1669

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Memorandum book for 1669  

Location:   British Library, Add. MS. 46,470.

Description:   Small memorandum book in which Locke recorded his activities during 1669. Bound with Goldsmith 1669. An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1669. Being the first after bissextile or leap-year: and from the Creation, 5618. Wherein is contained many observations, and tables, pleasant, necessary and useful. With a description of the highways, marts, and fairs. The like not extant by any other. Compiled by John Goldsmith. London, printed by Tho. Ratcliffe and Tho. Daniel, for the Company of Stationers, 1669. 24o A-B12. (f. 3-26). The memoranda are on ff. 27-51; there is a blank leaf following f. 47 and 19 blank leaves following f. 48; f. 51 is the back paste-down. Pages numbered 1-36 by Locke (ff. 27-45; p. 35 used twice).

On the front pastedown is Locke’s pressmark “R.R.21” and impressions in red sealing wax of three engraved gems and of a signet with the arms of Locke. At some point, Locke turned the book and began at the back; ff. 50v-49v (pages numbered 1-3) contain a list of books and other notes, some in shorthand.

The bulk of the book consists of accounts, the earliest dated Nov. 2, 1668. Most crossed through to indicate that they had been transferred to another account book, Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 12, pp. 242-240 (rev.)

The book was bequeathed by Locke to Peter King and passed through him into the collection of the Earls of Lovelace. William King, the first Earl, give the book to Henry Lawes Long, who passed it to Charles Edward Long, the antiquary. It subsequently passed to Miss Catherine Beatrice Long, and to her great-nephew Major Philip John Randolph Currie, O.B.E., M.C., who presented it to the British Museum in August 1956.

Publications:   None

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Weather diary

See   description under 1666.

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Jamaica B   (24 February 1669)

Location:   Adversaria 1661, pages 180-214.

Description:   A letter from Benjamin Worsley to Buckingham, giving advice on the Jamaican sugar trade, dated 24 February 1669. There are three copies: (1) in the Shaftesbury papers, with corrections by Worsley [National Archives 30/24/49, ff. 37-48]; (b) in Locke’s “Adversaria 1661” commonplace book, with the marginal caption “Jamaica” and the heading “2d large letter about Jamaica”; and in BL, Add. MS. 11,410, pp. 623-74 (an 18th-century copy). In this listing, the letter is titled “Jamaica B” to distinguish it from the earlier letter written in the summer of 1668.

Publications:   None

Discussions:   Leng, Benjamin Worsley, 148, 206.

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Copy of an English translation of a letter from De Briolay de Beaupreau to Mr. Browne   April 1669

Location:   Public Record Office, London, PRO 30/24/47/2, ff. 40-41.

Description:   This manuscript is a copy of an English translation of a letter from De Briolay de Beaupreau to Mr. Browne, in response to Locke’s case report. It is endorsed by the copyist (f. 41v) “De Briolay de Beaupreau to Mr. Browne, April 1669” and by Locke (f. 40v) “My Lord Ashleys case. 69.” and Beaupre Apr. 69 Lord Ashleys case’ (f. 41v). “Mr. Browne” is possibly Edward Browne, son of Sir Thomas Browse, “who was a new candidate of the College of Physicians, had good connections with the French medical establishment and was in regular contact with England while traveling on the Continent from August 1668 to Christmas 1669” [Anstey & Principe, 396-397]

The manuscript consists of a single sheet, folded to form two leaves, 221 × 165 mm. The versos are blank except for the endorsements.

Publications:

  1. The correspondence of John Locke / edited by E. S. de Beer. – volume 1:318 [LL (231)]. – Only the first half of the letter is included.
  2. “John Locke and the case of Anthony Ashley Cooper” / Peter R. Anstey & Lawrence M. Principe. // IN: Early science and medicine. – 16 (2011):494-495.
  3. Writings on medicine and natural philosophy / John Locke ; edited by Peter Anstey and Lawrence Principe. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, in preparation. – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke)

Discussions:   Anstey & Principe, Publication #5 above, pages 400, 494.

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Drafts for The fundamental constitutions of Carolina   [1669 before July?]

