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Locke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household

In 1691 Locke settled at Oates, the Masham household in Essex, where he spent his last years writing and corresponding. The dated residence is not the 1684 exile and not a unique manor-court. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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In 1691 Locke settled at Oates, the Masham household in Essex, where he spent his last years writing and corresponding. The dated residence is not the 1684 exile and not a unique manor-court. John Locke’s documented role is: He took up residence at Oates with Damaris and Francis Masham. The household hosted; he wrote later books there; he did not own the manor as a unique seigneur. Oates is a 1690s English household. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.

Context

Francis Masham’s house, Damaris Cudworth Masham’s intellectual company, and visitors including Newton sit in the file. A guest-resident is not unique authorship of Masham’s Discourse. Later heritage plaques are not 1691. Named others on the file: Damaris Masham, Francis Masham, and visiting correspondents share the household. The public setting is the file around 1691-01-01. The instrument stays Locke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household. The setting of Locke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household is the public file around 1691-01-01. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Locke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household. Naming John Locke does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1691-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Why it matters

Complex because the house was the Mashams’. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated intellectual household gave a public working place for late books and correspondence. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    He took up residence at Oates with Damaris and Francis Masham. The household hosted; he wrote later books there; he did not own the manor as a unique seigneur.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLocke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 January 1691 · verified

    A dated intellectual household gave a public working place for late books and correspondence.

    • Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Weakens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — John LockeStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — John LockeEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica and SEP independently date the Oates residence from 1691. Official: Britannica — John Locke, Oates and Lady Masham (https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke, last years at Oates (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — John Locke, Oates and Lady Masham (https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke, last years at Oates (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Established: 1691 settlement at Oates. Established: a sourced public record of Locke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household under 1691-01-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Oates is a 1690s English household. Mixed effects of Locke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household are separate paths.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJohn Locke
  2. contributed toFactLocke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Locke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-oates-masham-1691

https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-oates-masham-1691

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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