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Abbot, George (A Brief Description of the Whole World), 11

Abingdon, 177

Act of Uniformity, 45–6, 51, 81, 117

Aesop’s Fables, 236, 306, 441–2

Afterlife and divine reward, 147, 342–3

Aigues-Mortes, 125

Aix, 125

Allestree, Richard (The Whole Duty of Man), 47

All Saints’ Church, High Laver, 1, 460

All Saints’ Church, Wrington, 1

Alps, 146–8

Amsterdam, 197–201, 207–17, 219–21, 230–9, 248–9, 252, 260

Angers, 144–5

Argyll, Earl of, 178, 217–19

Aristotle, 17, 18, 21

Arles, 125

Arlington, Lord, 60

Ashcraft, Richard, 219

Association of ideas, 417–18

Astrop, 71

Atheism, 127, 350, 351, 371

Atkins, Francis, 20

Atlantic Ocean, 145

Aubrey, John, 8, 109

Avery, 143

Avignon, 124, 125

Aylesbury, 191

Aylsford, 164

Bacon, Francis, 413

Bagshaw, Edward (“Great Question concerning things indifferent in religious worship”), 39–46

Bank of England, 333

Barbeyrac, Dr. Charles, 125

Barbeyrac, Jean, 427

Banks, Caleb, 130, 135–8, 142–8, 158–9

Banks, Sir John (and Lady Banks), 130, 135–8, 146, 158–9, 164

Barometer, 67, 428

Bassett, Thomas, 323

Bates, Mrs. Susan, 10

Bath, 21, 27, 290, 303, 410

Bathhurst, Ralph, 30, 47, 59

Battersea, 326

Beaconsfield, 166

Beaulot, Mr., 145

Beauregard, 143

Beavis, Margaret, see Blomer, Margaret

Belief and evidence, 104

Beliefs, impossibility of imposing, 42, 232

Belluton, Somerset, 5, 7–8

Belvoir Castle, 92

Berkeley, Elizabeth (later Burnet), 431–2

Berkeley, Sir Charles, 48

Berkeley, George, 331

Berkeley, John, 120

Bernagie, Peter, 198

Bernier, François (Abrégé de la philosophie de Gassendi), 139

Bexwells, 155, 163

Birch, Elizabeth, 161

Birch, Samuel, 161

Bishop’s Stortford, 297, 300, 309, 312

Blackader, William, 218

Black Hall, 24, 25, 78

Blackwall, 174

Blois, 143

Blomer, Margaret (née Beavis), 80, 96, 140

Blomer, Rev. Thomas, 80, 96, 112, 140

Blood, nature of, 58–9, 68–9

Blount, Lister, 66, 77

Bobert, Jacob, 161, 166

Bodleian Library, 193, 302, 436, 445

Bold, Samuel (A short discourse of the true knowledge of Christ Jesus; Some Passages in the Reasonableness of Christianity, etc. and its vindication … with some animadversions on … “Socinianism Unmasked; A Reply to Mr Edwards Brief Reflections), 377–9, 385–9, 397–8, 412–13, 421, 433, 434, 441, 451, 452

Bordeaux, 122, 134, 145, 146

Borel, Pierre, 30

Boughton, Northamptonshire, 334

Bourbon, 151

Bourne, H.R.F., 154, 160, 216, 218

Boyle, Robert (An Invitation to a free and generous Communication of Secrets and Receipts in Physick), 34–5, 51–8, 64, 67–9, 76–8, 105, 109, 138, 156, 157, 158, 164, 165, 172, 179, 237, 303–4, 306, 307, 309, 314, 327, 415

Natural History of the Air, 303–7, 319, 445

Brandenburg, Elector of, 60

Bremen, Mr., 198

Bretby, Derbyshire, 334

Breteile, Mr., 147

Brisbane, John, 140, 142, 150, 171

Bristol, 7, 303

British Museum, 124

Brouchier, Dr. Claude, 125

Broughton, John (Psychologia; or an account of the Rational Soul), 441

Brounker, Lord, 162

Brownower, Sylvanus (“Syl”), 148, 152, 161, 191, 195, 220, 300, 302, 304, 305, 312, 326, 332, 370, 419

Burford, 178

Burgersdicius, F., 47

Burnet, Gilbert, 431

Burnet, Thomas (Remarks upon an Essay concerning Human Understanding; Second Remarks; Third Remarks), 388, 391–4

Burnett, Thomas, 367–8, 416

Burridge, Ezekiel, 358, 425

Busby, Richard, 11, 13, 14, 19

Cade, Anthony (A Justification of the Church of England), 7

Calais, 119, 152

Calvinistic puritanism, 8–9

Cambridge, 16, 48, 174, 179, 221, 273, 308–9, 399, 411, 414

Cambridge Platonists, 174, 175, 253

Campbell, Lord Louden, 210, 213

Canal du Midi, 146

Carcassone, 134

Carolina, 90–1, 110, 115, 122–3, 156

Cassini, Giovanni, 139

Cassiobury, 179, 190

Celleneuve, 125

Cervantes (Don Quixote), 434

Chalon, 123

Charas, Moïse (Pharmacopée royale galénique et chimique), 138

Charles I, 8–11, 36

Charles II, 11, 37, 40, 78, 82, 85, 109, 110, 153–5, 159, 169–72, 178, 179, 182, 188–90, 207–17

succession to, 155, 162, 164, 170–1, 217

Charleton, William, 124, 146, 147, 161, 172

Chesterfield, Earl of, 334

Chicheley, Sir John (and Lady), 125

Child, Josiah (Brief Observations concerning Trade, and Interest of Money), 88

Chillingworth, William, 433

Chinon, 145

Chipley Park, 175, 181, 194, 238, 303

Christianity, fundamentals of, 311–12, 336–8, 380–3; see also Jesus as Messiah.