Location:   John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Codex Eng 216.
typescript transcription in Bodleian Library, MS. Locke c. 39, f. 3.

Description:   A stray sheet of paper containing three draft sections for The fundamental consitutions of Carolina in Locke’s hand. The paper has the head title “Assembly” and is endorsed “Carolina A draught of some laws.” Milton argues that these drafts predate the 1669 draft [see next item].

The paper was discovered by Peter Laslett and was in his possession until his death in 2001; there is a pencil note at the bottom of page 1 (in Laslett’s hand?): “Found in a large folio notebook of Locke’s described by him in inside of cover as ‘13/29a Adversaria theologia 94’ at […] Forest House December 1951.” Adversaria Theologia 94 (H&L 25) is now MS. Locke, c. 43.

4o. 1 leaf (2 pages). 220 × 170 mm.

Publications:

  1. “John Locke and the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina” / J.R. Milton. // IN: Locke newsletter. – 21 (1990):122.

Discussions:   Milton, publication #1 above, p. 121.

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The fundamental constitutions of Carolina   (1669 July 21)

Location:   Public Record Office, London, PRO 30/24/47/3.

Description:   The earliest extant draft of The fundamental constitutions of Carolina, dated 21 July 1669. The manuscript is in a notebook bound in vellum, containing 74 leaves, 150 × 90 mm; pp. 1 (f. 2)-97 (f. 55); the rest bear no pagination; f. 74 is blank.

The text of the draft is written on the recto pages of ff. 2-73 (except for f. 56 which is blank) in an unknown hand; the first two paragraphs, the beginning of the third, and numerous additions and corrections are in Locke’s hand (there are other corrections in a third hand). Milton believes it likely that Locke’s additions and corrections were made after a fair copy of the document was sealed on 21 July 1669, but before a revised version was sealed on 1 March 1670.

The revised version was printed in 1670; there were further revisions printed in 1682 and 1698.

Publications:

    For printed editions, see the section on this work in the John Locke Bibliography; the following are publications of the manuscript.
  1. “Report on the Shaftesbury Papers” / W. Noel Sainsbury. // IN: Annual report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. – 33 (1872):258-269.
  2. “Fundamental constitutions of Carolina.” // IN: North Carolina charters and constitutions, 1578-1698 / Mattie Erma Edwards Parker, editor. – Raleigh, N.C. : Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission, 1963. – (The colonial records of North Carolina). – p. 132-185. [Locke #14]
  3. Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 161-181. [Locke #867+]

Discussions:   Parker, publication #2 above, p. 128-131; K.H.D. Haley, The first Earl of Shaftesbury (1968), p. 242-248; J. Farr, ‘So vile and miserable an estate’ ” (1986); C. McGuinness, “The Fundamental constitutions of Carolina as a tool for Lockean scholarship” (1989); W. Glausser, “Three approaches to Locke and the slave trade” (1990); J.R. Milton, “John Locke and the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina” (1990) [the best description of the manuscript and discussion of authorship]; J. Tully, “Rediscovering America” (1994); Goldie, publication #3 above, p. 160-161.

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Surinam   (after 2 July 1669)

Location:   Adversaria 1661, pp. 253-262.

Description:   A paper by Benjamin Worsley addressed to Secretary of State Arlington, in answer to Dutch Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt’s response to complaints regarding the colony of Surinam. De Witt’s response is dated 2 July 1669; Worsley’s response must have been written after 2 July. Copies of De Witt’s response and Worsley’s answer are entered in the Secretary of State’s entering book for Surinam [CO 278/2, ff. 7-19]. Locke copied Worsley’s answer in his “Adversaria 1661” commonplace book, with the marginal caption “Surinam” and the heading “Animadversions on my Lord de Wits paper presented to my Ld Arlington”. Locke’s interest was presumably related to his role with the Council of Trade and Plantations.

Publications:   None

Discussions:   Leng, Benjamin Worsley, 158-159, 206.

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De arte medica   (1669)

Location:   Public Record Office, London, PRO 30/24/47/2, ff. 47-56.

