to be infallible that he delivered them to me for seeing where the matter pinches, he noe longer desires me to search for the order and Mr Bronckers receit in the poils or anywhere else, but is sure he delivered them to me. I have writ to him as civilly and as gently as is possible to presse him to doe what I think is his interest for if he can but finde thèse vouchers there will be an end of the trouble and my account will be easily passed.
1 thank you for your care in my business, excuse the trouble of it and believe
I am your affectionate J. Locke.
2 Nov. 1692. Or. Let 55.
1 1 Nov. 1692. Or. Let. 56.
28 Nov. 1692. Or. Let. 57 (part.) Fx. B. II. 250 (part.) et 247. 9 Dec. 1692. Or. Let. 57.
[3] Oates, 23 Dec. 92.
Dear Sr.
Though your short letter of Tuesday tells nothing but what I expected, yet I cannot help being troubled one particular I had from Sr Francis and am sorry there are more. [I had designed to draw you hither if you havé any holidays. I long to talk with you and mightly désire you should have a little refreshment in the air. But I fear I shall make you an ill compliment to invite you to a bedfellow, and such an one as I am. If you can dispense whit that, pray corne. You will be to every body very wellcome, I know, and would be desired if it could be a civil invitation. The house will be so full when Mr. Cudworth cornes, who was expected with Mr. Andrews and is looked for every day, that Mrs. Masham is fain to lie in a servants
1) Smithby d'après la lettre suivante, peut-être le mari de Mrs. Smithby cher qui Lk. logea jusqu'en 1692.
chamber and bed in the passage to the nursery.] This want of room hinders my Lady from desiring masters company nowassheintended and she desires me to excuse it to him, which pray doe, but hopes she may have him here at some other convenient time.
By yours and Mr. Smithby's silence I guess the imprest roll is not yet got from the pipe. Pray when it cornes to hands take the vouchers which you will finde in the little trunk (and noe other papers but the vouchers, for there are others relating to that matter) and together put them into Mr. Bridg's hands. I wish in the mean time I knew the forme of the oath. Baron Bradbury, r) if he cornes in your way, can tell it you and I think best to aske him. My service to Madame and Master. I wish you ail a mery Christmas and am,
Dear Sr, your most affect. humble servant.
I think it best to know the termes of the oath before Mr Bridges be any more spoken to about this business or you put into his hands.
My wife is very well and sends her duty. My Lady and Mrs. Cudworth etc . . . présent their services to you and Mrs. Clarke. You may to introduce the discourse aske the Baron Bradbury whether the oath must be taken before or after the Auditor has stated the account, for Mr. Bridges told me it might be either if I made a state of it myself. Pardon this trouble.
[4] Oates 24 Jan. 9-
Dear Sr
Haveing in my two last letters forgot when I came to write them the mentioning the certificate for my Michaelmas pol paid here it is not strange that in the multitude of other businesse should either have forgotten it or at least the mention of it to me. I therefore take liberty to minde you of it and désire you to get it and put it into Mr. Pawlings hand and direct him what use to make of it. I have here inclosed as you will see [un mot] him upon you for it.
By the other inclosed you will have a view of ail my business with Mr. Bridges, you will easily guesse why I soe much désire despatch it if possible by any hast to get a quitus [acquit?] in this terme which
1) Georges Bradbury, fils aîné de Henry B. de St. Martin's Fields (Middlesex), juge très estimé. Le 9 Juillet 1689, il succéda au baron Carr à la cour de l'Echiquier et y resta jusqu' à sa mort (22 fev. 1696). Vid. Dict. of Nat. Biogr.
I very earnstly désire. Thereforepray presse him as [1 mot] as is décent and as soon as you can have notice when the ingrossed account will be ready send me word and write on the superscription of your letter :
To be sent from Bishopstortford by an expresse.
The occasion of my enquiry about your saturdays debate was a mistake. [Deux mots] yet had leisure to peruse your printed paper but shall give you an account in my next. My service to Madame and ail the rest of my friends I am
Yours J. L.
[5] Oates 6 Mar. 9-
I know not by what mistake I received not yours of the last of Feb. till just now. I thank you for your care and concerne in Sr Francis's businesse. [I am extremely troubled that your cold sticks soe upon you. Pray drink water and carefully no wine and be as little abroad in the evenings as you can. I know not what else to say to you unless you will corne hither a little while for some country air. If your cold increases upon you, quit ail businesse that you may serve your country, for when you are sick or worn, you will not be able to serve it. Therefore pray corne hither. We will make very much of you. My lady would take it very kindly and says this is a sure place to get rid of colds.]
My service and thanks to Mr Attorney. I am very sensible of his great favour in this occasion. My service to Madam, my wife etc. I must end for the messenger will be gone. I am
Yours J. Locke.
[6] Oates, 1 1 Jan. [1694].
Dear Sr
[I hope this aireing of your son thèse holydays in the country will be convenient for his health and noe préjudice to his learning. He was wellcome te every body here and particulary to me, and I am glad to finde him such a proficient in Latin, from which I conclude that in a little time now he will be master of that tongue. But schools I see still are schools and make school-boys. I say this to make you
observe whether it be not to be apprehended that the main benefit of a danceing master will be lost, though he dance constantly two or three times a weeke, if those who ought to have the constant care of him in every part doe not looke after and minde his postures, carriage and motions, when he is out of the danceing masters hands, for without that the steps and figures of dances I thinke of noe value.] x)
The remédie which as Mr. Freke tells me set you and him soe mucri a thinking, you will finde in the begining of my letter to him. If it will have time enough now to worke I know not but that I thought on and can think of noe other.