Chudleigh, Thomas, 210–11, 217

Churches: Anglican, 8–9, 39–43, 46, 51, 81–2, 84–5, 269, 311–12

Calvinist, 62

Catholic (see also Catholics, attitude to), 62, 63, 110

Lutheran, 62, 235

Churchill, Awnsham (and John), 306, 308, 310, 312, 346, 358, 385, 434, 436, 444

Cicero (De Natura Deorum; De Officiis), 12, 17, 47, 180, 199, 341, 433

Cirencester, 191

Civil society, 186–7

Civil War, 8–10, 17, 78

causes of, 8–9, 17, 39–43

Clapham, 161, 180

Clarendon, Lord, 72, 73

Clarke, Betty, 440, 444

Clarke, Edward (“Grave Squire”), 175, 179, 180, 194–5, 197–8, 203–4, 238, 239, 249–50, 253–61, 270–1, 283, 303–7, 309–10, 321, 325–6, 335–6, 344–5, 347–8, 358, 421, 434, 440, 443–4

Clarke, Edward (the younger), 203, 249–50, 305–8, 336, 416–17

Clarke, Mary (née Jepp), 175, 194, 200, 204, 222, 273–4, 279, 304, 307–8, 440

Cleves, 60–6, 223

Cochran, Sir John, 218

Cole, Thomas, 17–18

Cole, Dr. William, 285, 440–1, 451

College, Stephen, 172–3, 192

“College”, the, 335–6, 344, 347, 357, 360, 362, 420

Colleton, Sir Peter, 91, 110

Collins, Anthony (Discourse of Free-Thinking), 436–9, 441, 443–4, 446–54, 456–8

Comprehension, 167–8, 269–70; see also Toleration.

Conscience, 41–2, 51–2, 82, 84, 169

Conventicle Act, 82

Cooper, Anthony Ashley, see Shaftesbury.

Coste, Pierre, 3, 394, 400, 411, 425, 427

Covel, John, 399, 411, 414

Coxe, Dr. Daniel, 314

Coxe, Dr. Thomas, 137, 142

Cranston, Maurice, 163, 300

Cromwell, Oliver, 19, 35, 36, 78

Cromwell, Richard, 35–7

Cudworth, Damaris, see Masham, Lady

Cudworth, John, 368

Cudworth, Ralph (Intellectual System of the World), 174, 416

Cudworth, Mrs. Ralph, 300, 309, 356, 358, 359, 368

Cunningham, Alexander, 367–8

Currency, problems with and recoinage of, 294–6, 304–5, 321–2, 347–8, 355–60, 363–4; see also Economics.

Ciphers, 61, 194

Cyprianus, Abraham, 198

Dahl, Michael, 369

Danby, Thomas, 116

Dare, Thomas, 213, 217, 219

Dauntsey, 303

Davenant, William (The Tragedy of Albovine), 24

Decency and order in worship, 42, 50, 169, 312

Declaration of Indulgence, 110, 113–14, 117, 251, 276

Declaration of Rights, 266

Deism, 349, 352, 437

Delft, 239

Demosthenes, 13, 17

Desaguliers, John, 278

Descartes (and Cartesians), 18, 35, 76–7, 86, 105, 158, 165, 237, 248, 410, 425

Desmaiseaux, Pierre, 90–1

Deventer, 202

Dickinson, Dr. Edmund, 314

Dijkveld, Everard, 250–1

Dissenters, 40, 82;

penalties for, 81, 82, 113–14, 167, 168

Dorington, James, 413, 421

Dorset Court, 270, 288

Dryden, John, 13

Duke, Isabella, 238, 239, 262, 303

Duke, Richard, 238–9

Earthquake, 315–16

Economics, 88–9, 115, 290–6, 304–5, 321–2, 347–8, 355–60; see also Currency.

double value of money, 292–3;

Edict of Nantes, 121

Edwards, John (Some Thoughts concerning the Several Causes and Occasions of Atheism; Socinianism Unmasked; Socinian Creed; A Brief Vindication of the Fundamental Articles of the Christian faith, as also of the Clergy, Universitities, and Public Schools, from Mr. Locke’s Reflections on them in his Book of Education), 351–4, 376–86, 398–9, 433

Eliot’s Mr. Casaubon, 2

Ellis, John, 173, 177, 180

Enthusiasm, 176–7, 418–19

“Enquiry into the Barbarous Murther of the Earl of Essex”, 214

Epping, 434

Epping Forest, 300, 315, 349, 434

Esher, 162, 171

Essence, real and nominal, 241–7; see also Ideas, abstract.

Essex, Earl of, 179, 190, 192, 194, 210, 214

Euripedes, 13, 17

Evelegh, Anne, 24, 25, 27, 78

Evelegh, John, 24

Exeter House, 72–3, 77–105, 110

Faith and reason, 126–7, 171, 247–8, 390, 408–9, 418–19

Fell, John, 95, 96, 159, 162, 207–11

Ferguson, Robert (No Protestant Plot; An Enquiry into ...the Barbarous Murther of the late Earl of Essex), 174, 178, 180, 190, 210, 211, 213, 214, 217, 218, 238

Fermentation, 59, 68–9, 76–7, 86

Ferrers, Lord Robert, 334

Filmer, Sir Robert (Patriarcha: or the Natural Power of Kings), 182–5

Firmin, Thomas, 395

Five Mile Act (1665), 82

Flamsteed, John, 156, 158

Flavel, John, 47

Fleetwood, General Charles, 14

Fleetwood, William (An Essay on Miracles), 434–5

Fontenay, 145

Foukett, Mr., 249

Fowler, Edward, 448–9, 452, 454

France: Catholics in, 121–2

method of travel in, 123

Protestants in, 121–2

travel to, 96, 110, 111, 117–18, 163, 413

Freke, John (“the Bachelor”), 238–40, 258, 335–6, 347, 358, 359, 414

Frontignan, 125

“Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina”, 90–1, 151

Furly, Benjamin, 239, 249, 254, 260, 274, 286, 288, 290, 297, 308, 318, 322, 426

Galen, 68, 75–6, 81

Galileo, 156, 157

Garonne, 134

Gassendi, Pierre, 18, 138, 139

Geekie, Alexander, 430, 432

Gendron, Abbé François, 142

Glisson, Francis, 30, 86

Glorious Revolution, 2

Gloucester, 171

God, characteristics of, 163, 392–4

existence of, 54, 56, 253–4, 340, 372–3

uniqueness of, 409–10

Godefroy, Dr., 142–3

Godolphin, William, 60

Godwin, Thomas (Roman Antiquities), 11, 47

Goodall, Dr Charles, 190, 193, 262, 266, 270, 284–5, 429

Goodenough, Richard, 210, 218

Gorinchem, 203

Government, absolute and arbitrary, 8–9, 116–17, 153–5, 162, 182, 188–90, 217, 230–1, 261, 275–6

