his medicine till they should be reconciled Iohn Hope an Apothecarie's Apprentice The Coroner of London complained that a person was suspected to be poisoned by an Apothecarie's man with a Potion given by him He desired the Censors to examine the Case which was the following Elizabeth Vaughan of Puddle Wharf the Widow of Rowland Vaughan deceased complaineth that her late husband being not very well went to Mr. Elliot's the Apothecarie's house whom he found not within but found his man Iohn to whom the said Vaughan said There is no looking upon your Master under 2 s. 6 s. and the said Iohn answered he might have a Medicine better cheap but Vaughan said it must be a strong one for he had a strong body So the said Iohn gave him 2 Apples of Coloquintida directing him to boil them in white Wine putting thereto some Cinamon and Nutmeg which his wife accordingly did and gave it to her husband about 7 a Clock next morning which wrought not till 11 at night but then he grew extreme sick in his belly and cryed out he could not live 2 days the Medicine wrought both upward and downward upward he vomited a fatty matter and downward he voided a pottle of bloud About 4 in the afternoon Mrs. Vaughan went to Mr. Elliot's house crying for her husband but Mr. Elliot himself made strange thereof but understanding that he had taken the infusion of Coloquintida it is said that he said he would not have given it to the Devil but he directed her to boil some milk and to give it him presently But Iohn Mr. Elliot's Apprentice came home after her and caused her to fetch some red Rose leaves and 3 ounces of honey which he boiled in milk and put it up for a Clyster which he put up about 11 at night and Master Vaughan died about 7 the next morning Besides the Clyster he also gave him half an ounce of Syrup of Coral in some Carduus water Iohn Hope Apprentice to Mr. Elliot being then present acknowledged the giving the 2. Apples of Coloquintida in the manner aforesaid and he further confessed that he had sold 12 Apples of Coloquintida to divers women who used to boil them in white Wine since he hath dwelt with Mr. Elliot which is about 2 years and a half The Censors sending for the parties examined did particularly consider of the practice of Iohn Hope Apprentice to Mr. Elliot upon the body of the said Rowland Vaughan by giving him the decoction of 2 Apples of Coloquintida and adjudged the same to be evil practice in the highest degree and such as did transcend the Censure of our College and therefore they did remit it in all humility to the higher Courts of Justice Upon which this Testimony following was given to the said Elizabeth Vaughan WHereas this 9th of May 1635. Elizabeth Vaughan complained at the College that her late Husband Rowland Vaughan had taken the decoction of 2 Apples of Coloquintida by the direction of John Hope Apprentice to Michael Elliot Apothecary These are to certify that we the sworne Censors for this yeare namely Dr. Fludd Dr. Winston Dr. Hodson Dr. Spicer doe affirme that it was evil practice in the highest degree and transcending the Censure of our College and therefore we remit it in all humility to the higher Courts of Iustice This was the Act of the Censors the day and year above written Quod testor Guliel Clement Med. Dr. Regestar Collegii Medicorum London Mr. President desired that diligent search might be made after the sellers of purging Diet-Ales and such Comfit-makers as sold purging Confections Dr. Mayerne wrote a Letter to Mr. President complaining of Mr. Evans a Minister who had abused his name about his Antimonial Cup Upon which 4 Fellows of the College were sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury to acquaint his Grace therewith and with the import of Sir Theodore Mayern's Letter After this Evans was brought before the High Commission where the Archbishop asked him for his Orders which he had not then present He then caused him to be sworn to answer to such Articles as should be objected against him His Grace was highly displeased at the printing of his Book of which all that could be found were taken away The College Beadle was to help to find out more that they might be destroyed Sir Nathanael Kitch dyed of a Vomit made by this Antimonial Cup. The Lady Amye Blunt died by the same Medicine in Charter-house yard Another case of the same kind was reported by Dr. Harvey Mr. President admonished the Fellows that none of them should send their Bills to the discommuned Apothecaries who were the following viz. Mr. Edwards Mr. Cooke Mr. Weale Mr. Haughton Mr. Holland and Mr. Kendall In the 10th of this King's Reign Dr. Winterton Professour of Physick in Cambridge wrote the following Letter to Dr. Foxe President of the College concerning the University's giving Licences or Degrees in Physick to unworthy and unfit persons