I returne you my thank for your care of my lease. Here inclosed is a short answer to Madams kind letter ; whether she will think it wets [?] tool know not. Whether it be like to worke on her to the end which I propose which is her health you must be judge. If you think a longer letter and of another tone may prove more effectuall you have but to send the inclosed back again and I shall follow your instructions though I chose the most persuasive stile I could think of. [I wish you and yours a happy year and am
Dear Sr.
Your most affectionate friend and humble servant,
Here inclosed you will finde a letter to Monsieur le Clerc. If it cornes not to your hands time enough to be put into the post this Friday which is the post night for Holland I désire it to be done Tuesday next, for it is a letter of concernment. I beg your pardon for this trouble.
30—31 Juin 1694. Or. Let, 60.
[7] Oates 15 Oct. [i6]94.
Dear Sr
The agreeing of the waters with Mrs Clarke I think of soe great use for her health that in my opinion she ought not to impute the pain she did for some nights feele in her back on the left side (for she must observe and send me notice of some other symptoms before she or I can conclude it was in her left kidney) to the drinking. I
1) Or. Let. 59.
rather judge it was for some disorder in the humors from the cold she then had and doe wish she would continue on the use of the waters and that with more constancy than she has hitherto observed, it being that chiefly which in thèse kindes of remédies produces such great and bénéficiai efïects. I wish she had sent you word too how her stomach and strengh is and how they improve by her drinking, for pains in particular parts of the body, though they be what the patient generaly most takes notice of and soonest complains of, yet they usualy, when noething more is knewn, give the least light to a physician, especialy if they be transient and moveable pains. My service to her and my love to my wife and the rest of the young good company whether at Chipley. I am, Dear Sr, your most arT. humble servant.
I thank you for your concerne for my health. [I thank God the country air begins a little to relieve me from those impressions that were made on my lungs by the London smoke, wich I perceive I must not make too bold with at this time of the year.] My service to Mr Freke, Sr Walter *) and your son. Here inclosed is a letter for him from little Frank 2). Sr Francis, my Lady and ail here présent their service to you. I shall send Mr Fox to you in a little while for my tax which Mr Pawling is not yet in a condition to pay. That must be my excuse for giving you this trouble. I have paid none since you paid him last.
[8] Oates, 2 Nov. 94.
Dear Sir,
The favour of your last haveing nce businesse that required an answerd but the kindnesse in it, I thought you would not be displeased if I returned my thanks by M1* Freke. He has since obliged me in his kindnesse to my cousin King 3) and now in your turne I must beg you to returne my thanks to him. I shall be glad to hear how Madam does and whether she continues the waters. In my next I shall returne her my thanks for her last letter in an answer of my owne. But I would willingly first be informed of her présent circumstances, that if there be any occasion I may give her further directions
1) Sr. Walter Yonge, député de Honiton depuis les élections de 1690. Fx. B. II. 162.
2) Frank Masham Cudworth, né en Juin 1686.
3) Peter King, le futur chancellier, ou son père Jeremy.
if there needs any, or at least send her my opinion whether for confirmation or altération. In the mean time pray returne my service and thanks to her for her letter and doe not forget my wives to whom also give my love.
If you have noe other news pray in your next say a word of the state of the Bank.
Excuse the trouble of the inclosed and believe that I am,
Dear Sir,
Your most affectionate humble servant.
J. Locke.
I have write to Mr Stratton *) to return up some money to you. If you deliver the bill to Sr Stephen Evans and take a note from him for soe much payable to my order it will I hope cost you noe other trouble but endorsing the bill.
[9] Oates, 3 May 95.
Dear Sr Grave.
By the fires side (and well I can be warme there) I returne you my thanks for yours of the 30 Apr. The inclosed from Madame giving noe further account of her health or any thing done in order to it does not require a présent answer. [That which you say of my will satisfies me how little I must relye on my memorie.]
What I said of the wonders might be done if there were more such collèges 2) or this one had more such fellows. I finde I have reason to repeat again upon the reading of the dozen and half which are (contrary to custome) ail Reasons: Would your house be stored with a number of such as cure them of. Then was never more need of them. I cannot tell what to say of their plenty.
The Batchelor 3) must give me leave to minde him again of Sr William Wallers 4) book upon the receit of a letter lately from Mr Limborch who has some concerne in it. I hope the purchase is made or at least
1) Un autre cousin de Locke. Vid. Fx. B. IL 450.
2) Allusion à quelque club dont Freke, Clarke et Locke étaient membres et où l'on semble s'être occupé de questions politiques, sociales, religieuses etc . . . Fx. B. II. 305.
3) Surnom de Freke.
