Chapter 39

1John Hassall chosen Warden.2Richd.Cooper chosen Warden.3John Dards chosen Warden.4Willm.Lingham chosen Warden.5Martin Browne chosen Warden.6John Conny chosen Warden.7Willm.Watkins chosen Warden.8Willm.Smith chosen Warden.9John Shott chosen Warden.10Wm.Parker chosen Warden.11Mr. Medley had been Master of the Barber-Surgeons from Election day, 1744, until the 24th June, 1745, and was Master of the Barbers from that date until Election day, 1745, when Mr. Negus was chosen.12Saml.Norton chosen Warden.13Willm.Evans chosen Warden.14Timothy Baylie chosen Warden.15James Scott chosen Warden.16Danl.Adams chosen Warden.17Thos.Thompson chosen Warden.18Thos.Herbert chosen Warden.19John Field chosen Warden.20Thomas Law chosen Warden.21James Clapp chosen Warden.22Edward Grose Smith chosen Warden.23Saml.Closs chosen Warden.24Joel Edwards chosen Warden.25Willm.Hare chosen Warden.26Willm.Dunsford White chosen Warden.27Francis Snelling chosen Warden.28Edwd.Stone chosen Warden.29A mistake for Anno xijo.30Sworn Masters of the Barbers, 10 Sept., 1388. 12th Ric. II. (Letter-Book H.235B.)31The day of the funeral.32Thirty masses sung at the expense of the common box.33i.e., honestly.34I am unable to complete this sentence.3518th Aug., 1387.36i.e., a guarantee for his honesty.37In this and some other cases I have adopted the able translations made by Mr. Riley in his “Memorials of London and London Life.”38The general name for country places in those days.39Wandsworth.40“Soul of Christ, sanctify me; body of Christ, save me; blood of Christ, saturate me; as Thou art good, Christ, wash me.”41In allusion, perhaps, to the custom of men who were ready to perjure themselves, as false witnesses, to go about with a straw sticking out from between the foot and the shoe—“men of straw.” [Riley.]42See the Ordinance of 1410.43Mayor 1409–10.44thereof.45Query “yrof” == thereof.46Near Wingham, Kent.47Riley p. 594.48The term “Wardens” is a more modern designation used for convenience sake; the Master and the three Wardens are, strictly speaking, the four “Masters or Governors.”49Being = living.50Many.51But if = unless.52Wise.53Hired servants.54Unless.55Skill.56Manner of person.57Manner of person.58More.59Once.60Afore rehearsed.61Afore rehearsed.62Wherethrough = whereby.63A blank in the original.64? “For reformation.”65Jeopardy.66Maiming.67? “Day” or “dressing.”68? “Value.”69Master 1475, 1483, 1485, 1490, 1496.70Master 1510.71Master 1504.72Wealth.73By.74“The apposition”==the questioning.75By.76The copy of these Ordinances given by Mr. D’Arcy Power (p. 339) is taken from one made by our old friend Thomas Knot, and is not literally, though it is substantially, accurate.77Here we have the common practice of the joint craftsman, the “Barber-Surgeon,” clearly indicated.78Part of the above description has been adapted from an anonymous paragraph, which I found interleaved in Allen’s History of London, at the Guildhall Library.79Probably a mistake for 14th.80Loaves.81Said to have been part of the dissecting table!82James Pierce (or Pearse) Surgeon to Charles II and to the Duke of York. Master in 167583i.e.,1617/8.84Vycary.85Tholmwood.86Sprignall.87Bowle.88Cazier?89Daiseman.90Butphillian.91Tholmwood.92Ingolsby.93Inhabitant.94Prolixity.95Guildhall.96A hundred.97Waits.98St. Ethelburga.99A clerical error, for Henry VIII.100Assessed at a fine of £10. Nicholas (Archbishop of) York, Chancellor.101Brought.102One.103Anatomy.104Shooting, probably at Moorfields, with bows and arrows.105Meat.106Goodly.107Arms.108Ancients (flags).109The other.110Thomas Galle.111His side.112St. Alphage.113Preach.114The amount is left blank.115i.e., 1578.116On.117Health in Christ.118Worship.119But these disbursements had been very heavyin the nature of repairs.120But seep. 61as to this Will. I cannot explain the discrepancy.121Master 1526, 1533.122M. 1530, etc.123M. 1532.124M. 1542, 1545.125M. 1544.126M. 1547.127Warden 1544.128W. 1546.129W. 1547.130W. 1549.131M. 1553.132W. 1539.133M. 1554.134M. 1563.135W. 1547.136W. 1548.137W. 1554.138The Beadle.139The word “masse” has been subsequently erased.140“Masse” has been subsequently erased, and “s’rvice” substituted.141St. Paul s.142Cooper.143Calais.144Reparations (of the Company’s houses).145Off.146Come.147George Vaughan, Master 1569.148Master 1606.149Razors.150Than as one.151Mouths.152First Master of Dulwich College.153The celebrated herbalist.154Probably quack doctor’s advertisements.155The Earl of Nottingham, at Greenwich.156Charter.1571604/5.158Lord High