To the Right Worshipfull and my much honoured friend Dr. Foxe President of the Physicians College at his house in Carter lane give these My service and best respects remembred MAster President and my much honoured friend Whereas I am given to understand that you have heard that the last yeare I would not give way to two or three for the obtaining a Licence to practise in Physick nor to a Doctor of Leyden to be incorporated with us without giving publick testimony of his abilities and I further understand that your self and the whole College are well pleased therewith I have cause to rejoyce and further thought fit at this time to acquaint you with my real intentions which I shall eagerly prosecute if I may have countenance and assistance I have observed and grieved to see sometimes a Minister sometimes a Serving-man sometimes an Apothecary oftentimes Masters of Arts whereof some have afterwards assumed holy Orders admitted to a Licence to practise in Physick or to be incorporated to a Degree without giving any publique testimony of their learning and skill in the Profession And what hath followed hereupon The Minister hath neglected his own Calling and trespassed upon anothers not without endangering the Souls of the people of God and the losse of the Lives of many of the King's subjects The Serving-man and Apothecary upon a Licence obtained have been presently made Doctors by the breath of the people and Doctors indeed undervalued Masters of Arts after Licence obtained have taken as I said holy Orders that if one profession did faile them another might supply them And Incorporation being in an instant obtained by a little summe of money which by orderly proceeding I speake concerning the Doctor 's Degree would cost 12 years study in the University besides performance of exercises and much expence It is come to passe that in the University at this time I doe protest I doe not know any one that intends the study of Physick and practice thereof according to the
was with her no body but he did prescribe any thing unto her are greatly suspected if not to have procured yet to have much hasten'd her end Of this no man can better speak than three of your owne College Dr. Gifford Dr. Fox and Dr. Poe who came unto her when she left the other and took great pains with her Likewise at her death and some days before Mr. Abraham Allen the King's Surgeon did attend her My request is that you will heare what they will say and accordingly call the said Mr. Talbott afore you and if you doe find that either by presumption in him or unskilfulnesse for from any malice I do absolutely discharge him that noble Lady's end were procured or hastned you will take such course in censuring and punishing of him that the respect due unto a person of her estate departed as she is may be observed and that his example may be a warning to others to proceed with conscience and discretion when they take the charge of the life of any upon them I have lost a most beloved and kind Kinswoman in the flower of her age and therefore do greatly desire a true accompt of the reason of her death And so I commit you to the protection of the Almighty At Baynard's Castle the 2d of August 1612. Your very loving friend R. Lisle In the 12th year of King James his Reign some of the Members of the College being required to find Arms the College appointed two of their Fellows viz. Sir William Paddy and Dr. Lister to solicite their cause with the Recorder of London the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen in the behalf of the Fellows Candidates and Licentiates for immunity from the charge of service for Men or Armour Whereupon Sir William Paddy accompanied with Dr. Lister before Sir Tho. Middleton Knight then Lord Mayor and a full Court of Aldermen upon the fourth of October 1614. after a short preamble made that is to say that the Fellows of the College of Physicians of London became Suiters unto the Lord Mayor and that honourable Court that it would please them to take into their considerations the privileges granted unto the College by Acts of Parliament whereby they were as heretofore they have been exempted from the charge of service proceeded to the Reasons following First applying his speech to Sir Henry Montague Recorder for the City he desired him that he would indifferently peruse the words in the preamble of the Act of Parliament recited thus In consideration c. Herein may it please this honourable Court not onely all Articles Graunts and other things contained in the Letters Patents but also for enlargement of further Articles for the said College are to be interpreted available to the said College in as large and ample manner as may be taken thought and construed by the same 14 Hen. 8. Then may it please you to observe that in the 32d of H. 8. they and every of