Government, legitimacy of, 182–90, 275

purpose of, 184

Graevius, Joannes, 216, 250–2, 263

Graves, Mr., 276

Gravesend, 119

Gravity, 2, 157, 408, 415

Gray’s Inn, 21, 33

Great Fire, the, 72

Great Plague, the, 59, 67

Greenhill, John, 92, 110, 256

Greenwich Hospital, 348, 419; see also Locke, Commissioner for.

Grenfeild, Thomas, 19, 20, 24

Grenville, Denis, 130–2, 141–2, 150, 254

Gresham College, 138

Grey, Lord Forde, 178, 211, 213, 218, 219

Grigg, Anna, 80, 125, 163, 222

Grigg, Thomas, 80, 95

Grigg, William, 442

Grimont, Mr., 203, 217, 230

Gristy, Mrs., 193

Groningen, 202

Grotius, Hugo (de Veritate), 47, 60–1

Guenellon, Peter, 198, 219–21, 223, 236, 239, 248, 255, 282–3, 296, 327

Guez, Jean-Louis, 24

Guise, John, 253

Gulik van, Mr., 203

Haarlem, 201

Halley’s comet, 179

Hampden, Laetitia, 430

Hampton Court, 20

Happiness, 147

Harlow, 300, 326, 333, 444, 458

Harwich, 265

Hatton, Charles, 426–7

Hautville’s Quoit, 8

Hawkshaw, Richard, 90

Heemstede, 201

Herbert, Thomas, see Pembroke, Earl of,

Herman, Paul, 203

High Laver, Essex, 1, 221

Highwaymen, 315, 349

Hippocrates, 30

Hobbes, Thomas, 227

Hodges, Nathaniel (“Lysis”), 98, 112, 171, 423

Holland and United Provinces, 194, 196, 296–7, 310

tour of, 201–3

Homer, 12, 14, 17

Honeywood, Sir William, 365

Hooke, Robert, 58, 109, 147, 158, 164, 174

Hooker, Richard, 172, 434

Horace, 457

Hubin, Mons., 139

Hudde, Johannes, 409–10

Hudson, John, 436

Huygens, Christian, 139, 277, 278

Hyères, 125

Ideas, abstract, see also Essence, real and nominal; 241–2

origin of, 99–101, 106–8, 228–9

Identity and difference, 391, 405–6

Immateriality of the soul, on, 407–8; see also Thinking matter.

Immigration, 385

Immortality and resurrection, 57, 342–3, 392, 393, 405, 408, 415–16, 433

Imposition by force, religious, 82–6, 232–3, 285–8, 311, 454; see also Dissenters, penalties for.

Imposition of morally indifferent things, 39–43

Incarnation, 405–6

Indulgence, see Toleration

Innatism, 55, 56, 225–8, 253–4, 371, 425, 446–7, 453–4

Interest rate, 88–9, 115, 290–4, 304–5

Isabella, the, 265

Isocrates, 13, 17

Italy, 146–8

Ivye, Dr. Ayliffe, 33–4, 38, 43

Jackman, John, 328

James, Duke of York, see James II.

James II, 113, 114, 153–5, 159, 162, 164, 166, 171, 178, 179, 190, 217, 219, 229–31, 240, 251–2, 261–3, 275–6, 283–4;

question of exclusion of, 154–5, 164, 166

James, Henry, 399

Jenkins, Sir Leoline, 193

Jenkins, Robert (Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion), 412

Jesus as Messiah, 337–8, 352, 354, 379–83

Jews, 90, 121, 124

Jolly, Pierre, 147

Justell, Henri, 138–9

Justin, 47

Keeling, Josiah, 191, 192

Keene, Edmund, 5

Keene, John, 5

Key, Mr van der, 223

King, Anne, Lady, 174, 176

King, Peter (The History of the Apostles’ Creed), 414–15, 419, 423–4, 426, 430–2, 434, 437–8, 440, 442–4, 446, 448, 450–2, 456–8

King, Rev. Richard, 423–4

King, William, 320, 321

Kipling Timothy, 370, 413

Knatchbull, Major, 163

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 2, 412, 456

Knowledge, and faith, belief, opinion, 98–105, 172, 245–8

Knowledge, focus on useful and practical, 3, 92–5, 104–5, 108–10, 122–4, 129, 133, 143–5, 147, 246–7

Knowledge, stress on collaboration in acquiring, 109

Knowledge, acquisition of, see Medicine, observational, non-theoretical method in.

Knowledge as perception of agreement between ideas, 372–3, 389–90, 403–5

Knowledge, its extent and limits, 93–4, 107, 126, 128–9, 132–3, 224–5, 243–7

Knowledge, origin of, 225, 228–9

Labadie, Jean (and Labadists), 201–2

Languedoc, 146

La Rochefoucault, 2

La Rochelle, 145–6

Laud, Archbishop William, 8–9, 16–17

Launay, Gilles de, 138

Law of nature, 38, 39, 51, 53–7, 288–90, 339–41

Layton, Henry, 427

Le Clerc, Jean (Sentimens de quelque théolgians; Bibliothèque universelle de la Republique de Lettres), 219, 223–4, 236, 249, 252–3, 288, 311, 335, 367