Description:   The manuscript is written in Locke’s hand. Fol. 47 bears the captions “De arte med{...} 1669” and “Ars. medica 1669”. It is constructed by folding five sheets of paper in two, forming double leaves; these are stacked (rather than being inserted inside each other). Fols. 47-48 is larger than the other sheets and the pages are blank except for the caption; it was probably used as a wrapper. Fols. 49-56 measure 190 × 155 mm or larger and are numbered (pp. 1-16) by Locke. The text is written on the recto pages, leaving the versos for insertions. The point for insertion in the text is not always indicated.

As was the case with the related paper “Anatomia” (1668), the authorship has been in dispute. Dewhurst considers that the work was “written in collaboration with Sydenham,” whereas Guy Meynell and Jonathan Walmsley argue that Locke was the author. Meynell suggests that the two papers were drafts for a preface to Sydenham’s “Medical observations” [Royal College of Physicians of London, MS. 572]. Anstey and Burrows (2009) provide definitive arguments for Locke’s authorship.

Publications:

  1. [modernized version:] The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – vol. 1:222-227.
  2. The physician’s art : an attempt to expand John Locke’s fragment “De arte medica” / by Alexander George Gibson. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1933. – p. 13-26. – Incomplete; does not include materials from the verso pages.
  3. Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), his life and original writings / Kenneth Dewhurst. – London : Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966. – p. 79-84. – The transcription is neither complete nor accurate.
  4. John Locke’s natural philosophy (1632-1671) / Jonathan Craig Walmsley. – Thesis (Ph.D.)–King’s College London, 1998. – leaves 291-300.
  5. “John Locke’s ‘Anatomia’ and ‘De arte medica’ : new transcriptions” / Craig Walmsley. – Drafted circa 1998-2005; posted March 25, 2014. – Revision of #4.
  6. [Polish translation]: “O sztuce medycznej” / John Locke ; przekład i opracowanie Adam Grzeliński. // IN: Studia z historii filozofii.. – 8:nr 2(2017):17-23.
  7. Writings on medicine and natural philosophy / John Locke ; edited by Peter Anstey and Lawrence Principe. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, in preparation. – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke)
  8. [Spanish translation]: “El ensayo Ars medica de John Locke, y la influencia de sus ideas médicas sobre la filosofía empirista” / Miguel Ángel Sánchez González. // IN: Asclepio. – 66 (2014):39-

Discussions:   General: Gibson (publication #2 above); Dewhurst (publication #3 above); Walmsley (publication #4 above); authorship: Guy Meynell, “Locke as author of Anatomia and De arte medica” (1994); Peter Anstey and John Burrows, “John Locke, Thomas Sydenham, and the authorship of two medical essays” (2009).

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Sydenham’s Tractatus de variolis   (1669)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 21, pp. 3-17.

Description:   A fair copy in Locke’s hand of a treatise on smallpox by Dr. Thomas Sydenham, with the title “Sagacissimi viri, et practici fælicissimi Dni Dris Thomæ Sydenham amici sui plurimum Colendi tractatus de Variolis, an[no] 1669,” and the running title “Variolæ.” The final paragraph (p. 17) is crossed through with a vertical line.

Publications:

  1. “Sydenham’s original treatise on smallpox with a preface, and dedication to the Earl of Shaftesbury, by John Locke” / by Kenneth Dewhurst. // IN: Medical history. – 3 (1959):290-300. – Includes a photographic reproduction of p. 3 of the manuscript (p. 279)
  2. Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), his life and original writings / Kenneth Dewhurst. – London : Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966. – p. 109-122.

Discussions:   Dewhurst, publications above.

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S Parker of Toleration   (late 1669 [or early 1670])

Location:   University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Preston Davie Collection, folder 323.

Description:   Notes in Locke’s hand, making notes on, and raising queries about, Samuel Parker’s Discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity, endorsed (vertically in the left margin of f. 2v) “S Parker of Toleration. The notes are closely related to the Qs on S.P.’s [Samuel Parker’s] discourse of toleration. Parker’s book is dated 1670, but was published late in 1669; Locke’s notes therefore date from late 1669 or early 1670.