4) Sir Wil. Waller mort en 1669, fils du célèbre Wil. Waller (1597?— 1668) et de sa seconde femme Anne Finch, s'était distingué au moment de la conspiration papiste, comme juge dans le Middlesex jetant les prêtres en prison et brûlant les livres catholiques. Limborch désirait probablement son libelle anti-catholique : The tragical history of Jetzer collected from records. 1679, in fol.
that Sr Batchelor has writ to Ben : Furly about it, as I desired that it may be expedited.
Last Tuesday I received from Churchill a catalogue of Millers pamphlets that are now set to sale. I would désire sorne of the Collège if they know any that are extraordinary good in their kinde to send a catalogue of them by the peny post to A. Churchill to buy them for me. There was one I remember of the administration of the arïairs of Scotland under Duke Lotherdale and another about the scotch affairs writ about 4 or 5 years since the author was supposed Sr J. M. I have forgot the titles of both of them but should be glad to have them. This though I désire, yet I would not have it in trench upon any of your more serious arïairs. If you have an idle minute to throw away, write down a few such in a catalogue and let Churchill have it. You that live in town pray excuse such troubles from your country friends, if you want herbs or roots for dietdrinks or plaisters pray let me [he]ar of you. A propos des remèdes : Take juice of Schandine and honey with a little safron, an excellent remédie for a sore mouth and that which people call kankers in it. Probatum est. I thank you for your care and pains about my tickets and am your most assured Friend and humble servant.
J. Locke.
[Clarke :] a Prescription for Guinay and to know when Mr Freke goes to Bath and about purchasing the reversion of the annuitys etc. . . answerd 20 May 95.
Oates 17 May 95.
Dear Sr
I have sent a gentle remédie for your little one at Ditton x) which possibly may doe without any greater business. In your next pray send me her âge. Let Mr Shipton tie the ingrédients in a thin rag and soe let it be hung in a bottle of small bear which let the child drink of and noe other ; as the bear is drunk out let fresh be put in till it has noe more taste nor purgeing and then let me know how it succeeded. [I am not at ail pleased with the news of the Bachelor's designed journey. Half the satisfaction I have in being in London
1) Ditton: Lancashire, West Derby. Le remède prescrit est ainsi indiqué par Lk. For Mr. Clarkes daughter : R. Rhabarb in taleol. in cis 3i corallinae 3s. (Soit : rhubarbe en boutures au plus 4 grammes, coralline 2 grammes).
LETTRES A CLARKE. l6g$.
will be lost if he be out of the way when I am there. Let me know when he intends to go, and when'return from Bath. My breath isyet short. I know not how long stay it will permit me in town and I must husband my time there as well as I can, but would willingly order it soe as to be there when he is. I have something which I would gladly propose and have debated in the collège.] If he goes and be not like to returne in three weeks from hence, I think I must beg him to leave directions and papers with you about my ticket and lotery concernement in the Exchequer that I may settle that afïair when I goe to town.
Pray send me word in your next whether you think the reversions of the annuitys in the Chequer worth to haveing at the act rate at 4V2 years purchease and whether you intend to purchease and turne you from lives into the years certain. We have still winter weather bateing a little warmth. Last night a violent rain hat made an unusual plash and it rains hard now and looks settled to it. My service to collège. I am Dear S1*, your most affect. humble servant.
[11] Oates 25 May 95.
Dear Sr
[It will fall out extremely ill if I should miss you too in town when I corne thither. The weather and my business are neither of them yet ripe for it, for I write this by the fîreside, and know not how I shall bear the London air]. Byl who brings you this cornes out of town again on Tuesday morning will hope bring me word that your journey will not be soe soon as you talk of. I beg you therefore to send me word precisely as near as you can the day you intend to goe out of town and the time you intend to stay in the country, that I may order my journey soe as to have as much time with you in town as possible, for I have a great deal to say to you and talke with you and will if possible see you befôre you goe into Somersetshire. [I shall, I think, in July have some money paid me and perhaps some sooner. Pray tell me whether I cannot refuse clipped money, for I take it not to be the lawful coin of England and I know not why I should receive half the value I lent instead of the whole.]
Yours of the 23 which I received just now has prevented some questions I was going to aske you. The Batchelor I see is not mollified by âge and I think it is his own ripenesse keeps him soe stiff to
his own ways and purposes. I thank you for sending my letters and writing to my cosin Stratton. I suppose Sr Stephen Evans recei ved the money. I hope since you heare not the countrary from Mrs Clarke that she is well and that is a great deal better than anything can be prescribed her. I am, Dear S1*,
Your most aff. friend and humble servant
J. Locke.
If Byl wants any money whilst he is in town, pray let him have forty shillings.
You have two Bankbills of mine which I think were limited to a year. I know not how near that time is out ; what must I doe to change them ? Pray make noe too much hast into the country . I must see you before you goe and expect you will order it so that I may.
[12] [24 ou 25 Août 1695].
Dear Sr
When I began to read Mr Engehams letter written in your lodging, I began to be frighted. But the sequel of it and Mr Pawlings [letter] which was written after his pretty well satisfied me with the hope that the pain and danger is now ail over. I flattered myself when I parted with you that your distemper was at an end for that time and would be kept off with a little care two or three days, though I know it so apt to returne that one is not very secure till ones health be confirmed by some days continuance. Let this be a caution to you not to be too forward in ventureing abroad or eateing any thing but plain meat and keep and be sure for this good while to keep your stomach and belly and feet very warme. I think the Doctor has done exceeding well in bleeding and purgeing you upon the returne of your pains. This I have great confidence will prove an effectuai cure and see your body was sœ disposed that then was noe geting it off at a cheaper rate. And notwithstanding my hopes to set you right an easier way [,if I] yet had been in town I should have been forced, I conclude, to corne to the same discipline. Have a care of yourself. I hope to hear by the next post that you have noe remains of your pain.