Lee, Henry (Anti-Scepticism), 441

Leeuwarden, 201, 202

Leeuwenhoek, Antony, van, 239

Leibniz, Gottfried, 138, 367–8, 416

Leiden, 203–7, 260

Lenham, Mr., 300

Léry, Jean de, 145

Les Invalides, 120

Leyden, Wolfgang von, 128

Liberty, of conscience, 51–2

of judgement, 52

of will, 52, 320–1, 327–9, 335, 425–6, 429–30

Licensing Act, 344–5

Light of nature, 54, 69

Limborch, Francis van, 410, 426, 434, 448

Limborch, Philip van (Theologia Christiana), 198–9, 216, 219–21, 223, 230, 239, 249, 269, 270, 282–3, 299, 301, 311, 312, 319, 322, 336, 348, 409–10, 425–6, 429–30

Little Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 335

Livy, 12, 433

Lloyd, William, 444, 446

Locke (née Keene), Agnes (mother), 5–6, 20, 30

Locke, Anne (aunt), 5

Locke, Edward (uncle), 5, 44

Locke, Frances (aunt), 5

Locke, John (father), 5–10, 14–15, 20, 21, 23, 36–7, 43–4

LOCKE, John,

accounts, journals, notetaking, and records, xxvii–xxviii, 3, 10–11, 14, 16, 120–3, 200–1, 237, 239; see also “Méthode … nouvelle de dresser des Recueils”.“Méthode … nouvelle de dresser des Recueils”.

aliases and pseudonyms, 219, 223, 230, 266, 287

annuity, 115, 194, 195

anonymity, 313, 325–6, 348, 350–1; see also publication, attitude to; controversy, dislike of.

anti-clericalism, 167, 327, 363

artefacts, technology, and manufacturing processes, interest in, 120, 124, 138, 142–5, 152, 156, 157, 159, 165, 172, 174, 201, 237, 250, 303, 333

astronomical observations, 139, 147, 149, 157–8

attitude to foreign countries, 61–3, 111–12

aunts, see Anne Locke, Frances Locke.

biographies of, 17–18

birthplace, see Wrington.

books, booksellers, book auctions, 170, 179, 203, 269, 302, 344–5, 438

botany and horticulture, interest in, 47, 122–3, 144, 160, 164–5, 166, 301, 326, 334

bread, taste for, 161

brothers, see Peter Locke, Thomas Locke.

calash, 449–52, 458

cards, playing, 123–4, 132, 254–5

Catholics, attitude to, 31–2, 63, 85–6, 90, 110, 121–2, 144–5, 166–8, 233, 418

Censor in Moral Philosophy, 53, 57

chairs, easy, 448, 449

character, personality, self-image, 2–4, 26–7, 79–80, 94–5, 120, 135, 143–5, 148–9, 169–70, 211–16, 238, 248, 254–5, 258, 263, 272–3, 316, 368, 401, 409, 419, 422–3, 457;

increasing fussiness, 438–9, 445, 448–50, 457

childhood home, see Belluton.

children, on the education of (see also Thoughts concerning Education.) 306–8;

duties of, 183, 186, 206;

his love of, 160, 204

Christ Church Studentship, 14–16, 32–3, 72–3, 78, 95–6, 116, 119, 149, 159;

expulsion from, 207–16, 251, 265, 301

college tutor, 47–9

colonial enterprises, 110–11, 115, 187, 428

Commissioner for Greenwich Hospital, 348

Commissioner for Trade, 361–3, 365–7, 369, 374–5, 394, 400, 412, 414, 417, 420–1

Commissioner of Excise Appeals, 271, 332, 348, 360, 362–3, 365, 375, 394–7, 400, 420, 431, 432

Comptroller of the Mint, 357

controversy, dislike of, 45, 212–13, 387–8, 453–4; see also publication, attitude towards; anonymity.

Council of Trade and Plantations, 112, 114–15, 271, 314–15, 321, 323

country life, boredom with, 23–4, 308, 310, 334, 349, 396

decimal, and standard systems of measurement, interest in, 91, 122, 124, 156–7, 201

discussion groups, 198, 249, 274, 278–9, 318–19

“de Intellectu”, see Essay concerning Human Understanding.

diplomatist, as, 60–6, 267–8, 400–1

“Directions on Education”, see Thoughts concerning Education.

drinks: beer, 215

chocolate, 300, 350, 446, 451;

coffee, 213, 350;

tea, 350;

strong drink, 268, 349–50;

water, 215, 349–50;

wine, 215

education: Westminster School, 10–15, 237

curriculum, 11–13;

discipline, 13;

his view of, 13;

King’s Scholarships, 12, 14–15.

Oxford (see also Christ Church Studentship): BA, 15–20;

curriculum and attitude towards, 16–18;

friends at, 19;

tutorial system, 17–18;

MA, 21–2

epitaph, 1

escape from Europe, 151–2

exile in Holland, 2, 3

fame, 1–2, 216, 426–8

family fortunes, and business affairs in Somerset, 10, 43–4, 66, 67, 158, 160–1, 166, 191, 194, 270, 350, 364, 369, 400, 414, 446, 456;

other business interests, 187, 333, 414, 419, 432, 442, 450; see also colonial enterprises.

father, see Locke, John (father).

food, 61–2, 161, 205, 285, 300, 450, 456–8

friends, letters to, 19, 24–30, 111

grandfather, see Nicholas Locke.

great-grandfather, see Sir William Locke.

holy orders, 53, 70, 73–4

ill-health, 4, 96–7, 105–6, 111, 116–18, 125–6, 134, 138, 152, 155, 161, 162, 166, 169–70, 180, 196, 200, 208, 210, 215, 261, 264, 267–9, 284–5, 288, 290, 296–9, 303, 305, 306, 316, 319–20, 326, 332, 334, 335, 348, 349, 359, 362–3, 365–6, 369–70, 374–5, 400–2, 410–11, 413, 417, 420, 424, 429, 432, 437, 440–3, 450, 451, 454;

corns, 205;

costiveness, 399;

eyesight, 429;

ear abscess and deafness, 430, 432, 434;

thinness, 105, 111, 308, 399–400, 446;

toothache, 359;

legs and back, swellings in, 422–4, 426, 429, 451, 454;

poor circulation, 423;

truss, 450–1

influence on founders of USA, 2

interregnum and Restoration, feelings about, 35–8, 40–1, 51, 82–4

languages: Arabic, 11

French, 123–4, 128, 165, 400;

