Locke's medical knowledge was put to the test when Shaftesbury's liver infection became life-threatening.

It was in Shaftesbury's household, during 1671, that the meeting took place, described in the Epistle to the reader of the Essay, which was the genesis of what would later become the Essay.

Somewhere between 1400-1539 Edwardstow, Shaftesbury's oldest building, was built it still remains on Bimport today.

One of Shaftesbury's old Dorset rivals, Colonel Giles Strangways, led an attack on writs of election that Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury had issued to fill 36 vacant seats in the House of Commons ; Strangways argued that Shaftesbury was attempting to pack the Commons with his supporters and that only the Speaker of the House could issue writs to fill the vacant seats.

The Duke of York failed to take the Anglican sacrament at Easter 1673, further heightening Shaftesbury's concern that he was secretly a Catholic.

Shaftesbury's actions in the 1674 session further angered Charles II, so on 19 May 1674, Shaftesbury was expelled from the privy council, and subsequently sacked as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and ordered to leave London.

The Duke of York, grateful for Shaftesbury's assistance in the debate against Danby's bill, now attempted to reconcile Shaftesbury with the king, and Shaftesbury was admitted to kiss the king's hand on 13 June 1675.

Although Buckingham, not Shaftesbury, was behind Jenks ' speech, many suspected Shaftesbury's involvement ; after Jenks ' speech, Shaftesbury decided to take full advantage of the argument, arranging with his allies for a number of pamphlets arguing the case.

William Russell, Lord Russell ( 1639-1683 ) was one of Shaftesbury's closest political allies during the Exclusion Crisis ; a leader in the House of Commons, he introduced the Exclusion Bill on 11 May 1679.

Shaftesbury was much more eager for a rebellion than the other three, and the uprising was postponed several times, to Shaftesbury's chagrin.

According to the provisions of his will, Shaftesbury's body was shipped back to Dorset on 13 February 1683, and he was buried at Wimborne St Giles on 26 February 1683.

Shaftesbury's arrest on 2 July was attributed to his influence, but in general, during the period of Tory reaction, he seems to have urged a policy of conciliation and moderation to the king.

These evil tendencies in the popular presentation of Christianity undoubtedly begot in Shaftesbury's mind a certain amount of repugnance and contempt to some of the doctrines of Christianity itself ; and, cultivating, almost of set purpose, his sense of the ridiculous, he was too apt to assume towards such doctrines and their teachers a tone of raillery.

Shaftesbury's philosophical importance is due mainly to his ethical speculations, in which his motive was primarily the refutation of Hobbes ' egoistic doctrine.

Shaftesbury's philosophical activity was confined to ethics, religion, and aesthetics where he was one of the earliest writers to bring into prominence the concept of the sublime as an aesthetic quality.

The influence of Shaftesbury's writings was considerable both at home and abroad.

In 1769 a French translation of the whole of Shaftesbury's works, including the Letters, was published at Geneva.

Shaftesbury's writings reflect more of a regard for the awe of the infinity of space (" Space astonishes " referring to the Alps ), where the sublime was not an aesthetic quality in opposition to beauty, but a quality of a grander and higher importance than beauty.

The original Tatler was founded in 1709 by Richard Steele, who used the nom de plume " Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire ", the first such consistently adopted journalistic persona, which adapted to the first person, as it were, the 17th-century genre of " characters ", as first established in English by Sir Thomas Overbury and soon to be expanded by Lord Shaftesbury's Characteristics ( 1711 ).

Influenced by Shaftesbury and his followers, 18th-century readers, particularly in England, were swept up by the cult of Sensibility that grew up around Shaftesbury's concepts of sympathy and benevolence.

He now, in 1680, joined Shaftesbury's party and supported the Exclusion Bill, and on its rejection by the Lords carried a motion for an association to execute the scheme of expedients promoted by Halifax.

The wave of anti-Catholic sentiment set off by Oates would be at the centre of Shaftesbury's political program during the Exclusion Crisis.

It is said that William III showed his appreciation of Shaftesbury's services on this latter occasion by offering him a secretaryship of state, which, however, his worsening health compelled him to decline.

Shaftesbury's party, beginning to be known as the Whigs, involved the whole country in a mass movement, primarily by keeping alive the fears raised by the Popish Plot.

" Throughout the Exclusion Crisis, Shaftesbury's Whig ( British political faction ) | Whig allies in the Green Ribbon Club engaged in anti-Catholic propaganda, such as mock processions, the climax of which involved burning the pope in effigy.

Richard Ashcraft, following in Laslett's suggestion that the Two Treatises were written before the Revolution, objected that Shaftesbury's party did not advocate revolution during the Exclusion Crisis.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

The Whigs, under Lord Shaftesbury's leadership, wished to exclude the Duke of York ( who later became King James II ) from the throne due to his personal character, his Catholicism, his favouring of monarchical absolutism, his connections to France and the effects of the Popish Plot.

They then both returned to London, and associated with West, who learned from Walcott of Shaftesbury's own plan for a general rebellion.

Locke had been looking for a career and in 1667 moved into Shaftesbury's home at Exeter House in London, to serve as Lord Ashley's personal physician.

Following Shaftesbury's fall from favour in 1675, Locke spent some time travelling across France as tutor and medical attendant to Caleb Banks.

He returned to England in 1679 when Shaftesbury's political fortunes took a brief positive turn.

Around this time, most likely at Shaftesbury's prompting, Locke composed the bulk of the Two Treatises of Government.

Hogarth also rejected Lord Shaftesbury's then current ideal of the classical Greek male in favour of the living, breathing female.

But Lord Althorp an opponent of the measure introduced an amending Bill designed in some way to accommodate Shaftesbury's position.

He, however, refused to follow Shaftesbury in his extreme courses, declined participation in the latter's design to seize the Tower in 1682, and on Shaftesbury's consequent departure from England became the leader of Monmouth's faction, in which were now included Lord Russell, Algernon Sidney, and Lord Howard of Escrick.

Although Shaftesbury's recorded history dates from Anglo-Saxon times, it may have been the Celtic Caer Palladur.

Shaftesbury's main industry is tourism but there are other growing industries.

In the House of Commons, the Country Party gained strength with the adherence of talented MPs like William Russell, William Cavendish, Henry Powle, Thomas Littleton and John Birch and coordinated their actions in Commons closely with Shaftesbury's Lords.

Finally when Shaftesbury's clique begin considering bringing James of York on charges of high treason, Charles II quickly prorogued the session, preventing the session's act from being passed.

Fouke traces Toland's practices to Shaftesbury's conception of a comic or ' derisory ' mode of philosophising aimed at exposing pedantry, imposture, dogmatism, and folly.

Following Shaftesbury's fall from royal favour, Arlington attempted to effect a reconciliation, in November 1673 convincing the French ambassador to offer Shaftesbury a bribe in exchange for supporting the French party at court.

In spite of Shaftesbury's eloquence, his view remained the minority view in the parliament, forcing the king to prorogue parliament on 9 June 1675 in order to avoid the passage of the bill.