Pray send Mr Trent word that I doe not think that two grains will purge the child or at ail make her looser, but that they may
continue to give it her if she be a little loose, if it does not directly purge her, for if it does they must them forbeare. I am, Dear Sr, your most aff. humble servant.
J. Locke.
Pray give my service to Mr. Engeham and to the Batchelor who is with you I hope before this time. Ail the company here give you their service and are concerned for your health. There were several people robed on Eping forest the same morning we passed it. We heard of it at the Green man and our Ladys hearts went pitapat.
[Clarke] : Mr. Locke of His and Ladys being . . . to have been robb'd And about my illnesse etc.. Reced : the 26th Aug. 1695. Answd the 2?th.
[13] Oates 25 Mar. 1696.
Dear Sr
I have her inclosed obey'd your commands to the best of my skill and have endeavoured to make it as efïectuall as I could. If there be anything that you would have added altered or omitted you are but to send it back to me and I shall doe it just as you shall think it will worke best.
I think the dose of the powder to Sammy should be increased but haveing forgot how much I prescribed, I would gladly know that before I give any further directions in the case. Pray how does the child at Ditton ?
I would be glad to know whether you received my both letters the two immédiate preceeding post to that which brought you Mr Lyde's inclosed.
[I am very glad the désigne of fixing a rate on guineas, especially at 25 s. was defeated. The thing I looke on to be ill in itself and worse in the intention. The subscribers will not now be able to put otT their guineas at an high rate to the cost of the government, nor the raisers I hope be able to compassé their soe long labored designe of raiseing the dénomination of our coin. Did I not see soe ready a motion towards them, I could scarce imagine that any English man could harbour a thought soe destructive to his country as I apprehend this to be. But what may one not believe of English
men when there are those found amongst them that would favour a french invasion ?
Is there no hopes to put a totallendto clipping and coining [that is counterfeiting ] ? *). Methinks the présent ferment should take some vigour and put a stop to that great and surely destructive evil.] I am, Dear Sr,
your most affectionate humble servant,
J. Locke.
My lady gives her service to the collège and your son his duty to you
[Clarke] : to know what dose of the powder tea formerly directed for Sammy.
L14J Oates 16 Apr. 96.
Dear Co:
I havebeensoe successful in a point of that moment and soe heavily hung upon that I will not despair of what remains from your endeavours to compleat it. I am extremely glad of the good service you mention tobedone by a young Gentelman I shall always be concerned for. I hope this will bring him back into better hands, pray make that use of it. Get him and cherish him and gently passe by mistakes, he is a young men whom I hope time and expérience will better enlighteen.
What other trial you intend to make I wish well to, but I have noe other expectation from the wisdom and honesty of those you mention, than I used to have. As to the commission of appeals, I could do noe more than I did, unless I could have heard and judged by myself. I took three journeys to London on purpose, but neither found any more than Mr Dodington in town, nor could with my utmost endeavours, get three together. The last time my health forced me out of town in haste, and there being four then présent, I could not think my absence could hinder their proceeding to judgment, and yet I should have corne up had not my illness at that time kept me in bed and not permitted me that attendance without danger ofmylife. But pray tell me, have not my brethern determined that cause and at
1) Supprimé dans Or. Let. (p. 61) rétabli par Fx. B. II. 341, qui cite tout ce passage, depuis Did I not see . . . . destructive evil.
what sticks it ? Mr Tilson a clerk in the treasur, your secretary knows how much I laboured to get a quorum and to bring the appeals to a hearing and you are not wholly stranger to it.]
I returne my thanks to thèse friends who concerned themselves for me and am, Dear Sr
Your most aff. humble servant,
J. Locke.
My Lady gives her service to the C° : and his son his duty to your Grave. Pray have you yet received the Guineas or when are you like to receive them ? If they be not paid before the order cornes for our salarys let that £ 50 be paid you by Sr Stephen in Guineas and let alone the remaining number to make up an hundred till you hear from me again and keep the note I sent you by you.
24 Avril 1696. Or. Let. 62.
18 Mai 1696. Or. Let. 47 (datée par erreur de 1689).
[15] Oates 24 May 96.
Dear Sr
This days coach from Bishopstortford is quite full soe that it will now be Friday before I shall have the happiness of seeing you. This is therefore in the mean time only to acknowledge the receit of, and returne you my thanks for the favour of your two letters one of the 2 1 . and the other 24 instant. I am glad to finde noe day yet set in your letters for your journey which gives me hopes I shall have some time with you in town. I am Dear Sr, your most aflfectionate humble servant.
My humble service to the Batchelor.