Greek, 11–14, 21, 452;

Hebrew, 11, 14, 21, 452;

Latin, 11–14, 17, 124, 165, 201, 236, 306, 400;

last hours, 458–60

law and lawyers, 21, 33, 444

lecturer in Greek, 47

lecturer in Rhetoric, 50

life not under his control, 4, 64–5, 70, 78–9, 88, 97, 112–13, 149, 163, 172, 207, 212–13, 240

marriage, and, 23, 148–9, 152, 221–3

marriage advisor, 91–2, 430, 440, 444

medical degrees, 34, 68, 72–3, 95–6, 116, 160, 164

medical practice, 3–4, 70, 71–3, 79, 87–8, 95–7, 116, 125, 140–1, 149, 158–9, 165, 173, 216, 265, 309–10, 431

medicine and natural philosophy, interest in, 3–4, 30, 31, 33–5, 38, 52–3, 58–9, 66–70, 73, 75–7, 79–81, 86–8, 92–5, 109–10, 121, 125, 160, 165, 172, 197–8, 202–3, 302–5, 333, 428–9

mother, see Agnes Locke

nicknames, 66, 75, 89, 92, 335, 336

North America and colonies, travel to, 113, 171; see also escape from Europe.

papers, his, xxvii–xxviii

pardons, Royal, 209, 215–16, 229, 250–2, 258–60

patronage, 10, 14–15, 21, 77, 88, 112, 137, 191, 263, 265, 267–8, 270–1, 316, 357, 362, 366, 423, 428

physician, as, see medical practice,

poor and pauperism, 150, 396–7, 454

portraits, 2, 256–8, 273–4, 369, 456

plots, possible, and purported involvement in, 155, 162, 163, 172–3, 177–80, 190–6, 207–21, 240, 250–2

public affairs, involvement in, 267–9, 271, 304–5, 335–6, 355–60, 400–1, 420–1

publication, attitude to, 45, 214, 277, 281–3, 304, 313, 350–1, 358, 364, 393, 411, 436, 441, 443, 447; see also controversy, dislike of; anonymity.

railery, 238

religious affiliation, 9, 19, 46, 47, 51, 53, 167, 234–5, 432

riding, 172, 421–2, 431, 454

scholasticism, his anti-, 18, 108, 109, 133, 236–7, 242–3, 277

Secretary of Presentations, 112, 115

shorthand, 57, 128

slavery, 111, 187

spelling reform, 128

travel, on benefits of, 136

travellers’ accounts, interest in, 55, 139, 145, 198, 226, 228

tutor and educator, 97, 130, 135–8, 142–9; see also College educator

uncles, 5

upbringing and childhood, 6–9

verse writing, 19–20, 81, 110, 222

walking, liking for, 308

weather observations, register of, 67–8, 305, 307, 335, 402, 428–9, 439, 445–6

will, his, 436, 447–8, 460

Writings:

Abregé d’un ouvrage intitulé Essai philosophique touchant l’entendement, 252–4, 260, 346

“Anatomie”, 86–7, 93, 104, 109

“Answer to Mr Norris’s Reflections”, 318

“Answer to my Lord Keeper’s Queries”, 357

“Arte Medica”, 92–5, 104, 109

“Call to the nation for unity”, 283–4

“Can anyone by nature be happy in this life?”, 57

“Conduct of the Understanding”, 386–7, 458

“Defence of nonconformity”, 166–9, 171, 232, 342

“Elements of Natural Philosophy”, 415

“Encouragement of Irish linen manufacture”, 394–6

Epistola Tolerantia, see Letter concerning Toleration.

“Essay concerning Toleration”, 82–6, 168, 185, 231, 232

Essay concerning Human Understanding (“de Intellectu”), draft A, 98–105;

draft B, 106–10;

draft C, 224–9;

2nd ed, 313–14, 320–1, 323, 327–33;

3rd ed, 346, 417;

4th ed, 386, 417–19;

work towards, publication of and reaction to, 2, 142, 145, 160, 163, 199–200, 215, 217, 224–9, 240–8, 255–6, 272, 276–7, 279–81, 288–90, 313, 318, 320–1, 345, 367–8, 370–4, 388–9, 391–4, 402–9, 431–2, 441, 445, 446–7, 453;

French translation, 394, 425, 427;

Latin translation, 358, 425

Essay for the understanding of St Paul’s epistles, 452–3, 458

“Essay on infallibility”, 49–50

Essays on the Law of Nature, 53–7, 98, 103

“Excommunication”, 231

Fourth Letter for Toleration, 454–5

Further Considerations concerning the value of money, 359

“Guineas”, 355

Letter concerning Toleration 2, 230–6, 270, 274

reception of, 282–3, 285–8, 447

[“Letter from a Person of Quality”, 116–17, 182, 214]

Letter to the Bishop of Worcester, 370–4;

reception of, 386

“Méthode … nouvelle de dresser des Recueils”, 200–1, 236, 239, 424

“Miracles”, 434–6, 458

“Money”, 356

“Morbus”, 75–7

Observations upon the growth of vines and olives, 160

“Orozes, King of Albania”, 24

Paraphrase and notes on St Paul’s Epistles, 452–3, 458

“Propositions sent to the Lords Justices”, 357

Reasonableness of Christianity, 336–44, 348–9

reception of, 350–4, 363, 372, 385

Reply to the Bishop of Worcester’s Answer to his Letter, 387–91, 394;

reception of, 397–8

Reply to the Bishop of Worcester’s Answer to his Second Letter, 402–9;

reception of, 413–14

“Respiratio”, 58, 59

“Respirationis usus”, 53, 68–9

Second Letter concerning Toleration, 287–8, 310, 336

Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, 376–84

“Seeing all things in God”, 323–5, 458

Several Papers relating to Money, Interest and Trade, 368

“Short Observations on a paper entitled ‘For encouraging the coining silver money in England’ ”, 347–8

