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    peYiet for the ! " recovery of bis health * There he communicated to Mr . Herbert , afterwards Earl of Pembroke ^ the design of his Essay . Frbm-Montpelier he removed to Paris , ' and became acquainted with the celebrated Protestant , lVL Juste ) , * at otiose

    house he first saw Mr . Gttenelon , a physician of Amsterdam , aiid M « Toignard 9 f whose names will often aiicur in the following correspondence . During this absence from Englandj , lie expressed ati inclination , had a vacancy occurred * to have become &resh&m Professor of Physic . J At Paris also he attended , as a physician , the Countess of Northumberland * who had married the " Lord Embassador

    Montague . " This appears from the following paper * in the British Museum , ( AyscoUgh , 4 & 90 , ) in the hand-Writing of Dr . Ward . DkaR Sir * I have sent you enclosed som& proofs taken from Mr * Locke ' s own letter ^ - of what was talked of yesterday at Dr . Mead's , that Mr , Locke did , on . some occasions , practise as a physician . You will please to communicate them to Dr ; Mead , with my humble service , and esteem me , Dear * Sir ,

    Your ihost obedient servant , john Ward . G . C TkuYsdmj , 15 th August , 1 ^ 45 . To Dr . Thomas Stuch 9 at Dr . Mead ' s , Ormond Street . December 4 > 1677 * Mr » Locke wrote to Dr . Mapletoft , from Paris , desiring his advice \ n relation to a disorder which had seized the Countess of Northumberland , Lady to the English Embassador ; who then committed herself to the care of Mr . Locke , having before tried the French physicians , in a like case without

    success . Dr . Mapletoft chose to consult their common friend , Dr . Sydenham , upon this occasion , whose opinion was soon dispatched to . Paris . But before it got thither the disorder was in a great measure removed by what Mr .

    * Brit . Biog-. VII . 7 . f * Or Thoynard , a native oi Orleans , born in 1629 . He was a great Medalist , also author of a Harmony of the Evange * . listSp in Greek and Latin , with notes oid Chronology and History , He died in 1706 . {• Ward ' s Cai'eshaiB Professors , p . 276 .

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    Locke had himself done in tlie mean tiniei ; : which proved to i > e . much the same as was prescribed by Dr . Sy « denhato * And , therefore * In a following letter ? written the same month ? by Mr . Locke to , Di % Mapletoft , he

    said ? in his pleasant manner * * upon reading out friend ' s letter , I was ready to cry out * the spirit of the prophets is upon the sons &fthe prophets ? I having * in what I have done here * . , not . only proceeded by the same method * ¦ but used the very same remedies he di-1

    rected as to the main . ' In 1679 , Lord Shaftesbury had again a prospect of court-favourP and prevailed upon Mr . Locke to return , but being soon displaced had no further opportunity of serving him . The Earl became , at length , so obnoxious to

    the government , that , for personal safety , he retired to Holland * in November * 1682 ? and died in . January following . Mr . Locke , who had followed him , would not venture a return to England * , where he had now become obnoxious to a profligate

    court , whose resentment he presently experienced , and in November 1684 , he was deprived , by royal mandate * of his student ' s place at Christ Church - On the accession of James , W- Penn would have procured for Btr « Locke

    a pardon , which he refused ^ being conscious of no crime- In May 1685 , the English Envoy at the Hague demanded him to be delivered up by the States General , upon a groundless suspiciondf his having been concerned in the Duke of Monmouth ' s

    rebellion , f Im this demand he was joined with eighty-three otlier persons . His situation was now perilous ^ especially ( if Father Orleans ' may be credited ) as the Prince of Orange was then so little inclined to oppose Popery and arbitrary power by force , that he

    had offered King James to command his army against the Duke . J Yet during his stay in Holland , Mr . Locke had formed some valuable connexions , who were now ready to assist hini and with no one does he appear to have become more intimate than with .

    Professor Limborch 9 the great nephew of Episcopius . He was a" native of ¦ w •• ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - ' " ¦ ' — ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ' *'' ¦ - ' «¦ - ( f'L- n . - « iV - ¦ ¦ ; : , ,. ¦ ¦ . , ; , ^ n ¦ ifTWrniBgn't * Brit . Bioff . VI . I& 9 . f Ibid . VII . 8—10 . j Ristoire des Uevoiutions H'An < rle - ierrej 1694 , III . 4 $ & ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/13/