Feb. 8. 1851.J 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Judgment in Women. He departed from him, 

 entrusted and sworn, as Abmhanis Head-servant* 

 that ruled over all that he had, and went into a I'ar- 

 Country (the North of England) to seek for his 

 Son a Wife whome he as successfully found. Of 

 Her, I and six more of us, Brothers & Sisters, 

 were born ; in whose Education Mr. Lock govern'd 

 according to his own Principles (since publishd 

 by him) and with such success that we all of us 

 came to full years, with strong & healthy Conjsti- 

 tutions : my own the worst ; tho' never faulty till 

 of late. I was his more peculiar Charge : being as 

 eldest son, taken by ray Grandfather, & bred under 

 his immediate Care : Mr. Lock having the absolute 

 Direction of my Education, and to whome next 

 my immediate Parents as I must own the greatest 

 Obligation, so I have ever preservd the highest 

 Gratitude & Duty. 



" I could wish that my Time and Health would 

 permit me to be longer in this Account of my Friend 

 and Foster-Father, Mr. Lock. If I add any thing 

 as you desire, concerning my Grandfather him- 

 self, it must have a second place: this being a 

 subject more selfish and in w'^'' I may justly sus- 

 pect my self of Partiality : of w'^'^I would willingly 

 be free : and think I truly am so in this I now send 

 you. But I fear least this (such as it is) should 

 come too late, and therefore hasten to conclude 

 with repeated Assurances of my being your Oblig'd 

 Friend and humble Servant 



" Shaftesbury. 



" P. S. If after what I have said I dare venture a 

 Word to you as to my Grandfathei-'s Apology for 

 the one and only thing I repine at in his whole 

 Life (I mean the unhappy Words you mention 

 delenda est Carthago), It must be this: That the 

 Publick would not insist on this as so ill, and in- 

 juriouse ; if they considerd the English Constitu- 

 tion and manner of those times in w'^'^ the Prince 

 more lofty in Prerogative and at greater distance 

 from his People than now of days, used but a few 

 Words to his Parlemeut ; and committed the rest 

 to his Keepers or Chancellor, to speak his sence for 

 him (as he expressd it in y*^ conclusion of his own 

 speech) upon w"^"" my Grandfather, the then Chan- 

 cellor, and in his Chancellor's Placef, spoke of 



• " Gen. c. 24." ( hi a marginal note. ) 



•j- " The Speech was an Act of Councill examhid 

 beforehand in the Cabinet. 



" Mr. Lock saw the first Coppy of it, w'^'' was very 

 difl'ercnt ; and after it was alter'd in the Cabinet, my 

 Grandfather coinplaiii'd to ?Jr. Lock and a llelation 

 of his whome Mr. Lock introducd into y' family. 



" The same Person has left me a written account of 

 that affaire ; and so great was my Grandfather's Con- 

 cern and Trouljle, that He who of all Men was esteemd 

 y* most ready in si)eaking was forcd to desire Mr. 

 Lock to stand at his KIbow with the written Coppy to 

 prompt him in Case of failure in his Repetition." 

 (/« a marginal note.') 



King's sence, as the King's mouth ; in y° same 

 manner as the Speaker of the House of Peers or 

 Commons, speaks the House's sence, as the House s 

 moidh (for so he is esteemd and calld) whatsoever 

 may be his own private sence ; or tho' he may have 

 deliver'd his own Opinion far contrary. 



" Such was my Grandfather's Call : who was far 

 from delivering his Vote or Opinion in this man- 

 ner, either as a Councillor or Peer, or in his Place 

 in Parlement : where he carryed on a direct oppo- 

 site Interest : he being allready in open Enmity 

 with the Duke of York and his Party that carryed 

 on that Warr, in so much that he was at that very 

 time suspected of holding a Correspondence with 

 Holland in favour of the Commonwealth- Party in 

 England. However it be, it is no small Comfort to 

 me that that wise Commonwealth of Holland, the 

 Parent and Nursing-lMother of Liberty, thought 

 him worthy of their Protection when he was a 

 sufferer for the common Cause of Religion and 

 Liberty : and he must ever remain a noble Instance 

 of the Generosity of that State, and of that potent 

 Head of it, y" City of Amsterdam ; where yourself 

 and other Great Men have met with a Reception 

 y' will redound to their Honour. 



" jNIy Grandfather's turning short upon the Court 

 (as * Sir William Temple expresses it) had only 

 this plain reason for it; that he discovtrd the 

 King to be a Papist, through that disguise of an 

 Esprit fort, w""** was a character his Vices and 

 over fondness of Witt made him affect and act very 

 naturally. Whatever Complyances my Grand- 

 father, as a States-man, might make before this 

 discovery, to gain the King from his Brother and 

 y^ French Party, he broke off all, when by the 

 Duke of Buckingham's means, he had gaind this 

 secret. For my Grandfather's Aversion and irre- 

 concileable Hatred to Popery, was (as Phanati- 

 cisme) confessd by his greatest Enemyes to be his 

 Master-Passion. Nor was it ever said that the 

 King left him: but He the King, for nothing was 

 omitted afterwards by that Prince to regain him ; 

 nor nothing to destroy him, when that was found 

 impossible 



" But I must end : least I fail this Post." 



The superscription is : "A Monsieur 

 Monsieur Le Clerc 



sur le Keiser Gracht 

 pres de I'Eglise Arminienne 



a Amsterdam." 



* " It is my Grandfathers Misfortune to have S' 

 Will" Temple, a valewable Author, very unfavourable 

 to him : there having been a great Quarrel between 

 them on a slight occasion of my Grandfather's having 

 stopt his Gift of riate after his Embassy; a Custome 

 w':'' my Grandfather as Chancellor of y" Exchequer 

 thought very prejudicial." (/« a marginal note.) 