Admiral.159Accepted.160St. Paul s.161The first Master of Dulwich College.162Master in 1604.163The tinctures are from Burke’s Armory.164Oars.165A City Poet.166At Lambeth.167Indenture.168This theory is confirmed by the Ordinances made in 1566, whereby it was enacted that a liverymanmightbe chosen an Assistant without having ever served the office of Governor.169The quarterage is now usually compounded for on admission by payment of a sum down.170That is, he was flogged.171The contempt being that Udall having “put away” his Apprentice, (i.e., had him locked up in Bridewell, without the leave of the Court,) and being fined 40s.for that offence, had refused to pay his fine.172On.173His late apprentice.174Parishes.175Able,i.e., solvent.176Be forgiven.177St. Paul’s.178Hats.179Formally.180Custos or keepers.181Charges.182i.e.Having been.183i.e.Sued.184Party.185In the ordinances of Sir Thos. More.186Difficult.187Although.188On,i.e., of.189On.190Paradice.191An eminent Surgeon and Warden in 1594.192Sued.193Outside his house.194i.e., His patient.195Pressing.196i.e., Surgeons not free of the Company.197For a very interesting account of Morus’ Tables and of Mr. Deputy Caldwell see Mr. D’Arcy Power’s Memorials,p. 184.198Presentation.199Alias.200Warden in 1608.201Warden in 1611.202Operations.203Alderman, Master 1651.204Master 1655.205Canonbury Bessie, a malefactor.206Niches.207Martin Browne, an eminent Surgeon, Master in 1653, gave the Company a Silver loving cup and cover.208Warden, 1654.209Master, 1646.210Master, 1650.211Master 1650.212M. 1651.213M. 1655.214M. 1657.215M. 1659.216M. 1667.217i.e., 1690.218Thomas Tenison, ob. 14th December, 1715.219This statement as to a Charter by Edward II is a fiction, as also that it was confirmed by Edward IV, with an additional clause. The first Charter was granted by Edward IV, 24th February, 1462. The remainder of the facts stated in this letter to the Archbishop are, however, correct.220At the British Museum there is “A collection of Surgical Tracts,” by William Beckett, F.R.S., London, 1740, and in the preface thereto it is stated that the collection formed by Mr. Beckett relating to eminent Surgeons had not been published.2211676 N.S.2221729 N.S.223Suppers.224i.e., proceed to be Master of the Anatomy next year.225It was the worthy Alderman Arris himself.226A clerical mistake for “antiquity,”i.e., precedence.227Christopher Terne, of Leyden, M.D., originally of Cambridge, and Fellow of the College of Physicians. Ob. 1673.228Probably, Nicholas Archenbold (Warden 1564, &c.).229Query “turquoise.”230A primitive appliance for shampooing.231Steel.232The Company’s Carpenter and Bricklayer always accompanied the Masters on view days, to advise as to the state of repair of the property.233Coroner.234St. Paul’s.235The Company’s Clerk.236Parson.237The Clerk provided the Lantern over the Entrance in Monkwell Street, in accordance with the ancient City custom of lighting the streets.238Potation,i.e., drinking.239The Company’s standing Counsel.240The Company compounded with Mr. Stower at £5 per annum to provide the corn required by the City.241Beef.242The Cook’s apron was probably embellished with the Company’s arms or crest.243The wands or staffs carried by the whifflers who headed the processions on pageant days, etc.244The Beadle.245There was a great plague in the City this year—Harbert was the Company’s Beadle.246Quack doctor’s advertisements.247The amount torn out in original.248Reparations.249Christian.250For whipping apprentices.251Floors.252These are the Company’s “colours,” and purchases of green and white silk and ribbons occur almost every year in the accounts.253This is the book from which these extracts are taken.254Christian.255Ceiling and (qy.) flooring.256Parting,i.e., dividing with a fence.257The Standings which were placed in the Street for the Company’s use on Lord Mayor’s Day.258Wands.259Against persons practising Barbery or Surgery and not free of the Company.260Compter in Wood Street.261Preston was the Porter or Under Beadle.262Frederick V, Elector Palatine—son-in-law of James I.263ob. = obolus, a halfpenny.264See head piece to Chapter on “Charities.”265The New River water.266Charles II at the Restoration.267Samuel Pepys, the Diarist.268Pepys also kept this day. He says,—“Thankes-giving day for victory over the Dutch. To the Dolphin Taverne, where all we officers of the Navy met with the Commissioners of the Ordnance by agreement, and dined: where good musique at my direction. Our club came to 34s.a man, nine of us. By water to