Notes to Pages 90–101 • 319- All this information is from Hailstone, “If on a Sudden.”
- Richard Baxter,Reliquiae Baxterianae(London, 1696 ), 3 : 2.
- Anne Stavely to the countess of Huntingdon, Aug. 7 , 1665 , HL HA 12673.
- Sir James Langham to the countess of Huntingdon, Aug. 16 , 1665 , HL HA 8126.
- On Dryden, see Bell,The Great Plague, 255 , and Winn,John Dryden and His
World, 158 – 59. - Don M. Wolfe,Milton and His England(Princeton, 1971 ), 108.
40 .Surrey Quarter Sessions Records: The Order Books and Session Rolls, Easter 1663 –
Epiphany 1666 ,ed. Dorothy L. Powell and Hilary Jenkison (Surrey Record Society),
16 : 70. - Peter Barwick to William Sancroft, Aug. 5 , 1665 ; John Tillison to Sancroft, Aug.
15 , 1665 ; BL Harleian MS 3845 , esp. fols. 25 – 26 , 31. - John Moore, London, to Charles Moore at Little Appleby, Leicestershire, June
19 , 1665 , Wellcome Institute Library (WIL) MS 7382 / 3. We thank Richard Aspin for
making this extraordinary document available to us on its acquisition in 1994 and
Christopher Hilton for his kind assistance in deciphering the letter. The other John
Moore papers, at the Guildhall Library of London, contain no other letters by him
among the correspondence and financial accounts. On his death, Biographical Notes
File on Sir John Moore, CLRO. - Patrick,Works, 9 : 442 – 43.
44 .Pepys,Diary, 6 : 133 – 34 , 149.
Chapter 5. The Medical Marketplace
- A mountebank is literally someone on a mounted bench; colloquially, a seller of
quack medicines from a platform, attracting a crowd with tricks and tales. - Roy Porter,Quacks(Charleston, S.C., 1989 , 2001 ), 11. For Catholic European views
on this subject, see Alison Klairmont Lingo, “Empirics and Charlatans in Early Mod-
ern France: The Genesis of the Classification of the ‘Other’ in Medical Practice,”Jour-
nal of Social History 19 ( 1986 ): 583 – 603. - Wear,Knowledge and Practice, 37 , 38 , 23.
- Porter,Quacks, 35 ; Wear,Knowledge and Practice, 210 – 13 ;Pepys,Diary, 4 : 59 – 60.
- Wear,Knowledge and Practice, 23 – 24.
- On the training of unlicensed health-care providers, see Margaret Pelling,
“Knowledge Common and Acquired: The Education of Unlicensed Medical Practi-
tioners in Early Modern London,” in The History of Medical Education in Britain,ed.
Vivian Nutton and Roy Porter (Amsterdam, 1995 ), 250 – 79. Quotation from Hodges,
Loimologia, 21. - The breadth of Willis’s medical perspective is reexamined by Wear,Knowledge and
Practice, 469 – 72. - Thomas Cocke,Kitchin Physick: Or, Advice to the Poor(London, 1676 ), 18 – 19.
- On Lady Mary Luckyn, daughter of the keeper of the seals, Sir Harbottle Grim-
ston, see J. H. Round, “Some Essex Family Correspondence in the Seventeenth Cen-