them of the said Body Corporate or Fellowship and their Successours shall at all time and times after the making of the said Act be discharged to keep any Watch or Ward in the said City of London or the suburbs of the same And here the said Sir William requested them to note the word any which in true weight of construction was to be extended as if that Clause had been in more words expressed Then he farther urged that for the Chirurgeons where in the first entrance of the Act it was thought expedient by the wisedom of the Land to provide for men expert in the Science of Physick and Chirurgery And therefore when it followeth that in this Act of Parliament the Chirurgeons by express word are exempt from the bearing of Armour it may truly inferr that Physicians are exempted as before from any Watch or Ward as also Physicians here recited in the preamble should receive a greater or at least the same immunity especially since Physicians are by their Science Chirurgeons without further examination and approbation to be had from the Bishop of London whereunto mere Chirurgeons are subject Then a grave and reverend Knight an Alderman of the Bench replyed That he took the words in the Act of Parliament for the Chirurgeons viz. bearing of Arms were to free their persons and not to exempt them from the charge of the service Whereunto Sir William Paddy answered under his favour and the Judgment of the Bench and Mr. Recorder that the difference between bearing and wearing of Armour was such that the very Etymon of the word bearing as in many other cases comprehended both and therefore should give immunity from both And therewithall Sir William Paddy added this Reason that by the wisedom of the Land it must needs be intended Physicians of the College should be exempted from this and other like services for that in the time of all outward War or domestick they or some of them do attend the Armies in person whereof he there exhibited a Catalogue of divers he had from the Register And now may it please you my Lord Mayor and this honourable Court we address our selves onely to you under whose government we are seated and with love we seek from you favourable construction for just relief which as in your worth you have always afforded to all so do we assure our selves you will dispense unto us who live best by your love and will ever be ready to do you service Then Mr. Recorder perusing every branch of the Statutes recited and the reasons urged and opening every part thereof at large did gravely and judicially conclude that the Acts of Parliament did surely intend to give to the College as much immunity as in any sort to the Chirurgeons Whereupon the Court desired to have a true Catalogue of the Fellows Candidates and Licentiates of the College in number then forty and one which Sir William Paddy and Dr. Lister from the Register did immediately deliver up unto them Which Catalogue the Court then upon this reason required lest others not of the College should delude them and so claim privilege Hereupon was ordered a dispensation for the College from bearing of Arms and immediately after a Precept was awarded by the Lord Mayor and Court to commit all other Physicians or Chirurgeons refusing to bear or find Arms who were not by the College allowed or Chirurgeons licensed according to form In the 13th the following Letter was sent to the President of the College concerning the death of the Lady Arabella To my very loving Friend the President of the College of Physicians in the City of London AFter my heartie commendations Whereas the Lady Aâ—â—bella is lately deceased in the Tower and that it is his Majestie 's pleasure according to former custome upon like occasions when persons of great quality do dye in that place her body should be viewed by persons of skill and trust and thereupon Certificate to be made of what disease she dyed as to their Judgment it
was fined by the Censors 40 s. and a Warrant was making out for her commitment to prison But being a miserable old woman and submissive the Warrant was stopp'd After this a fresh complaint was made against her that for pain in the Head and Stomach she gave drinks and had Linen in pawn She confessed her Diet-drink of Liquorish Senna and Coloquintida accounting 16 drachms for one ounce She was commanded by the Censors to restore the Linen that night to the College Beadle and ordered a small fine and prohibited all practice Thomas Greenwood Surgeon was accused by one William Adams that for the grief of a little skin rubb'd off with his saddle in riding he promised cure in 4 days but physick'd him a fortnight gave him diet-drinks purged and over heated him and now sued him for 20 l. for the cure Being asked what his disease was he replied Morbus Gallico The Censors order's his imprisonment and a mulct of 5 l. to