Fox-hall, and there walked an hour alone, observing the several humours of the citizens that were there this holiday, pulling off cherries, and God knows what.”269This was no doubt wanted for an “Anatomy.”270These are still at the Hall.271Probably the body of a prisoner who had died in one of the Compters.272A criminal hung at Tyburn.273i.e., openly, honestly.274Pursuits.275Award.276Umpires.277Apprentice.278Master 1597 and Serjeant Surgeon.279Warden 1594.280Presently,i.e., at once.281This statement is incorrect. The Act of Parliament was passed in 1540, but was not confirmed by any letters patent of Henry VIII. We have no such charter or any reference to it, and moreover it isnot on the Patent Rolls, where it would appear, had it ever existed; furthermore Elizabeth’s charter (in our possession) confirms Henry’s charter of 1512 and not this pretended one.282The office of Steward is not now served, but each Liveryman on admission pays a special fine of fifteen guineas in lieu, which is applied towards the cost of the entertainments.28324th August.28427th September.285Buck.286Contribution.287Solemn.288Operations.289Turkeys and sauce.290Pewter.291Pigs.292Eggs.293Ducks.294Sauce.295Should be £120.296i.e., directly.297Now in the Ante Room at the Hall.298Called elsewhere an “Escrutore.”299This half-moon table stood at the upper end of the Hall in the bastion, where the Masters and Court sat.300Master 1575.301Warden 1590, 1593, 1596.302Master 1543.303Master 1554.304Presently—at once.305Master 1590.306Master 1602.307Master 1617.308Master 1596.309Master 1629.310Master 1628.311Probably in fear of its being forcibly seized.312An Assistant.313Regis Chir. Principalis (Chief Surgeon to the King).314Serjeant Surgeon.315Olive tree.316Master of the Barber-Surgeons 1569. He died 26th December, 1569.317Lord Mayor, 1540.318Sheriff, 1554.319This notice of Vicary is partially condensed from the exhaustive account of him, written by Dr. F. J. Furnivall, and published in the Early English Text Society. Extra series LIII.320Master 1565 and 1573, Serjeant-Surgeon.321Syringe.322Warden 1559.323Lambskin with the wool dressed outwards.324A kind of plaster box or small repository.325Master 1572 and 1580.326Master 1569.327Guido de Cauliaco, one of the principal Surgery text books of the time.328Warden 1548.329A well-known surgical work.330Master 1577.331Warden 1559.332Warden 1575.333Warden in 1575, his fellow apprentice with Nich. Alcock.334Serjeant-Surgeon and Master 1594.335Master 1597.336Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1586–1593.337Warden 1615, 16, and 17 (died in 1617).338Gerard’s Herball.339The woodcuts for these illustrations were procured from Frankfort, and originally executed for the German Herbal of Tabernæmontanus.340John Peck, Master 1605 and 1610.341Warden 1590, 1593, 1596.342W. 1601.343Master 1591.344W. 1584, 1587, 1591.345M. 1600.346W. 1591, 1595, 1597.347W. 1596.348M. 1617.349M. 1590.350M. 1595.351M. 1598, 1604.352M. 1601.353Seep. 538.354The lease was dated 14th August, 1603, and was for 2 acres of land for Gerard’s life at a yearly rent of four pence, with a tribute of herbs, &c., if demanded.355General assemblies of the guild.356There are two words here which I could not decipher.357A clerical mistake for 21st year of Henry VIII (1529).358i.e.Covenant Servants, servants or assistants engaged under covenants to serve for a period (generally two years), and whose engagements were recorded by the Clerk at the Hall.359i.e., hired.360Pursuits.361Peril.362But if = except.363Ancienty,i.e., his precedence according to seniority.364Misprint for xlij.365A misprint for “limmes” = limbs.366A misprint for “now.”367In.368Diseased.369One.370Blank in original.371Blank in original.372Probably, white, blue and green.3733 H. 8. Ch.11. No Person within the City ofLondon, nor within seven Miles, shall occupy as aSurgeon, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the Bishop ofLondonor Dean of St.Paul’s.37432 H. 8. Ch. 42. Sect. 3.No Person within the City ofLondon, Suburbs of the same, and one Mile Compass of the said City, using any Barbery or Shaving, shall occupy any Surgery, Letting of Blood, or any other Thing belonging to Surgery, Drawing of Teeth only except.37532 H. 8. Ch. 42.The united Company shall have, possess, and enjoy, to them and their Successors for ever, all such Lands and Tenements, and other Hereditaments whatsoever, which the said Company or Commonalty ofBarbershave and enjoy,to the Useof the said Mystery and Commonalty ofBarbersof London.

