Dr. Walter Bayley and his works, 1529-1592 / by D'Arcy Power.

  • Power, D'Arcy, Sir, 1855-1941.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Dr. Walter Bayley and his works, 1529-1592 / by D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    probavit quoniam solidse partes non poterant liumec- tari.” Dr. Bayley was collated Prebend of Dulcott in the Church of Wells on August 30th, 1572, and resigned his prebendship in 1579. Thomas Bayley, also from Portisham, Dorset, and a Fellow of New College from 1534 until 1552, was Treasurer of Bath and Wells in 1560, and again in 1564. A search at the Record Office shows that Dr. Walter Bayley was appointed “ medic us ordinarius ad vitam ” to Queen Elizabeth on December 1st, 1581 (xxiii Eliz.). In 1578 a lease of Stanlake, in the County of Oxford, was granted him by the Queen for twenty-one years. In the following year he was negotiating leases with the crown, in which Corpus, Lincoln, and Magdalen Colleges at Oxford were also interested. On June 28th, 1590, there is an entry of “ purchase by Dr. Bailie, one of Her Majesty’s Physicians in Ordinary, of lands of the yearly value of £27 8s. 0\d., for which he is to pay £715 9s. 4\d. to Her Majesty.” Bayley was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians of London about the year 1581. He was named an Elect June 10th, 1584, and Consiliarius 1588. He died March 3rd, 1592, and was buried in the antechapel of New College, Oxford, where, under a brass in the floor representing an old man in a gown with hands erect, he is commemorated in the following lines : “ Grualterus tumulo dormit Bailseus in isto, Cui Doricastrensis patria fundus erat. Wicchamicis didicit juvenis quam sumptibus artem, Grandior lianc lector regius edocuit. Fama virum evexit, Regina accivit ad Aulam Jungeret ut Medicis Elizabetha suis : Haec tria lustra egit longe illustrissimus, amplo Et celebri, quantum dat medicina loco. Charus erat multis, dum vita manebat, et idem Deflendus multis vita ubi fugit erat. Obiit 30 Martii anno salutis Humanae MCCCCCLXXXXII setatis suse 63. Posuit G-ulilielmus Bailey filius Amoris et pietatis monument uni.