“Some considerations of the consequences of the lowering of interest and raising the value of money”, 304–5, 322

Some of the consequences that are like to follow upon lessening of interest, 88–9, 115

Some Thoughts concerning Education (“Directions on Education”), 203–6, 236–7, 249–50, 254, 325–7, 415;

reaction to, 326, 398–9

Third Letter for Toleration, 309–12, 322

Tracts on Government, 63, 182–4, 185, 231;

First Tract, 38–46, 49;

Second Tract, 50–2

Two Treatises of Government, 2, 181–90, 198, 199, 275–6, 281–2, 333, 434;

First Treatise, 182–5;

Second Treatise, 185–90

Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, 353–4

Locke, Nicholas (grandfather), 5, 9

Locke, Peter (brother), 5

Locke, Peter (cousin), 205

Locke, Peter (uncle), 5, 44, 80, 117, 160, 414

Locke, Thomas (brother), 5, 14, 43, 44

Locke, Thomas (uncle), 5

Locke, Sir William (great-grandfather), 5

Lockhart, Martha, 299, 303, 316, 428, 429

Loire, the, 122, 135, 137, 142–5

Long, Thomas (The “Letter for Toleration” deciphered), 285

Lottery, 419

Louis XIV, 113–14, 121, 153, 166, 230–1, 264

Loveday, Richard, 24

Lower, Richard, 34, 52, 58, 71, 78, 109, 175

Lowndes, William, 355–9

Lucan (Pharsalia), 11, 47

Lucian, 47

Lusignan, 134

Luton, 92

Lyde, Cornelius, 350, 400

Lynch, Thomas Sir, 162, 171

Lyon, 123, 124, 147–8

Mackworth, Humphrey (Peace at Home), 443

Maer, Mr. J., 427–8

Maes Knoll, 8

Magnol, Dr. Pierre, 125, 147, 161

Malebranche, Nicholas (Recherche de la Vérité), 199, 323–5, 446–7

Manners, Lady Dorothy, see Shaftesbury, Dorothy, Countess of.

Mapletoft, John Dr., 80, 105–6, 110–12, 125, 138, 141, 148

Marans, 145

Marseilles, 125

Mary II, 155, 262–7, 276, 283–4

Mary of Orange, Princess, see Mary II.

Masham (née Cudworth), Damaris, Lady, (“Philoclea”), 3, 174–7, 179, 180, 196, 201–2, 207, 208, 221–3, 253–4, 259, 267, 271, 284, 298–301, 312, 316, 322, 326, 335, 337, 410, 411, 416, 433, 441, 452

Masham, Esther (“Landabridis”, “Dib”), 300, 334, 335, 349, 369, 396, 399–400, 411, 429

Masham, Sir Francis, 221–2, 299–301, 304, 347, 424, 428

Masham, Francis (“Totty”, “Frank”), 300, 315, 334, 394, 411, 415, 429, 444

Masham, Winwood, 420

Mayer, Mr., 223

Meara, Dr Edmund, 43

Mechanical, corpuscularian picture of world, 76–7, 86–7, 105, 243–7, 415

Medicine, observational, non-theoretical method in, 80–1, 86–7, 92–5, 109–10, 246

Mercantilism, 88

Michard, Madame, 125

Middleton, Charles, 210–11

Miracles, 127, 171, 248, 309, 311, 344, 434–7

Molyneux, William (Dioptrica Nova. A Treatise of Dioptrics; The case of Ireland’s being bound by Acts of Parliament in England stated), 312–14, 320–1, 323, 326–8, 340, 350–1, 358, 367–9, 387, 410–12

Monck, General, 35, 36

Monmouth, Duke of, 155, 178, 179, 213, 217–19, 229, 237

Montagu, Lord, 334

Montague, Ralph, 140

Montpellier, 106, 118, 122, 125–34, 146, 147

Moral law: as God’s will, 53–7, 103, 339, 392, 393;

presupposes reward/punishment, 57, 343

Morality, demonstrative, 172, 246, 314, 340–1, 392

Morality, importance of, 133, 231; see also Afterlife and divine reward.

Morality, knowledge of, 55–6, 129, 339–41

Moral variety, 55, 56, 226–7

“Morbo Gallico”, 181, 197–8, 249, 270

Morbus Gallicus. Omnia quae extant de eo, 197

Mordaunt, Cary, 263, 264, 266, 284, 290, 303, 308, 310, 434, 442, 446

Mordaunt, Charles, 240, 263, 266, 267–8, 271, 284, 290, 303, 309, 326, 334–5, 361–2, 396, 434, 442

More, Henry, 254

Morton, Dr., 285

Nantes, Edict of, 230–1

Nature, state of, 185–6

Nayler, James, 21

Neale, Thomas (“For Encouraging the Coining of Silver Money in England”), 322

Nelthrop, Mr., 210, 213

Newton, Isaac (Principia mathematica naturalis philosophiae), 2, 277–9, 298, 308–9, 314, 331–2, 340, 356, 357, 415, 437–8, 442, 452

Nicole, Pierre (Essais de morale), 128, 142

Nijmegan, 203

Nîmes, 121, 124

Niort, 145

Nitrous salt, 59, 69

“No Protestant Plot”, 174, 214

Norris, John (Cursory Reflections upon a book called An Essay concerning Human Understanding; Essay towards the theory of the ideal or intelligible world), 316–18, 323–5, 388, 428, 446–7

Northumberland House, 80, 113

Northumberland, Lady, 80, 96, 111, 140–1, 163

Oates, Essex, 221, 288, 290, 296, 298–304, 306, 309, 310, 315, 316, 319, 321, 323, 326, 327, 333–5, 356–7, 368, 396, 400, 412, 413, 421–31

Oates, Titus, 153

Occasional conformity, 443

Occasionalism, see Perception,

Original sin, 338

Olantigh, Kent, 158

Orléans, 142–3

Osborne, Francis (Remedies of Love, Advice of a Father to his Son), 24

Overton, Richard (Man’s Mortality), 7

Overwinchenden, Bucks, 334

Ovid, 47, 62

Owen, John, 11, 19, 31

Oxford (and nearby Oakley), 15–20, 32–8, 47–59, 66–7, 73–7, 105, 159–71, 173, 175–80, 191–3