1John Hassall chosen Warden.

2Richd.Cooper chosen Warden.

3John Dards chosen Warden.

4Willm.Lingham chosen Warden.

5Martin Browne chosen Warden.

6John Conny chosen Warden.

7Willm.Watkins chosen Warden.

8Willm.Smith chosen Warden.

9John Shott chosen Warden.

10Wm.Parker chosen Warden.

11Mr. Medley had been Master of the Barber-Surgeons from Election day, 1744, until the 24th June, 1745, and was Master of the Barbers from that date until Election day, 1745, when Mr. Negus was chosen.

12Saml.Norton chosen Warden.

13Willm.Evans chosen Warden.

14Timothy Baylie chosen Warden.

15James Scott chosen Warden.

16Danl.Adams chosen Warden.

17Thos.Thompson chosen Warden.

18Thos.Herbert chosen Warden.

19John Field chosen Warden.

20Thomas Law chosen Warden.

21James Clapp chosen Warden.

22Edward Grose Smith chosen Warden.

23Saml.Closs chosen Warden.

24Joel Edwards chosen Warden.

25Willm.Hare chosen Warden.

26Willm.Dunsford White chosen Warden.

27Francis Snelling chosen Warden.

28Edwd.Stone chosen Warden.

29A mistake for Anno xijo.

30Sworn Masters of the Barbers, 10 Sept., 1388. 12th Ric. II. (Letter-Book H.235B.)

31The day of the funeral.

32Thirty masses sung at the expense of the common box.

33i.e., honestly.

34I am unable to complete this sentence.

3518th Aug., 1387.

36i.e., a guarantee for his honesty.

37In this and some other cases I have adopted the able translations made by Mr. Riley in his “Memorials of London and London Life.”

38The general name for country places in those days.

39Wandsworth.

40“Soul of Christ, sanctify me; body of Christ, save me; blood of Christ, saturate me; as Thou art good, Christ, wash me.”

41In allusion, perhaps, to the custom of men who were ready to perjure themselves, as false witnesses, to go about with a straw sticking out from between the foot and the shoe—“men of straw.” [Riley.]

42See the Ordinance of 1410.

43Mayor 1409–10.

44thereof.

45Query “yrof” == thereof.

46Near Wingham, Kent.

47Riley p. 594.

48The term “Wardens” is a more modern designation used for convenience sake; the Master and the three Wardens are, strictly speaking, the four “Masters or Governors.”

49Being = living.

50Many.

51But if = unless.

52Wise.

53Hired servants.

54Unless.

55Skill.

56Manner of person.

57Manner of person.

