Who was Anne Locke? Well, she's British, so you might be inclined to think somehow we're talking about somebody related or connected to the philosopher John Locke, but we're not.

This is a 16th century figure, very crucial to the British Reformation,

and my hunches, you might not have even heard of her before. Well, she was born in 1535 and she died in 1590. She

spanned very crucial decades of the British or the English Reformation. She was the daughter of Stephen and

Margaret Vaughn. Her dad was a successful merchant and agent trader involved in commerce.

He was a very theologically astute and engaged man,

a very theologically educated layman.

In fact, under Henry VIII,th, while Henry the 8th was still a Catholic, Anne's father, Stephen

Vaughn, was accused of being a heretic.

And in 1534, with the act active supremacy, the tide turned, and he and his family did very well

under those final years of Henry and especially under Edward the 6th. Well back to Anne in 1549 she

married Henry Lock and became Anne Lock. Henry had inherited a number of shops and homes and also quite a bit of land.

And this was under the reign of Edward the 6th.

Then for the next four years, the Locke family prospered and were very involved in those reforms

happening under Edward the 6th.

In 1553, for a few months, John Knox Knox the Scottish reformer actually lived in the Lock

household and then Edward the six died Mary came to the throne, this is bloody Mary, and the tides turned once again in England.

Knox, of course, ended up in Geneva, and he kept corresponding with the locks, trying to get them to come to Geneva and in 1557

Anne and her children it indeed go to Geneva.

Sadly, four days after they arrived, her infant daughter died. In 1559, when Elizabeth

comes to the

so-called Geneva exiles, these British reformed folks exiled to Geneva. The Geneva

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