[16] Oates5Mar:9y Dear Sr
Though the inclosed were already to be sealed up under your cover, yet I staid from doing of it till your letter came in expectation that I might hear from and have a word to say to you. Your letter which came just now, is fuller than I expected or could
wish for. I could be glad if Mrs Clarkes Messenger is soe near going that I shall not have time to consider and answer her letter now and therfor must defer it to the next post : As to your two questions in hast I say : irst That the beginnings of a dropsy are not to be negleo ted and I fear here will increase and prevaile upon her if by suitable remédies a stop be not put to it and the sooner the better. 2° The recommending the use of a remédie that one does not know is very rarily to be done and can have noe other reasonable foundation but the truth, memory and judgement of him that touches the expérience of it, and therefore you are a better judge than I how far Mr Philipps is to be rely'd on in the case. Cannot the receit begot? Trie that, for I remédie when possibily this may be. By the next post I shall write to you further. I am, Dear Sr,your most afïectionate and humble servant
J. Locke.
My service to the Batchelor. I beg your pardon for the trouble of the enclosed and thank you for thelast.
[ 1 7] London 9 Sept. 97.
I return you my thanks for yours of the 6th which came safe yesterday with the bill inclosed which I shall make use of according to your direction. I am glad the change of medicines falls out whilst you are at home, that the several efïects of the différent courses may be observed. The fullnesse you mention Mrs Clarkes has of late after her first sleep, I hope upon the change she was going to make when you write goe quite off and she will hear noe more of. I looke upon it to be of noe conséquence and soe she needs not trouble her thoughts about it.
I came just now from your son John at Little Chesly. I desired Mr Malpus if any thing should happen to him to acquaint me with it. A day or two since the Mistress had send to him to let him know the child had a cough and she feard a consumption, upon which Mr Malpus went thither reported to me the symptoms. I went thither myself to day and was glad to finde the Mistres's care had represented it to her more dangerous than I found it. He was abroad in the fields when I came ; he looks well, eats well and sleeps well and coughed not once ail the time I was there, nor had not as he told me coughed above
once or twice since dinner ; this was between five and six o'clock. I
thinke thereisnoemanner of danger init. However I haveordredhim some things and hope the next news I shall hear of him is that his cough is quite gone. They have promised to send me word the beginningofthe weeke. And if then be any occasion (as I believe there will not) I will visit him again.
I am, Dear Sr, your most afïectionate and humble servant.
Çray give my service to your wife and my wife to and to your son. M1* Freke was well this morning and remembers you and Mr Pawling your humble servant.
7 Mai 1698. Or. Let. 65.
24 Fev. 1698/9. Or. Let. 66.
[18] Oates 23 Jan. 1699 — 1700.
[Clarke :] Mr Locke to have the progress of the Drs relateing to the
Commission of trade observed and taken care of etc Reced 27
Jan. 1699.
Dear Sr
I thank the Collège for their kind remembrance of me and you in particular for yours of the 20th and for the good news therein of Mrs Clarkes health and the rest of the family. For if she has not grown worse at this [1 mot] time of the year 'tis to be hoped she will grow better with the return of the spring. As to the Drs concerne, he did not think that the order or those yet moved for the order should name or soe much as reflect on him in particular as most zealous in that business ; he thought this order might be an opening of that scène whereby to corne at what is designed, and therefore that which he desired and does désire that the steps and progress of it may be observed and taken care of. This whole family are well and présent their service to you and the whole collège. My service to the other Moyety.
I am,
Dear Sr, your most afif. humble servant J. Locke.
For Edw. Clarke Esq. thèse.
[19] 15 Jul. 1700.
Dear Sr
Though I am unwilling to hinder the efficacy of the waters by letters that may interfère in the least with your drinking them, yet I cannot forbear any longer to enquire after your health and whether you receive not more benefit when you are than you did when you writ to me the 25 of the last month. I shall trouble you with noe remembrances or any thing else but barely that I writ as you desired to Mrs Clarke. And I expect noe longer an answer from you but the three words / a m better.
I am your most afF. humble servant.
J. Locke.
[Clarke :] Recevd the 1 7th 1 700. Answd the same day.
23 Août 1700. Or. Let. p. 71.
23 Août 1700. Fx. B. II. 479.
[20] 2 Sept. 1700.
Dear Sr
I have both before and since yours of the 27 of Aug. thought over and over again of the state of your health. And after ail the considérations I have had about it I have thèse things to propose for the reestablishingof it : Either that you take the Jesuits powder and steele made into pills together, or that you goe away to the Spaw and drink the Spaw waters. If you take the steel pills you must résolve to take them a good while together and ride with them every day, without which I doe not expect they should have any great effect. And your rideing must not be for an hour or two but soe much and soe long every day as when a man travels a journey. The préparation of steel I should think best in the case is a préparation of it of Dr Sydenham with Extract of Gentian, which I believe is to be had at Mr Malthus's. But if any physician you shall consult there (for that I think is necessary) shall think better of any other préparation of steel to be used with the Jesuit powder, I think it noe great matter if another be taken instead of that préparation of Dr Sydenham. But this, I think, considering the time of the year noe time should be lost. I therefore write this to you not knowing when a swelling lately risen in my back
will let me corne to town. They who have seen it by its bigness and redness think it a boyle. I something doubt of it because it has noe head upon it nor is soe extrême painful as to answer that name, though it be tender enough to keep me from airing on horseback. Wat it will corne to I know not but to keep myself quiet I find necessary. And an oyntment I use to it I hope will bring it to breake in a little time. I long mightly to see you and since rideing and the air is good for you why should any thing hinder you from rideing down hither though Mrs Clarke be in town. Especialy since [I can at présent bear neither horse nor coach, and if you saw me how I labour for breath in the morning when I rise, you would not think the town air very fit for me.]