58More.

59Once.

60Afore rehearsed.

61Afore rehearsed.

62Wherethrough = whereby.

63A blank in the original.

64? “For reformation.”

65Jeopardy.

66Maiming.

67? “Day” or “dressing.”

68? “Value.”

69Master 1475, 1483, 1485, 1490, 1496.

70Master 1510.

71Master 1504.

72Wealth.

73By.

74“The apposition”==the questioning.

75By.

76The copy of these Ordinances given by Mr. D’Arcy Power (p. 339) is taken from one made by our old friend Thomas Knot, and is not literally, though it is substantially, accurate.

77Here we have the common practice of the joint craftsman, the “Barber-Surgeon,” clearly indicated.

78Part of the above description has been adapted from an anonymous paragraph, which I found interleaved in Allen’s History of London, at the Guildhall Library.

79Probably a mistake for 14th.

80Loaves.

81Said to have been part of the dissecting table!

82James Pierce (or Pearse) Surgeon to Charles II and to the Duke of York. Master in 1675

83i.e.,1617/8.

84Vycary.

85Tholmwood.

86Sprignall.

87Bowle.

88Cazier?

89Daiseman.

90Butphillian.

91Tholmwood.

92Ingolsby.

93Inhabitant.

94Prolixity.

95Guildhall.

96A hundred.

97Waits.

98St. Ethelburga.

99A clerical error, for Henry VIII.

100Assessed at a fine of £10. Nicholas (Archbishop of) York, Chancellor.

101Brought.

102One.

103Anatomy.

104Shooting, probably at Moorfields, with bows and arrows.

105Meat.

106Goodly.

107Arms.

108Ancients (flags).

109The other.

110Thomas Galle.

111His side.

112St. Alphage.

113Preach.

114The amount is left blank.

115i.e., 1578.

116On.

117Health in Christ.

118Worship.

119But these disbursements had been very heavyin the nature of repairs.

120But seep. 61as to this Will. I cannot explain the discrepancy.

121Master 1526, 1533.

122M. 1530, etc.

123M. 1532.

124M. 1542, 1545.

125M. 1544.

126M. 1547.

127Warden 1544.

128W. 1546.

129W. 1547.

130W. 1549.

131M. 1553.

132W. 1539.

133M. 1554.

134M. 1563.

135W. 1547.

136W. 1548.

137W. 1554.

138The Beadle.

139The word “masse” has been subsequently erased.

140“Masse” has been subsequently erased, and “s’rvice” substituted.

141St. Paul s.

142Cooper.

143Calais.

144Reparations (of the Company’s houses).

145Off.

146Come.

147George Vaughan, Master 1569.

148Master 1606.

149Razors.

150Than as one.

151Mouths.

152First Master of Dulwich College.

153The celebrated herbalist.

154Probably quack doctor’s advertisements.

155The Earl of Nottingham, at Greenwich.

156Charter.

1571604/5.

158Lord High Admiral.

159Accepted.

160St. Paul s.

161The first Master of Dulwich College.

162Master in 1604.

163The tinctures are from Burke’s Armory.

164Oars.

165A City Poet.

166At Lambeth.

167Indenture.

168This theory is confirmed by the Ordinances made in 1566, whereby it was enacted that a liverymanmightbe chosen an Assistant without having ever served the office of Governor.

169The quarterage is now usually compounded for on admission by payment of a sum down.

170That is, he was flogged.

171The contempt being that Udall having “put away” his Apprentice, (i.e., had him locked up in Bridewell, without the leave of the Court,) and being fined 40s.for that offence, had refused to pay his fine.

172On.

173His late apprentice.

174Parishes.

175Able,i.e., solvent.

176Be forgiven.

177St. Paul’s.

178Hats.

179Formally.

180Custos or keepers.

181Charges.

182i.e.Having been.

183i.e.Sued.

184Party.

185In the ordinances of Sir Thos. More.

186Difficult.

187Although.

188On,i.e., of.

189On.

190Paradice.

191An eminent Surgeon and Warden in 1594.

192Sued.

193Outside his house.

194i.e., His patient.

195Pressing.

196i.e., Surgeons not free of the Company.

197For a very interesting account of Morus’ Tables and of Mr. Deputy Caldwell see Mr. D’Arcy Power’s Memorials,p. 184.