be inflicted upon him Christopher Beane a prisoner 7 years for Debt in the King's Bench was charged for giving Physick to one Mr. Sparkes who as Beane said had a Rheum and sharp humour running from his Head to his Legs which came by an obstruction of the Liver with an ascent to the Head and thence down for which he fomented anointed and purged He was told of applying of clouts which he said wrought by natural means likewise using the Adamant to which he used no words but said it was both attractive and repulsant the one over draws the other draws back North draws and South drives back This he said he did to drive back the humours which it will disperse that is drive back He being poor and already a prisoner was fined but 40 s. order'd to be kept in prison by the Censors and prohibited all practice In the 15th year of this King's Reign the following Petition was presented to his Majesty for the obtaining a Patent for the cure of Ruptures To the King 's most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of Robert Pawlet and Ralphkewe MOst humbly shewing that your Majestie 's poore suppliants have by their long travail experience and practice in Physick and Chirurgery attained unto a rare secret for the curing of Ruptures in people of all ages without any paine or administration of Physick but onely with outward application and inward Cordials and being willing to participate the benefit thereof to the glory of God and comcomfort of your Majestie 's subjects soe diseased throughout your Highnesse's Dominions We doe most humbly intreat your Majestie 's gracious Letters Patents during our lives freely to practise the same by our selves or sufficient Deputies without the lett or hindrance of any whatsoever And that it may appeare that we have noe intent to abuse your Majestie 's Grant or wrong your Subjects we do freely offer that it shall be conteyned in your Majestie 's Letters Patents that no party so grieved shall pay for his cure untill he be perfectly cured and that all such as are poore and unable to pay shall be cured freely without paying any thing And we shall according to our bounden dutyes ever pray to God for your Majestie 's long and prosperous Reigne At the Court at Theobalds 25 Febr. 1617. His Majestie 's pleasure is that the President of the College of Physicians in London shall take consideration of this Petition and certifie his Majestie in what manner it is meet for his Highness to grant the Petitioners request Sidney Montague The College returned the following answer THe President and College of Physicians of London the 20th of this present March being assembled together to consider of the Petition referred unto them by his Majestie finding the effect thereof to be a Royall Patent to be granted for the Practising of a Secret in Ruptures and suspecting all secret practices which for the most part are but colours and shadowes for ignorance and falshood and because there are many sorts of Ruptures and of diverse causes not all curable by one Medicine They doe humbly pray his Majestie that the said petitioners may come to the said President and College and before them make manifest by reasons and experience the truth of the said remedyes and they will upon true knowlege had thereof informe his Majestie of the certainty and truth thereof leaving all to his Majestie 's most Royal consideration Henry Atkins President of the College of the Physicians of London Iohn Lambe a bold Empirick was complained of for demanding 40 or 50 l. for his Cures as lately of Mr. Pickering in Cheapside who died in his hands Mr. Evans gave in the following account against him and in these very words The persons to whom Lambe a notable Mountebank and Impostor gave Physick and got great sums of money thereby this last year are Mr. Springham a Mercer Mrs. Springham Mrs. Puckle Mrs. Cutts Mr. Mosse a Lawyer Mrs. Newport Mrs. Littleton Mr. Wilson the Keeper of Newgate A Gentle-woman whom he undertook to cure and took a great sum before-hand and did her no good He also cheated one Parry of 6 l. by shewing him delusions He cheated one Mr. Peny of 40 s. by shewing him tricks in a Crystal He cheated one Mrs. Littleton of 3 l. 10 s. by making her believe he shewed her what husband she should have He gave Physick to one Mrs. Palmer and undertook to cure her for 40 Marks whereof he had half in hand but the woman died and he cousened her He now gives Physick to one Mr. Tristram of whom he hath received 40 l. to cure him He gave Physick to the Countess of Exceter and by means of delusions in a Crystal insinuates himself into Ladies esteem and conceits On Saturday last he got 50 l. for undertaking a cure The Censors ordered Lambe to be summoned and Evans was required to prove the forementioned accusations against him After this Lambe procures the following