Bate Family, of Maid's Moreton, Buckinghamshire

Receipt book, containing general medical treatments, many by Dr. [George] Bate (1608-1668) F.R.S. physician to Oliver Cromwell and Charles II.

1665

56 ff. (original pagination 1-116) 1 vol., 195 × 170 mm. Original vellum binding.

Christie's South Kensington, 27 November 1992, lot 99.

The physician George Bate was born in Maid's Moreton, where other branches of the family resided. This volume bears a baptismal note for Esther, daughter of George Bate, minister at Moreton [f. 2v.]. The author would appear to have been a relative of Dr. Bate, therefore, with some personal knowledge of him; one receipt is headed 'Dr. B., for me, May 65' [f. 37r.].

Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.