198Presentation.

199Alias.

200Warden in 1608.

201Warden in 1611.

202Operations.

203Alderman, Master 1651.

204Master 1655.

205Canonbury Bessie, a malefactor.

206Niches.

207Martin Browne, an eminent Surgeon, Master in 1653, gave the Company a Silver loving cup and cover.

208Warden, 1654.

209Master, 1646.

210Master, 1650.

211Master 1650.

212M. 1651.

213M. 1655.

214M. 1657.

215M. 1659.

216M. 1667.

217i.e., 1690.

218Thomas Tenison, ob. 14th December, 1715.

219This statement as to a Charter by Edward II is a fiction, as also that it was confirmed by Edward IV, with an additional clause. The first Charter was granted by Edward IV, 24th February, 1462. The remainder of the facts stated in this letter to the Archbishop are, however, correct.

220At the British Museum there is “A collection of Surgical Tracts,” by William Beckett, F.R.S., London, 1740, and in the preface thereto it is stated that the collection formed by Mr. Beckett relating to eminent Surgeons had not been published.

2211676 N.S.

2221729 N.S.

223Suppers.

224i.e., proceed to be Master of the Anatomy next year.

225It was the worthy Alderman Arris himself.

226A clerical mistake for “antiquity,”i.e., precedence.

227Christopher Terne, of Leyden, M.D., originally of Cambridge, and Fellow of the College of Physicians. Ob. 1673.

228Probably, Nicholas Archenbold (Warden 1564, &c.).

229Query “turquoise.”

230A primitive appliance for shampooing.

231Steel.

232The Company’s Carpenter and Bricklayer always accompanied the Masters on view days, to advise as to the state of repair of the property.

233Coroner.

234St. Paul’s.

235The Company’s Clerk.

236Parson.

237The Clerk provided the Lantern over the Entrance in Monkwell Street, in accordance with the ancient City custom of lighting the streets.

238Potation,i.e., drinking.

239The Company’s standing Counsel.

240The Company compounded with Mr. Stower at £5 per annum to provide the corn required by the City.

241Beef.

242The Cook’s apron was probably embellished with the Company’s arms or crest.

243The wands or staffs carried by the whifflers who headed the processions on pageant days, etc.

244The Beadle.

245There was a great plague in the City this year—Harbert was the Company’s Beadle.

246Quack doctor’s advertisements.

247The amount torn out in original.

248Reparations.

249Christian.

250For whipping apprentices.

251Floors.

252These are the Company’s “colours,” and purchases of green and white silk and ribbons occur almost every year in the accounts.

253This is the book from which these extracts are taken.

254Christian.

255Ceiling and (qy.) flooring.

256Parting,i.e., dividing with a fence.

257The Standings which were placed in the Street for the Company’s use on Lord Mayor’s Day.

258Wands.

259Against persons practising Barbery or Surgery and not free of the Company.

260Compter in Wood Street.

261Preston was the Porter or Under Beadle.

262Frederick V, Elector Palatine—son-in-law of James I.

263ob. = obolus, a halfpenny.

264See head piece to Chapter on “Charities.”

265The New River water.

266Charles II at the Restoration.

267Samuel Pepys, the Diarist.

268Pepys also kept this day. He says,—“Thankes-giving day for victory over the Dutch. To the Dolphin Taverne, where all we officers of the Navy met with the Commissioners of the Ordnance by agreement, and dined: where good musique at my direction. Our club came to 34s.a man, nine of us. By water to Fox-hall, and there walked an hour alone, observing the several humours of the citizens that were there this holiday, pulling off cherries, and God knows what.”

269This was no doubt wanted for an “Anatomy.”

270These are still at the Hall.

271Probably the body of a prisoner who had died in one of the Compters.

272A criminal hung at Tyburn.

273i.e., openly, honestly.

274Pursuits.

275Award.

276Umpires.

277Apprentice.

278Master 1597 and Serjeant Surgeon.

279Warden 1594.

280Presently,i.e., at once.

281This statement is incorrect. The Act of Parliament was passed in 1540, but was not confirmed by any letters patent of Henry VIII. We have no such charter or any reference to it, and moreover it isnot on the Patent Rolls, where it would appear, had it ever existed; furthermore Elizabeth’s charter (in our possession) confirms Henry’s charter of 1512 and not this pretended one.

