FOOTNOTES:
[1] John Hassall chosen Warden.
[2] Richd. Cooper chosen Warden.
[3] John Dards chosen Warden.
[4] Willm. Lingham chosen Warden.
[5] Martin Browne chosen Warden.
[6] John Conny chosen Warden.
[7] Willm. Watkins chosen Warden.
[8] Willm. Smith chosen Warden.
[9] John Shott chosen Warden.
[10] Wm. Parker chosen Warden.
[11] Mr. 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.
[12] Saml. Norton chosen Warden.
[13] Willm. Evans chosen Warden.
[14] Timothy Baylie chosen Warden.
[15] James Scott chosen Warden.
[16] Danl. Adams chosen Warden.
[17] Thos. Thompson chosen Warden.
[18] Thos. Herbert chosen Warden.
[19] John Field chosen Warden.
[20] Thomas Law chosen Warden.
[21] James Clapp chosen Warden.
[22] Edward Grose Smith chosen Warden.
[23] Saml. Closs chosen Warden.
[24] Joel Edwards chosen Warden.
[25] Willm. Hare chosen Warden.
[26] Willm. Dunsford White chosen Warden.
[27] Francis Snelling chosen Warden.
[28] Edwd. Stone chosen Warden.
[29] A mistake for Anno xijo.
[30] Sworn Masters of the Barbers, 10 Sept., 1388. 12th Ric. II. (Letter-Book H. 235B.)
[31] The day of the funeral.
[32] Thirty masses sung at the expense of the common box.
[33] i.e., honestly.
[34] I am unable to complete this sentence.
[35] 18th Aug., 1387.
[36] i.e., a guarantee for his honesty.
[37] In this and some other cases I have adopted the able translations made by Mr. Riley in his “Memorials of London and London Life.”
[38] The general name for country places in those days.
[39] Wandsworth.
[40] “Soul of Christ, sanctify me; body of Christ, save me; blood of Christ, saturate me; as Thou art good, Christ, wash me.”
[41] In 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.]
[42] See the Ordinance of 1410.
[43] Mayor 1409–10.
[44] thereof.
[45] Query “yr of” == thereof.
[46] Near Wingham, Kent.
[47] Riley p. 594.
[48] The 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.”
[49] Being = living.
[50] Many.
[51] But if = unless.
[52] Wise.
[53] Hired servants.
[54] Unless.
[55] Skill.
[56] Manner of person.
[57] Manner of person.
[58] More.
[59] Once.
[60] Afore rehearsed.
[61] Afore rehearsed.
[62] Wherethrough = whereby.
[63] A blank in the original.
[64]? “For reformation.”
[65] Jeopardy.
[66] Maiming.
[67]? “Day” or “dressing.”
[68]? “Value.”
[69] Master 1475, 1483, 1485, 1490, 1496.
[70] Master 1510.
[71] Master 1504.
[72] Wealth.
[73] By.
[74] “The apposition”==the questioning.
[75] By.
[76] The 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.
[77] Here we have the common practice of the joint craftsman, the “Barber-Surgeon,” clearly indicated.
[78] Part 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.
[79] Probably a mistake for 14th.
[80] Loaves.
[81] Said to have been part of the dissecting table!
[82] James Pierce (or Pearse) Surgeon to Charles II and to the Duke of York. Master in 1675
[83] i.e., 161 7/8.
[84] Vycary.
[85] Tholmwood.
[86] Sprignall.
[87] Bowle.
[88] Cazier?
[89] Daiseman.
[90] Butphillian.
[91] Tholmwood.
[92] Ingolsby.
[93] Inhabitant.
[94] Prolixity.
[95] Guildhall.
[96] A hundred.
[97] Waits.
[98] St. Ethelburga.
[99] A clerical error, for Henry VIII.
[100] Assessed at a fine of £10. Nicholas (Archbishop of) York, Chancellor.
[101] Brought.
[102] One.
[103] Anatomy.
[104] Shooting, probably at Moorfields, with bows and arrows.
[105] Meat.
[106] Goodly.
[107] Arms.
[108] Ancients (flags).
[109] The other.
[110] Thomas Galle.
[111] His side.
[112] St. Alphage.
[113] Preach.
[114] The amount is left blank.
[115] i.e., 1578.
[116] On.
[117] Health in Christ.
[118] Worship.
[119] But these disbursements had been very heavy in the nature of repairs.
[120] But see [p. 61] as to this Will. I cannot explain the discrepancy.
[121] Master 1526, 1533.
[122] M. 1530, etc.
[123] M. 1532.
[124] M. 1542, 1545.
[125] M. 1544.
[126] M. 1547.
[127] Warden 1544.
[128] W. 1546.
[129] W. 1547.
[130] W. 1549.
[131] M. 1553.
[132] W. 1539.
[133] M. 1554.
[134] M. 1563.
[135] W. 1547.
[136] W. 1548.
[137] W. 1554.
[138] The Beadle.
[139] The word “masse” has been subsequently erased.
[140] “Masse” has been subsequently erased, and “s’rvice” substituted.
[141] St. Paul s.
