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em, commencing: "I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's acre." is doubtless familiar to all your readers. It may interest some of them to know, that the "ancient Saxon phrase" has not yet become obsolete. I read the words "GOTTES ACKER," when at Basle last autumn, inscribed over the entrance to a modern cemetery, just outside the St. Paul's Gate of that city. W. SPARROW SIMPSON. * * * * * {493} Queries. JOHN LOCKE. I shall be much obliged if any gentleman who has the power of access to the registers of Wrington, Somerset, or who may otherwise take an interest in the descent of John Locke the philosopher, will kindly assist me to prove that the parents of that eminent man were as supposed to be in the accompanying pedigree. Edmund Keene of Wrington, = Mary, daughter of ... described as a widow, county Somerset. | October 15, 1631. (Court Roll.) _______________________|_________________________________ | | | : | | | | : ... = ... Morris. | | | : /|\ | | | : Edmund Keene of = Frances, John. Richard Agnes Keene, = John Locke Wrington. Yeoman.| daughter of (?). married : Will dated | ... Locke(?). at Wrington,: September 12, | Executrix July 15, : 1667 (in which | of her 1630. : he mentions his | husband's will. : "loving brother | John Locke the philosopher, Peter Locke." | baptized August 29, 1632. Who was he?) | _____________|_____________________ | | | | | Samuel John, Peter. Sarah. Mary, baptized at = John Darbie of Keene. baptized Both baptized Wrington, February 27, Shirbourne, : October 8, October 24, 1633, by her father's co. Dorset, : 1635. 1639. will had lands at Mercer. : : Wrington and Ley. (Deed, August :________: Will dat. August 16, 16, 1676.) | 1717. by which she Frances Keene.
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