1661

Contents:

The preface to the reader for the First tract on government (unknown)

Essay on infallibility (unknown)

“Orozes King of Albania” [before 1664; perhaps ca. 1661-2]

The Preface to the Reader for the First tract on government   [1661?]

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke c. 28, ff. 1, 2, 2b.

Description:   A draft of “The Preface to the Reader” written by Locke for the First Tract on Government (1660). It contains topical references dating from 1661.

The manuscript consists of three leaves, ca. 205 × 16 mm; the first a sheet folded once, the second a loose sheet; the pages are numbered 1-6 by Locke.

Publications:

1. Scritti editi e inediti sulla tolleranza / John Locke ; a cura di Carlo Augusto Viano. – Torino : Taylor, 1961. – pages 14-19. [Locke #949] – Also includes an Italian translation (pages 152-157)
2. Two tracts on government / John Locke ; edited … by Philip Abrams. – Cambridge : University Press, 1967. – pages 117-123. [Locke #950]
3. Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – pages 3-10. [Locke #867+]
4. Political writings / John Locke ; edited and with an introduction by David Wootton. – London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1993. – pages 146-151. [Locke #867+]
5. [extracts:] The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – pages 7-8.

Discussions:   See entry for the First tract on government (1660)

Essay on infallibility   (1661)

Location:   Public Record Office, London, PRO 30/24/47/33

Description:   A Latin disputation headed “An necesse sit dari in Ecclesia infallibilem SSae Scripturae interpretem? Negatur” [Is it necessary that an infallible interpreter of holy scripture be granded in the church? No]. The manuscript, in Locke’s hand, consists of three sheets of paper folded to form six leaves; the text appears only on the recto pages. The verso of the final leaf is endorsed “Infallibilitas Scripturae interpres non necessarius 61” [Infallible interpreters of Scripture not necessary]. The date may be interpreted as 1661 or 1662 before March 25.

Three leaves, each folded twice, forming 12 pages. 197 × 151 mm; the final leaf is 187 × 146 mm. The text is written on the rectos only.

Publications:

1. [Extract (translated):] The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – volume 1:161-162.
2. “John Locke’s essay on infallibility : introduction, text, and translation” / John C. Biddle. // IN: Journal of church and state. – 19 (1977):301-327. – Text on p. 316-327, with an English translation on facing pages.
3. [English translation:] Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – pages 204-209. [Locke #867+] – Biddle’s translation.
4. [English translation:] Writings on religion / John Locke ; edited by Victor Nuovo. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2002. – pages 69-72 [Locke 867+]. – A new English translation by Nuovo.
5. [English translation:] A letter concerning toleration and other writings / John Locke ; edited and with an introduction by Mark Goldie. – Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, ©2010. – pages 141-145 [Locke #67B]. Biddle’s translation.
6. [Italian translation:] “È necessario che ci sia, nella Chiesa, un infallibile interprete della Sacra Scrittura? No” / John Locke ; traduzione italiana di Raffaele Russo. // IN: Archivio di storia della cultura. – 25 (2012):471-478.

Discussions:   Biddle, publiction #2; Nuovo, publication #4, page 69; Goldie, publication #5, pages xxxiv-xxxv.

“Orozes King of Albania”   [before 1664; perhaps ca. 1661-62]

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke e. 6, ff. 68^v-64^v rev..

Description:   Drammatis personae and plot-scenario for a dramatic romance, in Locke’s hand and with corrections and alterations that suggest that he was the author. From its position in the notebook, it must have been written between 1661 (the earliest date for the Latin tract on government which precedes it) and 1664 (the latest date for the draft essays on natural law which follows it). The characters in the play derive from French romances which Locke and his friends were reading in the early 1660s.

Publications:

1. “ ‘Orozes, King of Albania’ : an unpublished plot for a stage romance, by John Locke” / by David McInnis. // IN: Review of English studies. – 65 (2014):268-272. – Includes reproductions of ff. 68^v rev. and 67^v rev..
2. Literary and historical writings / John Locke ; edited by J. R. Milton. – Oxford : Oxford Univerity Press, 2019. – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke). – Pages 205-207.

Discussions:   McInnis, publication #1 above; Milton, publication #2 above, pages 13-26, 146.