Notes and Queries, Number 67, February 8, 1851 | Page 3

of Mr. Lock as to his station in Publick
affaires, under my Grandfather. Now as to his Service in private
affaires, and the Concerns of a Family, w^{ch} was, in every respect,
so happy in him, that he seem as a good Guardian Angel sent to bless
it.
"When Mr. Lock first came into the Family, my Father was a youth of

about fifteen or sixteen. Him my Grandfather entrusted wholly to Mr.
Lock for what remain'd of his Education. He was an only Child, and of
no firm Health: w^{ch} induc'd my G^d Father, in concern for his
Family to think of marrying him as soon as possible. He was too young
and unexperienc'd to chuse a Wife for himself: and my Grandfather too
much in Business to chuse one for him. The affair was nice, for tho' my
Grandfather requir'd not a great Fortune, he insisted on good Blood,
good Person and Constitution, and above all, good Education, and a
Character as remote as possible from that of Court- or Town-bred Lady.
All this was thrown upon Mr. Lock, who being allready so good Judge
of Men, my Grand Father doubted not of his equal {99} Judgment in
Women. He departed from him, entrusted and sworn, as Abraham's
Head-servant[3] that ruled over all that he had, and went into a
far-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 Constitutions: my
own the worst; tho' never faulty till of late. I was his more peculiar
Charge: being as eldest son, taken by my 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 preserved 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 himself, it must have a
second place: this being a subject more selfish and in w^{ch} I may
justly suspect my self of Partiality: of w^{ch} 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
Grandfather'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 injuriouse; if they considered the English Constitution and
manner of those times in w^{ch} the Prince more lofty in Prorogative
and at greater distance from his People than now of days, used but a
few Words to his Parlement; and committed the rest to his Keepers or
Chancellor, to speak his sence for him (as he expresses it in y^e
conclusion of his own speech) upon w^{ch} my Grandfather, the then
Chancellor, and in his Chancellor's Place[4], spoke of King's sence, as
the King's mouth; in y^e same manner as the Speaker of the House of
Peers or Commons, speaks the House's sence, as the House's mouth
(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 manner, either as a Councillor or Peer, or in his
Place in Parlement: where he carryed on a direct opposite 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-Mother 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^e City of Amsterdam; where
yourself and other Great Men have met with a