# Locke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household Date: 1691 ## The fact In 1691 [Locke](/people/john-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. Do not twin this with the 1684 Dutch exile. Oates is a 1690s English household. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. 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. ## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/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. ## Evidence and sources 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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke, last years at Oates (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/; 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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke, last years at Oates (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official or archival record: Britannica — John Locke, Oates and Lady Masham (https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance Improving social-cohesion path: a documented intellectual household for late work. 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. ## What is established and what is not Established: 1691 settlement at Oates. Not established: that every later book was uniquely enabled by the house, or that Masham’s works are this Fact. Established: a sourced public record of Locke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household under 1691-01-01. 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. Do not twin this with the 1684 Dutch exile. Oates is a 1690s English household. Mixed effects of Locke settles at Oates in Essex in Damaris Masham’s household are separate paths. The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. ## People - John Locke: https://factrail.ai/people/john-locke ## Drivers - Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion ## Sources - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/ - https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-oates-masham-1691