282The office of Steward is not now served, but each Liveryman on admission pays a special fine of fifteen guineas in lieu, which is applied towards the cost of the entertainments.

28324th August.

28427th September.

285Buck.

286Contribution.

287Solemn.

288Operations.

289Turkeys and sauce.

290Pewter.

291Pigs.

292Eggs.

293Ducks.

294Sauce.

295Should be £120.

296i.e., directly.

297Now in the Ante Room at the Hall.

298Called elsewhere an “Escrutore.”

299This half-moon table stood at the upper end of the Hall in the bastion, where the Masters and Court sat.

300Master 1575.

301Warden 1590, 1593, 1596.

302Master 1543.

303Master 1554.

304Presently—at once.

305Master 1590.

306Master 1602.

307Master 1617.

308Master 1596.

309Master 1629.

310Master 1628.

311Probably in fear of its being forcibly seized.

312An Assistant.

313Regis Chir. Principalis (Chief Surgeon to the King).

314Serjeant Surgeon.

315Olive tree.

316Master of the Barber-Surgeons 1569. He died 26th December, 1569.

317Lord Mayor, 1540.

318Sheriff, 1554.

319This notice of Vicary is partially condensed from the exhaustive account of him, written by Dr. F. J. Furnivall, and published in the Early English Text Society. Extra series LIII.

320Master 1565 and 1573, Serjeant-Surgeon.

321Syringe.

322Warden 1559.

323Lambskin with the wool dressed outwards.

324A kind of plaster box or small repository.

325Master 1572 and 1580.

326Master 1569.

327Guido de Cauliaco, one of the principal Surgery text books of the time.

328Warden 1548.

329A well-known surgical work.

330Master 1577.

331Warden 1559.

332Warden 1575.

333Warden in 1575, his fellow apprentice with Nich. Alcock.

334Serjeant-Surgeon and Master 1594.

335Master 1597.

336Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1586–1593.

337Warden 1615, 16, and 17 (died in 1617).

338Gerard’s Herball.

339The woodcuts for these illustrations were procured from Frankfort, and originally executed for the German Herbal of Tabernæmontanus.

340John Peck, Master 1605 and 1610.

341Warden 1590, 1593, 1596.

342W. 1601.

343Master 1591.

344W. 1584, 1587, 1591.

345M. 1600.

346W. 1591, 1595, 1597.

347W. 1596.

348M. 1617.

349M. 1590.

350M. 1595.

351M. 1598, 1604.

352M. 1601.

353Seep. 538.

354The lease was dated 14th August, 1603, and was for 2 acres of land for Gerard’s life at a yearly rent of four pence, with a tribute of herbs, &c., if demanded.

355General assemblies of the guild.

356There are two words here which I could not decipher.

357A clerical mistake for 21st year of Henry VIII (1529).

358i.e.Covenant Servants, servants or assistants engaged under covenants to serve for a period (generally two years), and whose engagements were recorded by the Clerk at the Hall.

359i.e., hired.

360Pursuits.

361Peril.

362But if = except.

363Ancienty,i.e., his precedence according to seniority.

364Misprint for xlij.

365A misprint for “limmes” = limbs.

366A misprint for “now.”

367In.

368Diseased.

369One.

370Blank in original.

371Blank in original.

372Probably, white, blue and green.

3733 H. 8. Ch.11. No Person within the City ofLondon, nor within seven Miles, shall occupy as aSurgeon, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the Bishop ofLondonor Dean of St.Paul’s.

37432 H. 8. Ch. 42. Sect. 3.No Person within the City ofLondon, Suburbs of the same, and one Mile Compass of the said City, using any Barbery or Shaving, shall occupy any Surgery, Letting of Blood, or any other Thing belonging to Surgery, Drawing of Teeth only except.

37532 H. 8. Ch. 42.The united Company shall have, possess, and enjoy, to them and their Successors for ever, all such Lands and Tenements, and other Hereditaments whatsoever, which the said Company or Commonalty ofBarbershave and enjoy,to the Useof the said Mystery and Commonalty ofBarbersof London.

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