[142] Cooper.
[143] Calais.
[144] Reparations (of the Company’s houses).
[145] Off.
[146] Come.
[147] George Vaughan, Master 1569.
[148] Master 1606.
[149] Razors.
[150] Than as one.
[151] Mouths.
[152] First Master of Dulwich College.
[153] The celebrated herbalist.
[154] Probably quack doctor’s advertisements.
[155] The Earl of Nottingham, at Greenwich.
[156] Charter.
[157] 160 4/5.
[158] Lord High Admiral.
[159] Accepted.
[160] St. Paul s.
[161] The first Master of Dulwich College.
[162] Master in 1604.
[163] The tinctures are from Burke’s Armory.
[164] Oars.
[165] A City Poet.
[166] At Lambeth.
[167] Indenture.
[168] This theory is confirmed by the Ordinances made in 1566, whereby it was enacted that a liveryman might be chosen an Assistant without having ever served the office of Governor.
[169] The quarterage is now usually compounded for on admission by payment of a sum down.
[170] That is, he was flogged.
[171] The 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.
[172] On.
[173] His late apprentice.
[174] Parishes.
[175] Able, i.e., solvent.
[176] Be forgiven.
[177] St. Paul’s.
[178] Hats.
[179] Formally.
[180] Custos or keepers.
[181] Charges.
[182] i.e. Having been.
[183] i.e. Sued.
[184] Party.
[185] In the ordinances of Sir Thos. More.
[186] Difficult.
[187] Although.
[188] On, i.e., of.
[189] On.
[190] Paradice.
[191] An eminent Surgeon and Warden in 1594.
[192] Sued.
[193] Outside his house.
[194] i.e., His patient.
[195] Pressing.
[196] i.e., Surgeons not free of the Company.
[197] For a very interesting account of Morus’ Tables and of Mr. Deputy Caldwell see Mr. D’Arcy Power’s Memorials, [p. 184].
[198] Presentation.
[199] Alias.
[200] Warden in 1608.
[201] Warden in 1611.
[202] Operations.
[203] Alderman, Master 1651.
[204] Master 1655.
[205] Canonbury Bessie, a malefactor.
[206] Niches.
[207] Martin Browne, an eminent Surgeon, Master in 1653, gave the Company a Silver loving cup and cover.
[208] Warden, 1654.
[209] Master, 1646.
[210] Master, 1650.
[211] Master 1650.
[212] M. 1651.
[213] M. 1655.
[214] M. 1657.
[215] M. 1659.
[216] M. 1667.
[217] i.e., 1690.
[218] Thomas Tenison, ob. 14th December, 1715.
[219] This 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.
[220] At 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.
[221] 1676 N.S.
[222] 1729 N.S.
[223] Suppers.
[224] i.e., proceed to be Master of the Anatomy next year.
[225] It was the worthy Alderman Arris himself.
[226] A clerical mistake for “antiquity,” i.e., precedence.
[227] Christopher Terne, of Leyden, M.D., originally of Cambridge, and Fellow of the College of Physicians. Ob. 1673.
[228] Probably, Nicholas Archenbold (Warden 1564, &c.).
[229] Query “turquoise.”
[230] A primitive appliance for shampooing.
[231] Steel.
[232] The Company’s Carpenter and Bricklayer always accompanied the Masters on view days, to advise as to the state of repair of the property.
[233] Coroner.
[234] St. Paul’s.
[235] The Company’s Clerk.
[236] Parson.
[237] The Clerk provided the Lantern over the Entrance in Monkwell Street, in accordance with the ancient City custom of lighting the streets.
[238] Potation, i.e., drinking.
[239] The Company’s standing Counsel.
[240] The Company compounded with Mr. Stower at £5 per annum to provide the corn required by the City.
[241] Beef.
[242] The Cook’s apron was probably embellished with the Company’s arms or crest.
[243] The wands or staffs carried by the whifflers who headed the processions on pageant days, etc.
[244] The Beadle.
[245] There was a great plague in the City this year—Harbert was the Company’s Beadle.
[246] Quack doctor’s advertisements.
[247] The amount torn out in original.
[248] Reparations.
[249] Christian.
[250] For whipping apprentices.
[251] Floors.
[252] These are the Company’s “colours,” and purchases of green and white silk and ribbons occur almost every year in the accounts.
[253] This is the book from which these extracts are taken.
[254] Christian.
[255] Ceiling and (qy.) flooring.
[256] Parting, i.e., dividing with a fence.
[257] The Standings which were placed in the Street for the Company’s use on Lord Mayor’s Day.
[258] Wands.
[259] Against persons practising Barbery or Surgery and not free of the Company.
[260] Compter in Wood Street.
[261] Preston was the Porter or Under Beadle.
[262] Frederick V, Elector Palatine—son-in-law of James I.
[263] ob. = obolus, a halfpenny.
[264] See head piece to Chapter on “[Charities].”
[265] The New River water.
[266] Charles II at the Restoration.
[267] Samuel Pepys, the Diarist.
[268] Pepys 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.”
[269] This was no doubt wanted for an “Anatomy.”