Pray give my humble service to Mrs Clarke and those others that remembred me in your last letter.
I am your affectionate humble servant. J. L.
My Lady Masham is heartly concerned for your health and gives you and Mrs Clarke, Mr Freke and my wife her humble service.
[Clarke] : Mr Locke's prescription for my health.
[21] Oates 16 sept. 1700.
Dear Sr
In answer to yours of the I2tb which I received just now give me leave to say that I thought you would have advised with some physician upon the place I counselled you, and then needed say noething of the quantities of steel and Jesuit powder. Next I know not exactly the préparation nor quantities of the ingrédients of Dr Sydenhams préparation of steel with extract of Gentian. I have only heard of it and think it a good one but never prescribed it, nor know how to prescribe it till I know it more particulary. Farther I think not this prescription is sufficient of itself to rénove your distemper without rideing joyn'd with it. There are the reasons why I entered not farther into particulars but only pointed at this method as that which I upon my best considération thought proper for you. If you would have me prescribed the préparation above mentioned, you must furnish me from Mr Malthus with the description of it, and tell me you are resolved and fitted to ride.
[Half methods never produce whole or any cures, and health is worth ail that we can do. My swelling is not gone. It goes but slowly .
It has kept me quiet and I have not been on horseback ever since I mentioned it to you. I count it a great loss to me, now winter is at hand and thereby my time of rideing near an end. Forthough I rode but gently a mile or two when it was fair after dinners yet that airing and exercise, which is ail that I have, I thought did me good.]
Mr. Furlys son whom I have looked for and doe still every day is not yet corne. As soon as I see him, you shall hear from me.
I am, Dear Sr,
your most afï. humble servant J. Locke.
My humble service to Mrs Clarke, my wife and the Batchelor. My Lady and the rest here give you their humble service.
[22] Oates 3 Oct. 1700.
Dear Sr
Yours of the I9th of Sept. I received not till the latter end of the last week, which delay had noe great mischief because the main part of it was answerd before it came to my hands by my last toyou, which I am very glad to finde by yours of the 26th came safe to your hand and satisfied you asto the affair of your son John. I was glad to finde you in soe good hands as Sr Richard Blackmores Ihope you will quickly finde some good efifect from his prescriptions and that I shall finde you with satisfaction giving me an account of it in your letters. The reason why I answer your letter soe late is because I received it not till Monday night last and to day is our first ordinary since that time. And the reason why I write soe short is because [I write in pain. I spend most of my time in bed and have ate nothing for some days but water-gruel. I hope in my next I shall be able to give a better account of my spindle-shanks.]
My service to Mrs Clarke, my wife and the Batchelor.
I am, Dear Sr,
your most afï. humble servant
My Lady Masham always enquires after your health with much
1) Richard Blackmore, mort en 1729, écrivain fécond en vers et en prose. Reçu maître ès arts à Oxford, il voyagea beaucoup sur le continent, fit ses études médicales à Padoue et devint membre du Royal Collège of Physicians en 1687. Il devint censeur du Collège en 1716. Ses principaux écrits médicaux sont postérieurs à 1700; mais il avait déjà à Londres beaucoup de réputation. Dict. of Nat. Biog.
concerne. She commendes me to présent her service to you and the persons above mentioned. I perceive you seeMrPawlingsometimes which make me take the liberty to désire you to give him the inclosed when he cornes in your way. It requires noe great hast.
[23] Oates 18 Oct. 1700.
Dear Sr
Yoùrs of the 1 7th and your other of a former date I received both just now with the inclosed in them and have only time to tell you that my enquiry concerning your journey into the country was not bare curiosity. I concluded by that time I would see what effect Sr R. B's *) prescriptions had upon you and that if you found good by them you would continue the same method. If not that then you would probably leave them orï because of the difficulty of haveing the Spaw waters. Upon such a resolution I intended to advise you to adde to each dose of his pils gr. XV : of Jesuits powder and soe to take them only in the morning and ride upon them and soe spend your day in rideing. For then your excuse about not haveing a horse (which at best I thought noe very good one) I concluded would be at an end. Sr, if it were in my power I would make drinking a dish of CofTee or Chocolat every day a perfect cure for you. But ail that I can do for you being to tell you what I think will or will not restore you to your former health, I cannot forbeare under the earnest concern I take for it, to tell you that as far as I can guess, neither steel nor any other medicines I can think of will doe it without the exercise I propose, which is the only method of physick I can expect a cure from, of physick I say, for what nature itself may doe I say not. But that lingering way noe body I think will advise you to. My thanks to Madam for her letter. The post is going. I am her and your most afï. humble servant
J. Locke.
[My sore leg permits me to sit up very little. I hoped to have it well before this time, but it is not so forward this way as I thought.] My service to Batchelor. „ When his son cornes I shall take the same care of him as of my owne,, Thèse are the words of Mr Furly letter which you sent me enclosed in yours.
