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Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640 Database. Originally published by Centre for Metropolitan History, London, 2004.

Citation:

Margaret Pelling, Frances White, 'WAMSELEY, Robert', in Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640 Database( London, 2004), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-physicians/1550-1640/wamseley-robert [accessed 31 October 2024].

Robert WAMSELEY

Biography


Name	Robert WAMSELEY (WALMESLEY, WALMISLEY, WALMSLEY)
Gender	Male
Primary occupation	medical physician (university education) (Physician. ?Albany Hall 1616 (but no University record))
Period of medical practice	1581-1623
Date of death	1623
Address	Staying in Drury Lane 1616. ?Ipswich later (d1623)
Other notes	Summoned 1591. Examined & rejected 1595. Accused 1616. Raach p.248 (not Venn, apparently). PCC Letters of Adm.

Known London address


	Drury Lane
Date	1616

Censorial hearings


	22 July 1591
Entry	W was summoned.
Attitude of the accused	absent
Action taken	Summoned.
	5 Nov 1591
Entry	W was summoned.
Attitude of the accused	absent
Action taken	Summoned.
Verdict	case not completed
	25 July 1595
Entry	W was asked to give definitions of disease. He claimed to have read Hippocrates' Aphorisms and De Usu Partium. He did not know the Galenic rules about purging, or 'condition' of the body. He gave his version of certain Galenic doctrines. He was asked to show his letters from the Councillors, but he was not accepted and was bound on penalty of £40 not to practice.
Attitude of the accused	asked for College membership
Action taken	Rejected after examination. Bound for £40 not to practise.
Verdict	guilty
Sentence	Bound for £40 not to practise. Rejected as Collmem
	3 May 1616
Entry	Mr. Walmesley, Master of Arts (as he said) from Albany Hall, staying 'in Drury Lane, vrged with practise on Mr. Morvin, Lady Davis, Lady and Lucie Griffin,' of whom it was said one had died because he had let her blood four times in the same day. He said he had only taken 4 oz, once. He said that the disease was a pleurisy from blood and convulsion. The College said that the proper term was 'revulsion'. He confessed that a few drugs had been given to Mr. Mervin, for which thirty pounds had been paid to the apothecary.
Initiator of the complaint	patient
Second initiator of the complaint	patient
Third initiator of the complaint	patient
Attitude of the accused	confessed
Action taken	Warned not to practise and told he would be re-summoned if he did.
Verdict	guilty
Sentence	Warned not to practise