Letter in his behalf from the Bishop of Durham To the Right Worshipfull my very loving friends the President and the rest of the College of Physicians of London WHereas the bearer Ioh. Lambe in some examinations of his taken by us hath professed that he maketh a poor living by practice in Physick and Chirurgery whereto by his long experience and practice he holdeth himself sufficient affirming that he hath done many and great cures in each kind His Majestie being herewith acquainted hath commanded me to send him to you that upon the conference with him you may both deliver you opinions of his fitnesse as also take such further course with him according to your opinions of his worth as appertaineth to the care and trust of the welfare of his Majestie 's Subjects inhabiting in and about the City of London by Law committed unto you So I commit you to God and rest Your very loving friend B. Duresme Durham house Dec. 1627. This Lambe was very famous throughout the Town being admired for his great skill in the
both by Physicians and Patients upon which account he procured the following Letter from the Earl of Exeter To my very loving friends the President and Censors of the College of Physicians Good Mr. President I Have had almost 20 years experience of the civil carriage honesty and sufficiency of my servant John Reeve Apothecary and am confident that in all affairs of his vocation he hath as skilfully carefully and legally demeaned himself as any of his Profession whatsoever Neverthelesse I understand that at sundry times since May last he hath been molested with Messengers from you and the Censors to make his appearance personally before you when by reason of his great sicknesse my self was deprived of his desired attendance in my service and well might you in such case have spared him also But I conceive that the false information of malitious persons against him and the Messengers fond hopes to enforce unnecessary fees from him was the cause of his molestation His service is of such consequence and esteeme with me that he is daily and hourly upon every notice to attend me and I may not want him being well assured of his honest and fair demeanour as well in the affairs of his profession as in all his actions And therefore I desire you to forbeare sending Messengers for him or interrupting him any further wherein you will oblige me who in no wise would see him suffer to acknowledge your respects towards him and rest always Your very loving friend J. Exeter To this Letter the President and Censors returned the following answer Right Honourable WE have in our dutifullest manner received your Honour's Letter written to us the President and Censors of this College in the behalf of John Reeve Apothecary your Honour's servant of whom we are very glad to heare how honest and usefull he hath been to your Honour for the desire we have that your Honour should be well served and should be as glad to have had the like testimony from others of his behaviour towards them wherein how little he hath answered the good opinion that your Honour hath of him your Honour may please to understand by this ensuing report Which is That upon the 19th of January 1637. one Sibyll Butler came before us in our College and declared how John Reeve Apothecary finding her husband inclined to a Consumption and for a moneth before and at that time being afflicted with a continuall scowring did let him bloud and gave him a sleeping pill every other night for 3 weeks together whereupon he dyed and thereupon the said Reeve being convented before us the 26th of the same moneth the accusation was verifyed by witnesses and made soe plaine that he was brought to confesse how he had let the said Butler bloud twice and given him certain pills and other things all of his own head and as he said out of his own Judgment alledging for his so doing that there were Physicians that would not give poore folks Counsell if they wanted money This practice found soe soul and contrary to Art by the Censors in a person that hath no calling or ability to give Physick was the cause of our sending for him which whether it be a molestation or no as he informes your Honour we remit to your Honour's Judgment now that your Honour is truely informed of the truth wherein we humbly desire your Honour to believe us without counterpoising his report with ours and the rather for that we forbeare to aggravate his fault with such circumstances as he knoweth we are able to bring against him if it were not for putting him out of your Honour's favour And for satisfying your Honour and to shew how absolute a power your Honour hath over us and every of us we doe remit to your Honour how farre the same shall be pleased to command us to proceed in the matter of the complaint Onely we are humble Suiters to your Honour to