The paper consists of two half sheets, now separated, but apparently once forming a bifolium, each leaf approximately 22.8 × 33.9 cm. The paper bears a watermark (f. 2) of a horn and baldrick in a coat of arms with a crown on top, followed, in vertical order, by a large ‘4’, and a combination of the letters ‘W’ and ‘R’; this watermark most closely resembling Heawood 2715. There is a countermark letter ‘H’ of f. 1.

Locke folded each half sheet vertically, forming two columns on each page. The left column is headed “Magistrate” and the right column “Church” on f. 1r-v. The left column is headed &“Magistrate” on f. 2r; this text continues in the right column and concludes in the left column of f. 2v (both without headings).

Description based on information from J. C. Walmsley.

Publications:

  1. “Locke on Samuel Parker’s Discourse of ecclesiastical polity: a new manuscript” / J. C. Walmsley and Felix Waldmann, in preparation.

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Qs on S.P.’s [Samuel Parker’s] discourse of toleration   (late 1669 [or early 1670])

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke c. 39, ff. 5-10.

Description:   Notes in Locke’s hand, on Samuel Parker’s Discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity. The queries are endorsed (f. 8v) “Qs on S.P.’s discourse of toleration 69.” Goldie gives it the title “On Samuel Parker”; Milton & Milton, “Notes on Samuel Parker’s Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie.

The manuscript consists of three sheets of paper, each folded once; each sheet is a different size, and the text is arranged differently: on ff. 5-6, 300 × 195 mm, the leaves are divided into two columns, with text in the left columns and f. 6 blank; on ff. 7-8, 230 × 170 mm, the notes occupy most of the page, with page references to Parker’s book in the left margin (f. 8 is blank); on ff. 9-10, 335 × 235 mm, the page (text appears on f. 9r only) is divided into two columns, with quotations from Parker on the left and Q[ueries] on the right.

Parker’s book is dated 1670, but was published late in 1669. Locke’s date may be old style and therefore his notes may date from Jan.-Mar. 1670.

Publications:

  1. [incomplete]: John Locke, a biography / by Maurice Cranston. – London ; New York : Longmans, Green, 1957. – p. 131-133.
  2. [ff. 7-9 only]: Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 211-215. [Locke #867+]. – Includes the relevant texts from Parker’s book.
  3. An essay concerning toleration and other writings on law and politics, 1667-1683 / John Locke ; edited with an introduction, critical apparatus, notes and transcription of ancillary manuscripts by J.R. Milton and Philip Milton. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2006. – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke). – p. 322-326.
  4. A letter concerning toleration and other writings / John Locke ; edited and with an introduction by Mark Goldie. – Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, ©2010. – pp. 145-152 [Locke #67B].

Discussions:   Goldie, publication #2, p. 211; Milton & Milton, Introduction to publication #3, pp. 57-70, 192-194; Goldie, publication #4, pp. xxxv-xxxvi.

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Marasmus Q   [ca. 1669]

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke d. 9, p. 112.

Description:   Queries in Locke’s hand, with the marginal caption “Marasmus Q”, and intialed by Locke. The note is undated, possibly written ca. 1669.

Publications:   None

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Bilis Q   [ca. 1669]

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke d. 9, p. 118.

Description:   Queries in Locke’s hand, with the marginal caption “Bilis Q”, and intialed by Locke. The note is undated, possibly written ca. 1669.

Publications:   None

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Dolor hystericus   [ca. 1669]

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke d. 9, p. 120.

Description:   A note in Locke’s hand, with the marginal caption “Dolor hystericus”, and intialed by Locke. The note is undated, but was probably written ca. 1669.

Publications:   None

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Opium   [ca. 1669]

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke d. 9, p. 122.

Description:   A note in Locke’s hand, with the marginal caption “Opium”, and intialed by Locke. The note is undated, possibly written ca. 1669.

Publications:   None

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Diarrhaea   [ca. 1669]

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke d. 9, p. 124.

Description:   A note in Locke’s hand, with the marginal caption “Diarrhaea”, and intialed by Locke. The note is undated, but was probably written ca. 1669.

Publications:   None

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