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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i^S. No 105., Jan. 2. '58. 



office he was appointed in 1705, when only twenty- 

 six years of age ; and Wogan subsequently speaks 

 of his residence in Windsor Forest. That Wogan 

 was " out in fifteen " is certain, and set forth in the 

 title-page of his Female Fortitude. Patten, indeed, 

 mentions him as — 



" Charles Wogan, an Irishman, behav'd very well at 

 Preston. Mr. Forster called him his Aid-de-Camp ; he 

 made his escape out of Newgate. He was a papist." 



In the beginning of 1718, the Chevalier, as 

 Wogan calls him, wrote to General Dillon to find 

 out a proper person to negotiate with Prince 

 James Sobiesky about a marriage with his daugh- 

 ter, and Wogan was the man selected. The his- 

 tory of this negotiation, the objections of the 

 emperor, and the arrest and confinement of the 

 princess at Inspruck, her escape through the ex- 

 ertions of Wogan, and flight into Italy, are told 

 with minuteness and interest in his Female For- 

 titude (] 722). By-the-bye both Nichols and Scott 

 say the princess was married by proxy in Poland, 

 and, therefore, before her adventures ; but Wo- 

 gan shows that it was at Bologna, and therefore 

 after her escape. In recognition of his gallant 

 service, Wogan was created a Roman Knight, an 

 honour which we are told had not been conferred 

 on a foreigner for many centuries ; and his di- 

 ploma of knighthood or citizenship is, I. believe, in 

 the British Museum. Finally, he appears to have 

 accepted military service in Spain, and there we 

 find him in 1732 when he opened his correspon- 

 dence with Swift. 



What I wish to draw especial attention to is 

 Wogan's residence in Windsor Forest, and his 

 intimacy with Pope. No wonder that Pope was 

 suspected and his " person in some danger," as he 

 states, in 1715-16, considering his intimacy with 

 such men as Wogan. Wogan thus writes to 

 Swift : — 



" Let not the English wits, and particularly my friend 

 Mr. Pope {whom I had the honour to bring up to London 

 from our retreat in the forest of Windsor, and dress a la 

 mode, and introduce at Will's Coffee House'), run down a 

 country as the seat of dulness to whose geniuses he owns 

 himself so much indebted. What encomiums does he not 

 lay out upon Roscommon and Walsh in the close of his 

 excellent Essay upon Criticism ? How gratefully does he 

 express his thanks to Dr. Swift, Sir Samuel Garth, Mr. 

 Congreve, and my poor friend and neighbour Dr. Pamell, 

 in the preface to his admirable translation of The Iliad, 

 in return for the many lights and lessons they adminis- 

 tered to him both in the opening and the prosecution of 

 that great undertaking ? Is it possible that these hei'oes of 

 wit and learning, whom he commemorates with so much 

 applause, and of whom he glories tn having been the 

 pupil, could have been of the birth of Ireland? while 

 , England could only furnish him with titled pageants and 

 names of quality fitter to swell and encourage the sub- 

 scription, than to polish or enrich the performance? 

 But granting they were Irishmen ; that, it seems, is no 

 manner of argument in favor of their country. Were not 

 all these lights and lessons given by them to Mr. Pope, 

 in the purer air of England? Was it not to that air 

 alone they owed the refinement and elevation of their 



geniuses ? Mr. Pope, though the best natured man living, tn 

 my knowledge, had laughed at them with great gaiety ,'had 

 they pretended to forward any notices or instructions to 

 him by letters written under their native fogs." 



" My spirit is up, and I must out with it after having 

 asked pardon of my friend 3Ir. Pope for having animad- 

 verted upon his jokes in the Duneiad with regard to Ire- 

 land." 



It is evident from these passages that Wogan 

 had resided for some time in Windsor Forest, in 

 the immediate neighbourhood of Binfield, and in 

 close intimacy with the Pope family ; yet there is 

 not, so far as I remember, a single reference to or 

 mention of him throughout Pope's works or cor- 

 respondence. Can any of your readers throw 

 any light on this — give us some account of Wo- 

 gan, and his whereabouts, from, say 1705 to 1715 ? 



w. w. s. 



LOCKE FAMILY. 



Zachary Locke., M.P. for Southwark, 43 Eli- 

 zabeth, 1600. Who was he ? 



In old Greenwich church there was a monument 

 to Dorothy, wife of Zachary Loke, daughter of 

 James Brampton, of Brampton, Norfolk, by Mau- 

 rice, daughter of Sir Edward Buleiu, itnt. Do- 

 rothy Loke died 1596. 



Humphrey Lock writes to Sir William Cecil 

 from Upnor, June 16, 1562, proposing to use the 

 stone of Rochester Castle to complete a block- 

 house at Upnor. 



' Michael Lock was one of the companions (?) of 

 Martin Frobisher on his voyage to Cathay, from 

 whence he returned in 1577 with a quantity of 

 ore, believed to contain gold. Lock was ap- 

 pointed treasurer for the proceeds of the ore 

 brought home. And he afterwards erected works 

 at Dartford for working and melting the ore. 

 What was his farther history ? 



Was there any, and if so what, family con- 

 nexion between Zachary Lock, or Loke, and 

 Humphrey and Michael Lock, or between any of 

 them? 



John Locke, the philosopher, born at Wrington, 

 Somersetshire, 1632. His father is said, in the 

 Memoirs of his celebrated son, to have been a 

 gentleman of some propert}', and originally bred 

 to the law. At the breaking out of the Civil War, 

 having declared for the Parliament, he received a 

 captain's commission in their service. What was 

 his name, and where did he come from ? * 



Captain Daniel Locke was a governor of St. 

 Thomas's Hospital, and one of the first governors 

 of Guy's Hospital, named in the will of the bene- 

 volent founder, and in the Act of Parliament, 

 A.D. 1724. is anything farther known of him ? 



[* Cf. "N. & Q." !»' S. ix. 493.; xi. 32G.; xii. 391.; 

 2n<rs. i. 141.; iii. 125. — Ed.] 