excuse us in the point of calling him before us upon the like occasions except it be at such times as we shall know he is in actual service with your Honour for that this being the due way granted us for the execution of our duty unlesse we shall leave it as a precedent for all other Offenders to decline us we may not remit it being bound by the trust that the State putteth upon us and charged by the continuall commandments of the Kings and Queens of the Realme and other admonitions of the Lords of his Majestie 's honourable Privy Council and lastly tyed by Oath at our entring into these places to look diligently to the abuses committed by bad practisers upon the lives of his Majestie 's Subjects and in which we as yet were never interrupted by any solicitation and soe with our heartiest prayers for your Honour 's long and prosperous estate we humbly take our leaves From our College-house the 28. Decemb. 1638. Bartholomew Vanderlash was accused for practising Physick which he denied but yet confessed that he had given healing draughts Upon which order was given for prosecuting him in the Court of Exchequer After this he was complained of by Dr. Crooke for giving purging pills to a woman in a Fever and Physick to another person for a year and half Dr. Spicer likewise exhibited several informations against him to the President and Censors As likewise one Mrs. Fitten to whom for a small pain and redness in her leg and arme he had given a powder in white Wine which purged her vehemently upward and downward above 25 times and 12 times the next day After which he gave her 4 fluxing pills of which she took onely 2 which caused a salivation for above 20 days for which she was forced to seek ease from Dr. Argent Vanderlash denied not this fact but avouched that he gave her the physick by directions from Dr. Read But because he confessed that he had no bill from the said Doctour the Censors took it for his own practice which they declared to be very bad and sent him to Newgate thereupon with a fine of 20 li. Russel Hutton Surgeon was complained of for giving pills of Turbith Mineral to one afflicted with a Dysury upon which he fell into pissing of bloud ulceration of the mouth and other ill symptomes He was punished 40 s. which if not discharged by the next Censors day he was to be committed to prison for mala praxis Du Pont was accused for prescribing Mercurial powder to several persons who had received great mischief by them One of them having lost 14 teeth Another by a Mercurial fumigation prescribed by him fell into swooning fits lost her teeth and was so dangerously ill that 2 Physicians were called in for her relief Du Pont being taken by the Beadle and brought before the President was released upon his brother's engagement for his appearance before the Censors but he broke his word his brother excusing him that he durst not come lest he should be imprisoned
same He accordingly brought the ensuing Letter My good friends I Understand by this bearer Tho Cooke that he is by your command in custody of a Messenger for some occasions best known to your selves upon which you have enjoyned him to repayre to me to make submission which accordingly he hath fully and fairely done with much sorrow and for my part I remit and forgive all offences to me and desire with your savours he may be freed and so wishing you all happinesse I rest Your loving friend Ka. Knyvett This 2d of March 1638. In the 5th year of this King's reign several Empiricks pretending their Protection from Court the President and Censors presented the following Petition against them to the Lord Chamberlain To the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery Lord Chamberlain to his Majesty The humble Petition of the President and Censors of the College of Physicians Sheweth THat whereas there are diverse Empiricks which contrary to Law and conscience presume to practise Physick in and about the City of London as one Butler a Glover Trigge a Lastmaker Buggs one of the Queen of Bohemia's Players sometimes an Apothecary One Hill one Blagden one Blank a Pewterer and one Sir Saunder Duncombe a Pensioner to his Majestie with diverse others against whom the College cannot take the benefit of their Charter and his Majestie 's Laws by reason that they shrowd themselves under the colour of being his Majestie 's servants The Petitioners humbly beseech your Lordship in tender regard of the health and safety of his Majestie 's subjects to give them leave to take the ordinary course of Law for the suppressing of the unlawfull practice of the aforesaid Empiricks and all others that shall assume the like boldnesse And they shall pray c. To this Petition the following answer was returned None of the persons complained of in this Petition nor any other are admitted to his Majestie 's service to intitle them to the practice of Physick against the Charter of the College and his Majestie 's Laws And therefore if the Petitioners conceive that they have cause of Suit having acquainted the partyes interested with my reference they may freely take the benefit of his Majestie 's Laws for their relief Pembroke and Montgomery Febr. 7. 