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MEMORANDUM-BOOK of John Locke, Solicitor, father of the philosopher; 1623-1655. Among the contents are:-

1 Forms of licenses, bonds, warrants, recognisances and other legal instruments, taken from proceedings at general sessions in co. Somerset; 1629-1631, ff. 1, 35.

2."Nomina decimarum infra Hundreda de Chew, Chewton et Kainsham [Keynsham]," f. 29.

3. "The Lord Bishop of Armagh's [James Ussher] direction to the Howse of Parliament concerning the Liturgie and Episcopale Government, beeing therunto required by them in A° 1640," f. 31.

4. Assessments of subsidies, rates for troops, hospitals, etc., in co. Somerset, chiefly in the hundreds of Keynsham, Chew and Chewton; 1569-1649, ff. 36-58, 60, 84, 87-101, 119-123.

5. Proportion of shipping in England and Wales "to bee made readie against the first daie of March Anno Dom. 1635[6]," f. 58 b.

6. List of the hundreds and tithings of Somersetshire, f. 61 b.

7. Names of the justices and grand jury at the assizes at Bath; 24 July, 1637, f. 82 b.

8. "The Protestacon by order of Parliament," in defence of "true Reformed Protestant Religion," 5 May, 1641; with note by John Locke of his having made it in Publoe church, on 3 Apr. 1642, f. 86.

9. "To ring tunes on 5 bells," f. 102.

10. "The names of the Lords Lieutenants nominated by y^e House of Commons;" Feb. 1641[2], f. 103 b.

11 "The muster Roll of the Collonel Sir Rawfe Hopton, Knight, his Band of 200 foote Soldiers," in East Somerset; Bath, 21, 22 May, 1639, f. 105.

12. Men and Weapons to be provided by the clergy of the deaneries of Frome and Bedminster, f. 115 b.

13. "Particulars and values of Feers tenement in Belluton now in the possession of Henry Stickland given in by him;" 24 Dec. 1655, f. 124.

14. Definitions of Philosophy and of the "kindes of teachinge morall philosophie," f. 125.

15. "Rents due to my Landlord Co^ll Alexr Popham out of the 3 Tenements I hold in Publoe; " 1650, f. 127.

16. "De prouidentia Dei," "De preedestinatione," "Propositiones Catholicæ," etc. Lat. and Eng. ff. 129 b-135 b.

17. "Copia Actus locationis Menseæ Dominicee in Ecclesia S^r Gregorii Civitatis London." Lat. f. 136.

18. "Character of Drunkenness," f. 137.

19. Medical and other recipes with various names attached, including a recipe for a "weapon-salve," communicated by Alderman John Locke, of Bristol, in 1650, ff. 138, 140 b, 145 b.

20. Receipt of rent of Publoe from John Locke; 11 Dec. 1638. Signed by "William Heale." f. 145.

21. Dates of the births of John Locke, senior, and of his brothers and sisters, and of the deaths of his mother and of Arthur Lansdon and Anne, wife of John Lansdon; 1603-1624[5]. Lat. f. 157 b. Paper. Six leaves have been cut out at the beginning. Small Quarto.