1) Richard Blackmore, Vid. Lett. du 3 Oct. 1700.
[24] 21 Oct. I7OO.
Sir,
I have not soe good an account of your health by my cosin King1) as I could wish. What I think may or may not be conducive to it I writ in my last and could not forbear to doe it out the great désire I have to see you perfectly restor'd. That must be my excuse for the liberty I have taken there in.
I shall have an occasion speedly to pay a considérable sum of money. I would therefore désire you, if it suits with your convenience, to pay fifty pounds which was due at Michaelmas and six pound (which with someodde money was the balance of our account when we last adjusted it) in ail £ 56 — to Mr Churchill for me. This I propose to you only upon condition it may suit your convenience to pay it presently, if not I would not have you straiten yourself. I will rather stay some time. My service to yours and to my wife and the rest of your family and so to the Batchelor
I am, Dear Sr your affectionate humble servant
My Lady and ail there give you their service.
[25] Oates 25 Oct. 1700.
Dear Sr
Besides the great âge of Sr Thomas Willis who is concluded to be above 90 and the infirm health of his son there is a new accident that has happen'd lately in his family. That make my lady think it reasonable to be quick with him in the affair containd in the two inclosod. His grandson is newly married without his father and grandfather consent or[i mot]. The match is soe beneeth him every way that it troubles his grandfather very much and has made his infirm father keep his bed and 'tis thought will indanger his life. My Lady therefore desires you will be pleased so dispatch away the inclosed to Sr Thomas Willis as soon as with convenience you can. The Bishop of Gloucester she says is an acquaintance of Sr Thomas Willis, soe that if his Lordship be in town she thinks it would forward the business if his hand were also to the letter as well as yours and mine. But if the Bishop be out of town she thinks it will be too much lose of time
1) Peter King.
to stay for it and desires it may goe presently . She was going to have the direction write on the eut side but considering that you will frank it,begsthe favour that you will superscribe it according to her postscript. She gives you and ail your family and Mr Freke her humble service.
Haveing heard nothing from you since my last to you, I would flatter myself that your health mends. I shall be very glad to receive assurance of it from you. [My leg mends though but slowly and it will not let me return to my ordinary course of life, but whenever Isit up an hour or two too long, it grows troublesome and painful, and is sensibly the worse for it.] I am, Dear Sr your most aff. humble servant
My service to yours and my wife and to the Batchelor.
[26] Oates 5 Nov. 1700.
Dear Sr
[My leg is now, I thankGod,sowell that it confines me no longer to the lazy lying in bed, which I was quite weary of, so that that malady I look on now quite over. Whether I am much to rejoice in it I do not well know, for though the settling of a humour in my legs is not a very désirable thing in one of my âge and has usually trouble and danger enough in it, yet if I do not mistake, my lungs were much easier whilst the sores were running than they were before. This I said and thought I felt then, but, this I am sure that I breathe much worse now than when my leg was ill. Whether it be the coming on of winter alone that causes it, and the cold and foggy weather, I cannot be positive. Every winter is of course to bring a greater load upon me till it put an end to my breathing at ail.]
I am very sorry your health flnds noe amendement yet as it might and ought to doe if those strong principles of life which are in you were a little roused and excited. I conceive [that if] it were done you might be restored to your former vigour.
My Lady Masham returns you her thanks for your care and trouble about her business. She did not intend it should have cost you soe much pains. But the calling in that money or mending the security she thinks necessary, for the grandsons marrying 'tis thought will break his father's heart. I returne you also my thanks for complying soe readily with my désire.
And now I must beg your assistance for a man whom I am sure if you knew as well as I doe, you would doe ail you could without my asking. Your Cousin Hopkins I am informed leaves Covent-Garden lectures at Christmas next, and I know not a fitter man to succeed him than Mr Anderson. I take him to be a very honest good man that désignes to doe ail the good in his calling. I have heard him preach more than once and know not where to goe if were in town to hear better sermons than his. That therefore which I beg of you for him is that you would get your Cousin Hopkins to use what interest he has in the Parish for him or at least to favour him as often as he can with his pulpit during the time of probationary preaching. I think the man really desserves assistance and encouragement and therefore I beg earnstly yours for him to your cousin Hopkins or any one else you know of that Parish. I have this day sent Mr Anderson a letter to you which may serve to introduce him to you and if there be any farther particularities in the case to give him an opportunity to explain them. Pray give my most humble service to Mrs Clarke and to my wife.
I am, Dear Sr, your afïectionate humble servant.
Not being able to rely much on my man James's memory whether it be the Globe or the Bail in Hungerford market where Mr Johnston's waterman uses to call, I must beg the favour of you to send the inclosed to that aie house by one of your servants, who will easier finde the house where his waterman calls whether it be signe of the Globe or the Bail.
[27] 5 Novembre 1700.
The Gentleman that brings you this is that Mr Anderson whom I writ to you concerneing by this post more at large. And shall only say to you here again what I then told you, that if you know him as well as I doe, he would not need any other recommendation. I désire you to consider him as one whom I very much concerned for and to assist him what you can in what he desires. You will not think your pains or interest misbistowed though I should not as I doe, take part in it.