1630. Humphrey Beven Chymist was complained of for giving a Vomit to one Royston's daughter who in the time of her vomiting fell into convulsions and died After this he was accused for giving a Medicine to Mrs. Lane on a knife's point upon the taking of which she voided clods of bloud upwards and next day her gums were made black thereby and so she fell to spitting and spawling till she died The President and Censors did not think this business fit for them to censure and therefore it was referred to the Courts of Justice Thomas Bowden Surgeon confessed that he directed severl Medicines as Purges Diet-drinks c. to a Patient for the Morbus Gallicus and thought it lawfull he being so taught by his Master The Censors examining the case could not discover it to be a Gonorrhoea impura but onely a strain gotten by a fall which caused the running of the reins The practice having been 2 or 3 years past the Censors inflicted no other punishment upon him but onely discommuned him untill he submitted to the College which was done by the consent of all the Fellows and signified by the Beadle to all their Members About the same time one Flud an Apothecary was likewise discommuned who afterwards submitted himself to the College and craved a release from their interdiction which was granted he paying the mulct of 20 s. Mr. Sweno Clark and Executour to one Mr. William Turner presented a Petition against Mr. Clapham an Apothecary for giving physick to the said Mr. Turner whose bills of charges he presented Mr. Clapham appeared to whom Mr. President declared the complaint made against him concerning his practising Physick upon one Mr. Turner and of his suing the Patient's Executours and required him to produce what Doctours bills he had in that case Mr. Clapham answered that he had Dr. Peter Moyden alias Muden his Bills even from September 1630. till the latter end of March following which Dr. Moyden was sometime his fellow-servant in Mr. Garret's house but afterwards fell to the study of Physick He confessed that the Doctour never was with Mr. Turner onely saw his urines at Mr. Clapham's shop and was instructed by him of the disease He saith farther that Mr. Turner much despised Physick and Physicians yet relied upon him and was content at the last that Dr. Bruart should be brought to him who came as he said too late Margaret Woodman dwelling in Alhallows in the Wall who kept Mr. Turner in his sickness saith that Mr. Clapham did usually look upon Mr. Turner's urines causing them often to be turned sometimes liking and sometimes disliking them and that all the time she was with him which was 10 weeks she knew of no other Doctour but Mr. Clapham and she saith farther that by his bathing and medicining him his Legs did not onely swell but that his Toes rotted and his Legs became extremely noisome Mr. William Kerbye in Maiden lane Merchant saith that Mr. Turner being taken with a giddiness fell and by his fall hurt his Hip for which he did advise him to use Counsel and he answered he used Mr. Clapham who was his old acquaintance but Mr. Kerbye wishing him to use better Counsel he said that Mr. Clapham told him he had the Counsel of a Doctour and further saith that then he could use his armes well and that even to his death almost he had his senses well and he saith that he told Mr. Turner that Mr. Clapham had received of him 50 li. to which he answered that he had had of him twice as much And he saith that Mr. Bruart coming to him said he was called too late Mr. Henry Shelberrye Scr. faith that Mr. Turner had his fall about the 7th of October last to whom Mr. Turner said he feared the swimming of his head of which he had a fit 20 years ago coming from Paul's and he asked Mr. Turner whose Counsel he used he said Mr. Clapham was his ancient Apothecary and one that knew his body well yet that he had moneys from him for a Doctour Mr. Slater saith that he was with Mr. Turner the day he dyed and that he heard Mr. Turner's Maid blame Mr. Clapham who she said had received of her Master in his sickness well near 100 li. Mr. Clapham saith that if he would have taken 5 li. or 6 li. for his Bill that then this complaint had not been made Mr. Clapham neglecting to attend the Censors upon due warning they gave Mr. Sweno the following Certificate upon mature deliberation WHereas Mr. William Sweno Executor to one Mr. William Turner deceased in April last hath complained to us the President and Censors of the College of Physicians in London of