[270] These are still at the Hall.
[271] Probably the body of a prisoner who had died in one of the Compters.
[272] A criminal hung at Tyburn.
[273] i.e., openly, honestly.
[274] Pursuits.
[275] Award.
[276] Umpires.
[277] Apprentice.
[278] Master 1597 and Serjeant Surgeon.
[279] Warden 1594.
[280] Presently, i.e., at once.
[281] This 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 is not 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.
[282] The 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.
[283] 24th August.
[284] 27th September.
[285] Buck.
[286] Contribution.
[287] Solemn.
[288] Operations.
[289] Turkeys and sauce.
[290] Pewter.
[291] Pigs.
[292] Eggs.
[293] Ducks.
[294] Sauce.
[295] Should be £120.
[296] i.e., directly.
[297] Now in the Ante Room at the Hall.
[298] Called elsewhere an “Escrutore.”
[299] This half-moon table stood at the upper end of the Hall in the bastion, where the Masters and Court sat.
[300] Master 1575.
[301] Warden 1590, 1593, 1596.
[302] Master 1543.
[303] Master 1554.
[304] Presently—at once.
[305] Master 1590.
[306] Master 1602.
[307] Master 1617.
[308] Master 1596.
[309] Master 1629.
[310] Master 1628.
[311] Probably in fear of its being forcibly seized.
[312] An Assistant.
[313] Regis Chir. Principalis (Chief Surgeon to the King).
[314] Serjeant Surgeon.
[315] Olive tree.
[316] Master of the Barber-Surgeons 1569. He died 26th December, 1569.
[317] Lord Mayor, 1540.
[318] Sheriff, 1554.
[319] This 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.
[320] Master 1565 and 1573, Serjeant-Surgeon.
[321] Syringe.
[322] Warden 1559.
[323] Lambskin with the wool dressed outwards.
[324] A kind of plaster box or small repository.
[325] Master 1572 and 1580.
[326] Master 1569.
[327] Guido de Cauliaco, one of the principal Surgery text books of the time.
[328] Warden 1548.
[329] A well-known surgical work.
[330] Master 1577.
[331] Warden 1559.
[332] Warden 1575.
[333] Warden in 1575, his fellow apprentice with Nich. Alcock.
[334] Serjeant-Surgeon and Master 1594.
[335] Master 1597.
[336] Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1586–1593.
[337] Warden 1615, 16, and 17 (died in 1617).
[338] Gerard’s Herball.
[339] The woodcuts for these illustrations were procured from Frankfort, and originally executed for the German Herbal of Tabernæmontanus.
[340] John Peck, Master 1605 and 1610.
[341] Warden 1590, 1593, 1596.
[342] W. 1601.
[343] Master 1591.
[344] W. 1584, 1587, 1591.
[345] M. 1600.
[346] W. 1591, 1595, 1597.
[347] W. 1596.
[348] M. 1617.
[349] M. 1590.
[350] M. 1595.
[351] M. 1598, 1604.
[352] M. 1601.
[354] The 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.
[355] General assemblies of the guild.
[356] There are two words here which I could not decipher.
[357] A clerical mistake for 21st year of Henry VIII (1529).
[358] i.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.
[359] i.e., hired.
[360] Pursuits.
[361] Peril.
[362] But if = except.
[363] Ancienty, i.e., his precedence according to seniority.
[364] Misprint for xlij.
[365] A misprint for “limmes” = limbs.
[366] A misprint for “now.”
[367] In.
[368] Diseased.
[369] One.
[370] Blank in original.
[371] Blank in original.
[372] Probably, white, blue and green.
[373] 3 H. 8. Ch. 11. No Person within the City of London, nor within seven Miles, shall occupy as a Surgeon, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the Bishop of London or Dean of St. Paul’s.
[374] 32 H. 8. Ch. 42. Sect. 3. No Person within the City of London, 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.
[375] 32 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 of Barbers have and enjoy, to the Use of the said Mystery and Commonalty of Barbers of London.
Text of CORN NOTE — inserted by transcriber
Barber Surgions London
Memorandum. That whereas by Precept yearly from the right Honourable, the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen. Our companie is streightly commanded to provide and have readie LXXX. Quarters of Corne for this Cities service, a Court of assistants, was held the 18th. Day of December 1633. to consider how to raise the Money, in regard our Companie is much indebted, by building our Granary, &c. And upon mature deliberation had, it was concluded & ordered, that each Person then being, or that thereafter should be, a Livery-man, should thereunto lend XXs. To be hereafter by the Masters, or Governours, for the time being, repaid out of their Corne-stock, to such Livery-mans Executors, or Administrators, within one moneth next after such Livery-mans death, being demanded, we therefore the present Masters, or Governours, do hereby acknowledge our selves to have received of Mr. {unreadable handwritten name} the said allotted some of Twenty shillings for the use aforesaid, And do hereby promise, that we or, our Successors then being, shall repay the said XXs. accoding as is before expressed witness our hands this 3d day of Aprill Anno Dom.—1688
Roger Knowles
John King
Will Sayfield
John Standbrooke
Governours.