those he loved, dearer to him than his body. Lady Masham sat alone with him through the evening, and he was able to talk much with her; but especially he exhorted her "to look on this world only as a state of preparation for a better." "As for me," he said, "I have lived long enough, and I thank God I have enjoyed a happy life; but, after all, this life is nothing but vanity." After the family prayers had been offered up in his chamber, as had been arranged, he charged all present to read the holy scriptures attentively, and, by their light, to apply themselves sincerely to the practice of all their duties. "By this means," he said, "you will make yourselves more happy in this world, and secure for yourselves eternal happiness in the other." "I heartily thank God," he repeated, "for all his goodness and mercies to me, but above all for his redemption of me by Jesus Christ." It was nearly midnight before the little company dispersed. Lady Masham begged that she might watch beside him through the night, but he would not let her. He said he felt better, that perhaps he should sleep, and that, if there were any change, he should send for her.' He had no sleep that night. Next morning, the morning of the 28th of October, he said he should like to rise. They wrapped a shawl round him and carried him into his study. There, in his easy chair, he dozed during some hours, and then, rousing up, asked for a little table beer, and was so much revived by that that he resolved to be dressed. Lady Masham had been sitting beside him, seeking comfort in her heavy sorrow 1 Lady Masham's and Pierre Coste's letters, already cited: Le Clerc's 'Eloge and Additional MSS., no. 4311, p. 143; Esther Masham to Mrs. Smith, 17 Nov., 1704. These are also my authorities for the details in the next two paragraphs. by reading in the Psalms. He asked her to read aloud while he was being dressed. She did that, and it cheered him, and the reading went on till, at about three o'clock, he began to be restless. He found it necessary to change his seat. Presently he raised his hands to his eyes, and closed them, and all was over. "His death was like his life," said Lady Masham in one of the pathetic letters that she wrote in the ensuing weeks during which she walked about the house disconsolate, her mind wandering, and able only to think coherently upon the one subject that had filled it with such grief; "his death was like his life, truly pious, yet natural, easy and unaffected; nor can time, I think, ever produce a more eminent example of reason and religion than he was, living and dying." They buried him, as he had bidden, in a plain wooden coffin, without cloth or velvet, on the sunny side of the parish church of High Laver, and there, now and then, some stray pilgrim goes to visit the spot where was lodged all that could die of the great teacher and the good man, and to read upon his tomb the beautiful epitaph that he had penned for himself: "Stay, traveller: near this place lies JOHN LOCKE. If you ask what sort of man he was, the answer is that he was contented with his modest lot. Bred a scholar, he used his studies to devote himself to truth alone. This you may learn from his writings; which will show you anything else that is to be said about him more faithfully than the doubtful eulogies of an epitaph. His virtues, if he had any, were too slight for him to offer them to his own credit or as an example to you. Let his vices be buried with him. Of good life, you have an example, should you desire it, in the gospel; . 72 of vice, would there were none for you; of mortality, surely (and may you profit by it) you have one here and everywhere. That he was born on the 29th of August in the year of our Lord 1632, and that he died on the 28th of October in the year of our Lord 1704, this tablet, which itself will quickly perish, is a record." In his own Latin, with the dates supplied : Siste Viator, Hic juxta situs est JOHANNES LOCKE. Si Natum Anno Dom. 1632 Aug. 29o. Mortuum Anno Dom. 1704 Oct. 28°. Memorat haec tabula brevi et interitura. brevi et ipse VOL. II. 36 INDEX. Aigues Mortes, Locke at, i., 344. Albemarle, Duke of, i., 236. Alford, John, Locke's letter to, i., 133. Allestree, Dr. Richard, i., 210, 319. Allestree, William, i., 319; his letters to Alsford, in Kent, Locke at, i., 439. Amsterdam, Locke at, in 1683, ii., 5; in Angers, Locke at, i., 400. Appropriation clauses, origin of, 1665, i., Argyle, Earl of, i., 481. Arlington, Earl of, i., 95-98, 101, 272. Arnauld, Antoine, i., 294. Ashley, Lord and Lady; see Shaftesbury. Baber, Francis, i., 5. Bacon, Lord, i., 45, 62, 64, 69, 92. Bahamas, Locke's share in the coloniza- Bank of England, Locke's share in, ii., Banks, Sir John, i., 365, 367, 378; his Barrow, Isaac, i., 212, 214; Locke's friend- Basingstoke, Locke at, i., 438. Beavis, Mr. and Mrs., i., 259, 260, 433, Bellamont, Earl of, ii., 162. Belvoir Castle, Lincolnshire, Locke at, i., Bennet, Henry; see Arlington, Earl of. bury's family, and Locke's friend, i., 141. Berkeley, Bishop, ii., 278. Berkeley, Sir William, i., 236. Bernier, François, Locke's friendship with, Bexwells, in Essex, Locke at, i., 425, 429. Birch, Elizabeth, i., 423, 424, 432, 471, Blois, Locke at, i., 398. Blomer, Mrs., i., 258, 267, 269; Locke's Blomer, Thomas, at Westminster School Bolde, Samuel, ii., 408, 438 n.; his de- Bordeaux, Locke at, i., 366, 400–402. Bracken, Rachel, ii., 453. Brathwayte, William, ii., 352, 358. Bridgewater, Earl of, ii., 352. Briolay de Beaupreau, the Abbé de, Brisbane, John, Locke's friendship with, Buckingham, George, Duke of, Locke's 275. Burnet, Gilbert, bishop of Salisbury, i., Burnet, Thomas, ii., 61, 439. Burridge, Richard, ii., 274, 441, 467. Busby, Richard, Locke's schoolmaster at Butler, Samuel, Satire on the Royal Cabal, the, i., 272. 6 Calais, Locke at, in 1672, i., 268; in 1675, Calverley, Lady, ii., 511, 512. Charles the Second's "dispensation for Mr. Charleton, William, Locke's acquaintance Child, Sir Josiah, ii., 188, 190. Clarendon, Earl of, i., 96, 98, 101, 236, Clarke, Elizabeth, his daughter, Locke's Clericus; see Le Clerc, Jean. 563 Cleve, Locke's visit to, in 1665, i., 103— Cole, Thomas, Locke's tutor at Oxford, i., Colleton, Sir John, i., 236. Colleton, Sir Peter, i., 287; his corre Collier, Rebecca, Locke's visit and letter- Collins, Anthony, ii., 517; Locke's friend- 158. Conant, Dr. John, i., 78. Conventicle act of 1664, i., 99, 275; of Corporation act of 1661, i., 96. Coste, Pierre, Locke's relations with, ii., Courten, William; see Charleton. Covell, Dr. John, ii., 413 n.; Locke's re- Cudworth, Damaris; sec Masham, Lady. Daranda, Paul, ii., 205 n., 355. Deventer, Locke at, ii., 14. Dispensing bill of 1663, i., 96. Doleman, Mary, Locke's bequest to, ii., "Dor," Locke's letter to, i., 251, 252. Dover, secret and mock treaties of, i., Downing, Sir George, ii., 20. |