noscendo Regiam suprema potestatem in causis
ecclesiasticis & temporalibus ac de renunciando, refutando, & recusando
omni, & omnimodae jurisdictioni potestati, authoritati & superioritati
foraneis juxta vim formam & effectum statui Parliamenti hujus inclyti
Regni Angliae in ea parte editi & provisi quantum nobis per statuta hujus
Regni Angliae liceat & non aliter neque alio modo te admittimus &
approbamus, tibique Licentiam & Facultatem nostras in hac parte, tenore
praesentium quamdiu te bene & laudabiliter gesseris benigne concedimus &
elargimur. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum (quo in hac parte utimur)
praesentibus apponi fecimus. Dat. undecimo die mensis Octobris, Anno
Domini 1670. Nostraeque translationis Anno Octavo.
Sigillum
Radulph. Snowe }
ET } Registrarii.
Edm. Sherman }
S. Rich. Lloyd, Sur.
'Vicarii in Spiritualibus Generalis per Provinciam Cantuariensem.'
Hereupon he began to practise more openly, and with good success; and
every Saturday rode to Kingston, where the poorer sort flocked to him
from several parts, and received much benefit by his advice and
prescriptions, which he gave them freely, and without money. From those
that were more able, he now and then received a shilling, and sometimes
an half crown, if they offered it to him, otherwise he demanded nothing;
and, in truth, his charity towards poor people was very great, no less
than the care and pains he took in considering and weighing their
particular cases, and applying proper remedies to their infirmities,
which gained him extraordinary credit and estimation.
He was of a strong constitution, and continued generally in good health,
till the 16th of August 1674, when a violent humour discovered itself in
red spots all over his body, with little pushes in his head. This, in
the winter (18 December) following, was seconded by a distemper whereof
he fell sick, and was let blood in the left foot, a little above the
ancle.
The 20th of December following, a humour descended from his head to his
left side, from eight o'clock at night till the next morning; and then
staying a while in the calf of his leg, at length descended towards his
toes, the anguish whereof put him into a fever. This humour fixed in two
places on the top of his left foot (one in that where he was let blood
two days before) which (upon application of pledgets) growing ripe, they
were (28 Dec.) lanced by Mr. Agar of Kingston,
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