Oxford, friends in, 24–30;

security of, 35–8, 172, 257;

sophistication of, 23–4;

study of medicine and natural philosophy in, 34–5, 58

Papillon, Thomas, 217

Paracelsus, 47, 59, 75–6, 86

Parents, duties of, 184

Paris, 120, 134–42, 149–52

Parkinson, James, 195, 214

Parry, John, 24, 27, 46, 73–4, 89

Parry, Elinor (“Scribelia”), 24–30, 36, 46–7, 66, 73–5, 78, 89–90, 272–3

Parliament, 88, 113–14, 154, 159, 162, 164, 166, 304–5, 335–44, 347–8, 355–62, 411, 424;

Convention, 262–4, 266–7;

Oxford, 60, 169–71, 174

Parson’s Green, 284, 285, 287, 288, 308, 326

Passebon, Mr., 306–7

Patrick, John, 428

Pawling, Robert, 193, 195, 288, 300, 307, 309, 316–18, 335, 348–50, 359–60, 426, 439

Peccais, 125

Pembroke, Earl of, 126, 141, 179, 200, 209–17, 229–30, 237, 251–3, 256, 260, 276–8, 290, 296–7, 316, 423, 428

Penn, Willliam, 251–2, 258–60

Pensford, Somerset, 5, 7–8, 23, 66, 158

Pepys, Samuel, 80, 130, 136, 146, 331–2

Perception, 323–5, 446–7

Perogative, use of Royal, see Government, absolute and arbitrary.

Personal identity, 329–31, 405

Petty, Sir William, 165

Picard, Abbé Jean, 149, 156–8

Pistols, 99, 178

Pitt, Robert, 429, 430, 451

Poix, 120

Poole, 180

Popham, Alexander, 6, 9–10, 14–15, 21, 44

Plots, Popish, 153–5, 162, 166, 168, 170, 172, 178–9;

Protestant, 162, 172–4, 178–80, 190, 192, 216–21;

Rye House, 190, 191

Plotters, in exile, and invasions, 207–19, 240, 261–3; see also Argyll, Earl of; Monmouth, Duke of; William of Orange.

Popple, William, 274, 318–19, 326, 363, 366, 370, 417

Prideaux, Humphrey, 116, 119, 173, 177, 180, 192, 193, 209, 211, 213

Procopius (History of the Wars of the Emperor Justian), 7

Proast, Jonas (The Argument of the “Letter concerning Toleration” briefly considered and answered; A second letter to the author of the Three letters for Toleration; A Third Letter Concerning Toleration), 285–8, 308–12, 451, 454–5

Pufendorf, Samuel (Elementa Jurisprudentia Universalis), 38

Purton, 195

Quakers, 21, 40, 42, 85, 239, 418

Quina, Abraham, 198

Quintilian, 17

Reading, 178

Reason, things above, 371–4, 389–90, 408–9

Recreation, 131–2

Reid, Thomas, 331

Reinburg, Mr., 197

Religion, the essence of, 51

Religious dissent, 40, 84–5, 110

Religious freedom, see Toleration.

Religious persecution, unworkability of, 86

Respiration, purpose of, 58–9, 68–9, 86–7, 165

Revelation, 39, 51, 126, 247–8, 339–41, 349, 392, 408–9, 434–6

Revolution, 189–90, 275–6

Rhône valley, 124, 134

Rich, Jeremiah, 57

Richelieu, 145

Richer, Jean, 156

Richmond, Madame de, 143

Robinson, Mr., 141

Rochefort, 146

Römer, Olaf, 149, 152, 155–7

Rotterdam, 180, 195, 197, 217, 239–40, 255–63, 310

Royal College of Physicians, 34, 266, 309, 429

Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge, 109–10, 113, 147, 156, 375–6, 426, 445

Rumney, Edmond, 428

Russell, Lord, 192, 194

Rutland, Earl of, 91

Rye House, see Plots.

St. Lawrence river, 174

St. Paul, 42, 50, 169, 312;

epistles, 337, 353, 433, 437–8, 442, 451–3

Salisbury, 70, 78, 92, 105, 160, 163, 171, 181, 194, 195

Salisbury, Earl of, 162

Salvation, 338

Sanderson, Robert, 47, 58–9

Sandys, Mrs., 141

Saône, 123, 134

Saumur, 144, 145, 163

Savernake, Wiltshire, 297

Schard, Dr., 64, 66

Scobell, Francis, 347–8, 356

Scriblerius, 47

Scudéry, Madeleine de (Le Grand Cyrus), 24, 175

Seminal principles, 75–7

Sennert, Daniel, 31

Sergeant, John, 388

Sète, 125

Seutonius, 47

Seys, Anne, 444, 456–7

Seys, Richard, 444

Shacht, Lucas, 203

Shaftesbury, first Earl of, 70–3, 77–80, 87–8, 90–2, 97, 110, 112–15, 153–5, 159, 162–4, 169–74, 172–4, 176–80, 212–14, 254–5, 265;

his gout, 165;

his illness, 70–1, 86–8

Shaftesbury, second Earl of, 71, 79, 91–2, 180, 191

Shaftesbury, third Earl of (Characteristics of Men, Manner, Opinions, Times), 71, 87, 97, 117, 160, 161, 180, 204, 212, 254–5, 304, 326, 413, 426