I am Sr your most afïectionate and humble servant
J. Locke.
1 1 Nov. 1700. Or. Let. 79.
Oates ioFebr. 170—
Dear Sr
When Sr Francis went to town I desired him to give you my service and to let me know whether you were there that I might write to you as soon as I knew you were in London. Yourkindletterof the 8th gives me an assurance of that though it be too silent of your health which was another part of my enquiry by Sr Francis. I will hope hearing noe complaints from you that it is pretty well reestablished. [I cannot yet get my legs well. They soe much inconvenience me when I am up, that they make me spend most of my time in bed, wherein I have noe great satisfaction. As to my lungs they keep their ordinary course and feel the effect of winter.] [This is not a time to be ill.] I long to hear this days success by which I shall make some guess of the future. Pray give my service and thanks to ail that remembred me at Chipley. I shall write more at large in my next. This is only in short to welcome you to town, for though in this place out of the world I am in noe hurry, yet the messenger make me in hast. I am, Dear Sr,
Your most affectionate humble servant
My service to the Batchelor, My Lady and his family give you both theirs.
[I returne you may thanks for yours of the 1 ith instant with the heads of the speech in it. I have since seen the speech itself, and though ail the rest are fit for the considération of the great council of the nation yet there is none but the second that seems at présent fit to take up your time and thoughts, for unless it be so well considered as to provide a security for us and the rest of Europe, what making a stir and provisions about the rest will signify I confess I do not see. But 'tis like I may mistake, and you will forgive thèse melancholic visions of a man out of the world, who lies abed and dreams.]
The inclosed I send you open that you may either send it forwards or back to me to be amended as you see cause. For in this, you know,
J. Locke.
[Oates] i4Feb. 170--
Dear Sr
I must continue to be governed by you, and 'tis not barely answering the letter with affection and ail your prudent advice I can give unless it be suited to some particular turne which you know how to direct to make it as I would have it most serviceable to you both.
[You must excuse me to my wife for not writing to her. Tis with much ado I get time for this. My untoward legs made me keep my bed ail day yesterday, and I think I shall do the same to-day, for I am not yet up and it is now past two in the afternoon.] Mrs Smithby has lately laid out some money for me and I have write her by this post to beg to buy me some other things. I have directed her to you for money I beg you therefore that what money she shall désire of you not exceeding twenty pounds you would furnish her with. I have not given her a bill nor mention'd any sum to her not knowing what she has or will lay out.
I am, Dear Sr, your aff. humble servant.
J. Locke.
My service to the Batchelor, my Lady gives to the collège hers.
INDEX DES NOMS PROPRES
Alleaume, chanoine Jacques, 59.
Allix, Pierre 177I.
Amorie van der hoeven, Abr. des 152,
Anderson, Mr. 251.
Andrews, Mr. 231.
Anglachi, I' 68, 70, 73.
Arminius, Jac. 150, 151, 154, 1643.
Arminius, Laurens 1643 Arminius, Maria 164s.
ASPENALL OU ASPINAL, 72.
Attorney, Mr. 230, 232.
Auzout, 18, 21, 444.
Bacon 40, 43.
Balthasar, Don (Isaac Orobio de Castro)
Baluze, 32.
Bank, Sir John 15*.
Baucœur, 37.
Baudrand, 44.
Barker, 190, 2112.
Barlaeus, Caspar 151. 152.
Bayle, Pierre 197*.
Beauharnais, François de 1.
Beauty, Mr. 20, 23.
Bel, 72.
Bernard, Edward 5, 6, 30, 36, 64, 76, 194. Bernier, 16, 18, 26, 37, 52, 56, 63, III. Bigot, Emeric 2, 10, 44.
Bisschop, Rem Egbertsz 152.
„ Simon (Vid. Episcopius).
„ Geertruid 152.
Blackmore, Richard 242, 248.
Blegny, 37I.
Blondellus, Dav. 153.
Boccalint, 30.
Boileau, 3.
BOUHOURS, Père, 8.
Bourgeois, 16.
Bouvet, Père 133.
Boyle, Robert H. 5, 24, 28, 31, 35, 64,
Bradbury, baron 232.
Brederode, Amelia Wilhelmina van 186I.
„ Johan Wolfart van 1861.
Bridges, Mr. 232.
Briot, 37.
Brisban, Mr. 21, 27, 68, 79, 73, 105.
Bruin, Joh. de 155.
Budgen, Mr. 60.
Burnet, Thomas 183.
„ Gilbert 184I, 185.
Byl, 238.
Calvin, 150, 154.
Calixtus, 156.
Cappel, Jaques 208.
Carré, 135.
Cassini 8, 39I, 444.
Caton, 169.
Cene, du ou le 177.
Charas Moïse 34, 35, 67, 74.
Chardin, Jean 59.
Charleton, 102.
Chérubin, Père 2, 44.
Churchill, A. 202, 207, 237, 249.
Ciceron 169.
Clarke, Sr. Edward 226 — 227.
„ Mrs. 231, 232, 235, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 251.
„ John 226, 243, 247.
„ Betty, 227.
„ Guinay, 237.
„ Sammy, 240.
Clément, 137.
Cloeck, Anthonia 1928.
Conseillère, de la 197*.
Coste, Pierre 213^ 214I, 216I, 224.
