THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE PRESENT TIME. A New Edition, RE-ARRANGED AND ENRICHED WITH SEVERAL ADDITIONAL LIVES, BY THE REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M.A. F.R.S. OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, LUDGATE STREET; AND FOR Lowe 12-7-45 LXIX. Sir George Rooke.. (1650-1709) 37 LXX. Sir John Holt..... (1642-1709) 48 LXXI. Gilbert Burnet. (1643-1715) 64 LXXII. John Flamsteed.... (1646—1719) 107 LXXIII. Joseph Addison.. (1672-1719) 114 Mortimer....... (1661-1724) 218 LXXVIII. Sir Isaac Newton.. (1642-1726) 245 LXXIX. Sir Richard Steele.. (1676-1729) 280 LXXX. Francis Atterbury.. (1662-1731) 306 LXXXI. Samuel Clarke. . . .. . (1675-1729) 344 LXXXII. Richard Bentley. (1662-1742) 365 THE BRITISH PLUTARCH. JOHN LOCKE.* [1632-1704.] JOHN LOCKE was born at Wrington, in Somersetshire, in 1632. During his infancy, his education was conducted with paternal affection, but at the same time with great strictness, by his father; who, having been bred to the law, was Steward or Court-Keeper to Colonel Alexander Popham, and upon the breaking out of the civil wars became a Captain in the parliamentary army. The first part of his learning he received at Westminster School, whence at nineteen he removed to Christ Church, Oxford. He became subsequently a Student of that college, and distinguished himself * AUTHORITIES. Biographia Britannica, General Biographical Dictionary, Le Clerc's Bibliothéque Choisie, and Towers' Vindication of the Political Principles of Mr. Locke. |