Shaftesbury, Dorothy, Countess of, 91–2, 95, 97

Shaftesbury, Margaret, Countess of, 128, 173, 180, 181

Sharrock, Robert (De Officiis secundum Naturae Jus), 38

Shaw, William, 413

Sherlock, William (A Discourse concerning the Happiness of Good Men), 371, 453–4

Shilton, 161

Shute, John (The Rights of Protestant dissenters), 422–3, 443, 451

Sibelius, Caspar, Dr., 198, 202–3

Sidney, Algernon, 192, 195, 214, 434

Sidney, Philip, 175

Skelton, Bevil, 217, 219

Sladus, Matthew, 198, 216, 248

Sloane, Hans, 334, 375–6, 394, 419, 426, 445–6

Smiglecius, Martin, 47, 58

Smith, Captain, 14

Smith, John (Selected Discourses), 175, 176–7

Smith, Samuel, 47, 58

Smithsby, Anne, 197, 288

Smithsby, Rabsy, 197, 249, 255, 270, 288, 312, 322

Socinianism, 350–4, 371, 376–7, 383–4

Somers, Sir John, 335–6, 356, 357, 359, 362, 374–5, 400–1, 428

Somerset, 20, 23–32, 38–47, 67, 77, 105, 114, 160–1;

rusticity of, 23–4, 26, 111

Sorel, Charles, 92

Sorrel, 178

South, Robert, 11, 386, 398, 414, 453

Sovereign’s authority, origin of, 41

Sprat, Thomas, 109

Stahl, Peter, 52

Stanton Drew, 8, 23

Starkey, Mr., 217

Staunton Harold, Leics, 334

Stillingfleet, Edward (The unreasonableness of separation; A Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity; Answer; The Bishop of Worcester’s Answer to Mr Locke’second Letter), 166–9, 208, 370–4, 387–91, 402–9, 416

Stowey, 67

Strachey, John, 8, 30, 61–7, 77, 105, 111, 114, 175

Stratton, Peter, 414

Stratton, William, 160, 166, 191, 194, 305, 350

Strickland, William, 10

Stringer, Thomas (and Mrs. Jane), 118, 125, 130, 148, 155, 163, 169–70, 172, 178, 181, 222, 256–8, 273–4, 314–15

Stubbe, Henry (An Essay in Defence of the Good Old Cause), 31–2, 39

Study, 132–4

Substance, 372–3, 406–7

Sutton Court, 8, 67, 77, 106

Swammerdam, Jan, 203

Sydenham, Dr. Thomas, 80–1, 86, 87, 93, 96, 112, 116, 125, 134, 141, 246, 422, 429

Tarascon, 125

Tatam, John, 428

Tenison, Thomas, 399

Terence, 433

Test Act, 114, 251, 276

Thames, river, 119, 152, 174, 284, 301, 312, 401

Thanet House, 153–91

Thinking matter, 392, 407–8, 412, 427, 441, 446–7; see also Immateriality of the soul.

Thomas, David Dr. (“Adrian”, “Dr Taffy”), 66, 70, 73, 77, 78, 92, 98, 105, 158, 160, 163, 164, 171, 179, 181, 194, 238, 255–60, 264, 333, 423

Thomas, Honor (née Greenhill) (“Parthenice”), 92

Thomas, William, 161

Thornhill, Henry, 159

Thouars, 145

Thucydides, 13

Tillart, 120

Tillotson, John, 312, 319, 322, 433

Tilly, Samuel, 19, 24, 45–6, 78

Toinard, Nicholas (Harmonia), 139–40, 142, 149–52, 156–9, 161, 163–5, 171, 174, 200–1, 349, 419

Toland, John (Christianity not Mysterious), 372–3, 389–90

Toleration, 31–2, 39–43, 82, 91, 231, 269–70, 285–8, 310–12

Tompion, Thomas, 303, 315

Toulon, 125

Toulouse, 134, 146

Towerson, Gabriel, 24, 28, 32, 38, 44, 46, 53, 78

Transmutation, 305, 309

Transubstantiation, 83, 126–7, 233, 270, 418

Treaty of Dover, 113–14, 153

Trinity, 50, 83, 235, 350–4, 370–4, 383–4, 389–91, 403, 405–6; see also Socinianism.

Trotter, Catherine, 431–2

Trumbell, Sir William, 355, 356, 362, 365

Tunbridge, 179, 422

Tyrrell, James (“Musidore”), 22, 92, 98, 160, 163, 166, 182, 192–3, 199–200, 207, 240, 251, 258–60, 279–81, 288–90, 301–2, 320, 326, 429, 436, 445, 447

Utrecht, 203, 207, 216–19, 230, 239

Uvedale, William, 24, 25, 32, 38, 78

Vane, Sir Walter, 60–1

van Helmont, Francis Mercure, 250, 260, 333

van Helmont, Jan Baptista (traité des fievres), 52, 76, 77, 180

Veen, Egbert, 198, 219–21, 223, 230, 236, 239, 282–3

Velde, Jacob van der, 197, 219, 220

Velthuysen, Lambert, 30

Verelst, Herman, 273

Vienne, river, 145

Virgil, 13

Voiture, Vincent, 174

Volatile salt, 69; see also Nitrous salt.

Volatilization, see Fermentation

Voltaire, 2

Vries, Gerard de, 422–3

Wade, Nathaniel, 218

Wallis, Dr. John, 170, 356

Walls, George, 119, 120, 124, 130, 160, 428

Walthamstow, 394

Ward, Sir Patience, 217

“Way of ideas”, see Knowledge, as perception of agreement between ideas.

Webfer, Dr. Johann, 202

West, Robert, 173, 192

Westrowe, Thomas, 37

Wharton, Thomas, 334

Wheelock, James, 148

Whitby, Daniel, 415–16, 433

Wieuwerd, 201, 202

William, Prince, of Orange, see William III,

William III, 2, 155, 261–4, 266–8, 275–6, 283–4, 296, 361–2, 374–5, 400–1, 421

Williamson, Joseph, 60

Willis, Thomas, 34, 52, 69

Wilm, Mr., 197

Wimborne St Giles, 98, 116, 163, 180–1, 195

Wood, Anthony, 52, 70, 155, 213, 272

Worcester, 171

Worsley, Benjamin, 114

Wren, Christopher, 356

Wrington, Somerset, 1, 5–6

Wycombe, 171

Wynne, John (An Abridgement of Mr Locke’s Essay concerning Humane Understanding), 345–6

Xenophon, 12, 13

Yonge, Sir Walter, 238, 251

Zabarella, 47

Zeno, 45


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