r,
Thomas was "consoled" and "comforted," and "induced to remain in the
country," by the united persuasions of the Lord Deputy, the Counsellors
of State, and the whole army. The consolation was administered in the
form of a concordat, dated April 25th, 1566, by which an annual stipend
was settled on him, the whole army agreeing to give him one day's pay,
and every Counsellor of State twenty shillings, "by reason of his long
contynuance here, and his often and chardgeable provision of druggs and
other apothecarie wares, which have, from tyme to tyme, layen and
remained in manner for the most part unuttered; for the greater part of
this contray folke ar wonted to use the mynisterie of their leeches and
such lyke, and neglecting the apothecarie's science, the said Thomas
thereby hath been greatly hyndered, and in manner enforced to abandon
that his faculty."[530] It was only natural that the English settler
should distrust the _leeche_ who gathered his medicines on the hillside
by moonlight, "who invoked the fairies and consulted witches;" and it
was equally natural that the native should distrust the Saxon, who could
kill or cure with those magical little powders and pills, so
suspiciously small, so entirely unlike the traditionary medicants of the
country. In a list still preserved of the medicines supplied for the use
of Cromwell's army, we may judge of the "medicants" used in the
seventeenth century. They must have been very agreeable, for the
allowance of sugar, powder and loaf, of "candie," white and brown, of
sweet almonds and almond cakes, preponderates wonderfully over the
"rubarcke, sarsaparill, and aloes."[531] Mr. Richard Chatham was
Apothecary-General, and had his drugs duty free by an order, dated at
"ye new Customs' House, Dublin, ye 24th of June, 1659."

Dr. William Bedell was the first who suggested the foundation of a
College of Physicians. On the 15th of April, 1628, he wrote to Usher
thus: "I suppose it hath been an error all this while to neglect the
faculties of law and physic, and attend only to the ordering of one poor
college of divines." In 1637 a Regius Professor of Physic was nominated.
In 1654 Dr. John Stearne was appointed President of Trinity Hall, which
was at this time set apart "for the sole and proper use of physicians;"
and, in 1667, the physicians received their first charter from Charles
II. The new corporation obtained the title of "The President and College
of Physicians." It consist