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Barber-Surgeons' Company: material collected by Sir D'Arcy Power (1855-1941)

Volume 1

Index to the Volume, by Sir D'Arcy Power

Three A.l.s. to Power from Sidney Young (1843-1914), dated 6/8/1912, 19/8/1912, 24/8/1914, relating to the collection

List of Sea-Surgeons, 1707-1719, transcribed by Young from 'an old Register remaining at Barber's Hall about 12 years ago'. Dated August 1912

Andrewes, Michael. Contemporary copy of a letter to Thomas Earl of Arundel, complaining of the insulting conduct of a fellow Barber Surgeon, one Richard Morris

Memorandum of a lease granted to the Prioress of St. Helens, Bishopsgate (A.D. 1536), and later willed to Judith Howe, wife of Edward Longe of Hatfield Peverill. Original document

Original letter to the Master and Wardens of the Barber Surgeons calling for the names and addresses of all Members of the Company, dated 13/7/1641

A similar original letter, dated 24/7/1641

Original order to pay a fine directed to John Lufkyn, a Barber Surgeon, dated 19/1/1642

Pile, Richard ( -1674)

Pile, Richard ( -1671)

Hester, Robert

Spooner, John

Contemporary copy of the Certificate granted by the Parliamentary Commissioners for Dr. Peter Gelsthorp (1661-1719) to attend the Sick and Wounded at Deal. Dated 10/3/1692

Original cancelled receipts from the Barber Surgeon's Company to the Commissioners of Health for the Navy in respect of payments made

Pinder, Alexander

Drafts of a Petition from the Barber Surgeons to the House of Commons that they may not be hampered by the Royal College of Physicians in the administration of medicines: with copies of extract from the Charter, etc.

Order from the Navy Office on procedure in cases of Wounds and Sickness

Original letters, and copies of other Correspondence in the dispute between the Barber Surgeons and the Navy Office concerning the Examination of Sea-Surgeons, including the case of Alexander Gordon

Shaw, J.

Skelton, William (1696-1764)

Draft of a Petition to the King from the Barber-Surgeons to be given a File of Guards in order to secure a body from Tyburn

Hawkins, Thomas

South, John Flint (1797-1882)

Shoppee, Charles John (1824-1897)

Ellis, Ernest C.

Young, S.

Saint Bartholomew's Hospital

Printed forms of Notices of Courts of the Barber-Surgeons

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Printed forms of Notices of Courts of the Barber-Surgeons

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