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Envoy to the Elector of Brandenburgh. In 
the following year he returned to Oxford, 
and was foon after introduced to Lord 
Afhley (afterwards Earl of Shaftfbury) who 
being made Chancellor, appointed him Se- 
cretary of Prefentations. The plan of his 
celebrated Effay was Iketched in 1670. In 
1675, Mr. Locke took the degree of Bache- 
lor of Phyfic, and the fame year went to 
Montpelier for the recover of his health, 
where he continued till the year 1679. In 
1682, his patron fled to Holland, to illude 
a profecution for high treafon, where he 
foon died. Mr. Locke attended him in his 
exile, and did not return to England till 
1688, the year of the revolution. On his 
arrival in England, he retired to the feat of 
Sir Francis Marfham, where he fpent moft 
of his time. In 1695, King William ap- 
pointed him a Commiflioner of Trade and 
Plantations, which office he refigned in 1700, 
and died in 1704, aged 73. 
Mr. Locke was, doubtlefs, a man of very 
ftrong intellects > very capable of intenfe 
thinking, and peculiarly happy in the ar- 
rangement of his ideas. His EJJay on Hu- 
man Under/landing is Logick diverted of its 
ancient technical formality. It is a book 
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