Apeil 28. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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John Locke, the fourth in order, was of Bel- 

 luton, in Stanton Drew, co. Somerset, and bap- 

 tized August 1, 1595, at East Brent, of which 

 parish he was churchwarden in 1630. During the 

 civil wars he attained to the rank of a captain in 

 the parliamentary army, and was killed at Bristol 

 in 1645. He married, July 15, 1630, at Wrington, 

 CO. Somerset, Agnes, the daughter of Edmund 

 Kenn the Elder, of Wrington, and of Hutton, in 

 the same county. Agnes's brother, Edmund 

 Kenn the Younger, married her husband's sister, 

 Frances Locke ; and Agnes's sister, Elizabeth 

 Kenn, married her husband's elder brother, 

 Jeremy Locke, of Wrington. 



John Locke and Agnes Kenn were the parents 

 of The Philosopher, born and baptized at Wring- 

 ton, August 29, 1632 ; died unmarried, Saturday, 

 October 28, 1704; buried at Otes, in High Laver, 

 CO. Essex; will dated Sept. 15, 1704. Peter 

 Locke died young. 



Peter, the fifth in order of the sons of Chris- 

 topher Locke, married a lady whose christian 

 name was Anne, but it does not appear of what 

 family she was ; they had three sons, who died 

 s.p., and four daughters. Of these daughters 

 Anne and Elizabeth were the only survivors. 



Anne Locke married, about 1670, Jeremy King, 

 of Exeter ; from them is descended the Earl of 

 Lovelace. 



Elizabeth Locke became the second wife of 

 William Stratton, of Whitsun Court, near St. 

 James's Church, Bristol ; from them I am, ma- 

 ternally, descended. 



Sir Peter King, the chancellor, and Peter 

 Stratton, were the children of the two sisters, who 

 were, as I have shown, nieces of the philosopher. 

 In the possession of the Stratton family there is 

 a letter from the chancellor to his " cosin," Peter 

 Stratton, dated Nov. 4, 1704, in which he writes: 



" This is principally to acquaint you that Mr. 

 Locke died last Saturday; he made a will, and 

 made me executor, and by his will gave several 

 legacys, to the value of above four thousand five 



hundred pounds He (Mr. Locke) 



hath not made any disposition of his lands by his 

 will, but hath suffered them to descend according 

 to the course of the law to his heirs, who are you 

 and me ; so that one half of his lands do now be- 

 long to me, and the other half to you. . . ." 



On the back of the letter is written : 



" For Mr. Peter Stratton, 

 Ffrank, In Bristol. 



P. King." 

 From the above I think there can be no doubt 

 whatever that the legal representatives of the 

 " eminent man " are in the King and Stratton 

 families solely. 



H. C. C, sole surviving son of J. H. C. 

 and of Catherine Stratton. 



NEW WOEK BT IZAAK WALTON — " THE BEBOE 

 OF liOEENZO." 



(Vol. xi., p. 257.) 



The interesting account given by P. B. of Sir 

 John SkefBngton's translation of the Heroe of 

 Lorenzo must be peculiarly gratifying to the 

 lovers of Izaak Walton. There can be no doubt 

 that the " I. W." of the preface is good old Izaak, 

 whose quaint simplicity of style is uumistakeable. 

 Happening to possess a copy of this curious little 

 volume, I beg to forward a short passage from 

 it relative to the most striking incident in the 

 Merchant of Venice. The Spanish Jesuit, author 

 of the Heroe of Lorenzo, had evidently derived 

 his knowledge of the story of the Jew and the 

 pound of flesh, neither from the Italian novel of 

 the Pecorone, nor from Shakspeare's drama, but 

 from its original source, some Oriental legend : 



"The ordinary speeches of a king are refin'd and 

 crown'd subtilties : The great treasures of monarchs have 

 often perisht and come to nothing, but their sententious 

 wise speeches are kept in the cabinet and jewell-house of 

 Fame. 



" Some champions have gotten more by a wise parley 

 than by all the swords of their armed squadrons, victory 

 being for the most part an atchievement that waits upon 

 a refined spirit. 



" It was the touclistone, the trumpet of greatest honor 

 to that king of wise men and wisest of kings, in that 

 difference which was pleaded before him by the two 

 harlots concerning their children : So we see that subtilty 

 contributes as much to the reputation of justice. 



" He that is their sun of justice and sometimes assistant 

 at the tribunal of the Barbarians : The vivacity of that 

 great Turke enters into competition with that of Solomon : 

 A Jeiv pretended to cut an ounce of the flesh of a Christian 

 upon a penalty of usury ; he urged it to the prince, with 

 as much obstinacy as perfidiousness towards God. The 

 great judge comrnanded a pair of scales to be brought, 

 threatening the Jew with death if he cut either more or 

 less : And this was to give a sharp decision to a mali- 

 cious process, and to the world a miracle of subtilty." 



This extract will also give an idea of the style of 

 the translation, which is close and succinct, and 

 remarkably modern in expression. Allow me to 

 add, that if this little volume is rare, and is not 

 already in the British Museum, I shall be happy 

 to present my copy to that great national collec- 

 tion. R. Carruthers. 

 Inverness. 



CASES OF WALKINGHAM, PUNCALF, BUTLER, AND 

 HARWOOD. 



(Vol.x., p. 66.) 

 I cannot find any account of Walkingham or 

 Harwood in Divine Justice and Mercy exemplified, 

 London, 1746, pp. 164. The three principal cases 

 are those of " The Modern Spira," John Duncalf, 

 and John, Earl of Rochester. Duncalf's is re- 

 printed from the edition of 1678, which the editor 



