Alsoe it is further ordered that dureing the tyme of reading of such lecture none of the audience shall interrupt or question the reader till the hower be runn out, and the lecture ended, at which tyme it shalbe lawfull for the Mrs and Wardeins and the examiners then present (if any error have bene comitted by such lecturer) to question such reader and to make manifest wherein he hath erred.
23rd October, 1628. Alsoe this daye Mr Doctor Andrewes is freely and loveingly chosen to be our reader at the next publique Anathomye to be holden in this Hall.
9th April, 1632. Alsoe this Court takeing into their considerations the greate care and paines of Mr Doctor Andrewes in his agitac͠ons and yearely readinge of our lectures in tyme of the discections of the publique Anathomyes for this fower yeares past doe nowe order that there shalbe given him xiijli vjs viijd as of the free guift of this house for his paines therefore.
16th June, 1632. And as concerning the order for reading of lectures in Surgerye by an approved surgion of this Companie, this Court did againe deliberate upon the same and every one of the Assistants declared his opinion therein and the pluralitie of voyces was to have lectures read by the approved Surgians of this house according to our ordinances and not by a Doctor of phisick.
20th December, 1632. Alsoe or Soveraigne Lord Kinge Charles his Letter directed to this Court was here openly reade and thereupon this Court in all obedient duetye and loyaltie to or soveraigne Lord the Kings pleasure signified in that letter doe make mc͠on of Mr Doctor Andrewes to be the weekely lecturer in surgerye for or Companie upon such Court dayes as wee are accustomed to keepe.
28th December, 1632. This daye was reade in Court the letter directed to or Mr from Mr Richard Andrews Doctor in Phisick whereby he doth desire to be excused from reading or weekely lectures in Surgerye, & thereupon this Court did goe to a new election, takeing notice of Mr Alex: Reade Doctor in Phisick approved by the Colledge of Phisitians London whoe was bredd a Chirurgian in ffraunce and hath bene a long time free of or Companie did make choice of the said Doctor Reade to be or Lecturer in Surgerye at such dayes and tymes as by order of Court is formerly ordered by this Court. And this Court doth further order that evˀy Surgian in the Lecture bill shall yearely paye towards the reading of such Lecture a certeyne some pˀticulerly, and that all those moneys gathered being cast up to a totall some shall out of the stock of this house be yearely made up xxli compleately for the said Doctors Readeing.
Among a collection of old books on Surgery, in my possession, is a small quarto by Dr. Read (dedicated to Thomas, Lord Windsor, who was free of the Barber-Surgeons) and entitled:—
The Chirurgicall Lectures of Tumors and Ulcers delivered on Tuesdayes appointed for these exercises, and keeping of their Courts in the Chirurgeans Hall these three yeeres last past, viz. 1632, 1633 and 1634. By Alexander Read Doctor of Physick, and one of the Fellowes of the Physitians College of London. London 1635.