Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton.

  • Carlton, William J. (William John), 1886-1973.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S EVE 30,000 to 70,000. Among the slain was Pierre de la Ramee, the French philosopher, whom Bright praises as “ the restorer of all liberall artes, especially the greatest M[aster] of Logike, and the perfectest practiser of the same, that euer liued before him whilst Antoine Chevallier, whose Hebrew lectures at Cambridge Bright may well have attended, escaped the fury of the mob only to contract a fatal fever in the woods to which he fled, and succumbed before he could reach the shores of England. “ One would have thought,” wrote the late J. E. Bailey,1 “ that the scene at the Embassy would have presented attractions for the inquiry of the historian or the pencil of the painter ; but a few lines only are devoted to it in the most recent and valuable contribution to the subject :2 ‘ Some were saved at the house of the English Ambassador, although a guard had been set over it, as much to keep out refugees as to protect the English who had been hastily collected within its walls.’ ” An earlier historian, however, has deemed Bright’s account of sufficient importance to quote, and in John Strype’s Annals of the Reformation3 it is given due prominence as the testimony of an eye-witness. The events of those awful days probably did more than anything else to determine Bright’s religious principles and strengthen his convictions. In all likelihood, his had been a Pro- testant upbringing, and he had found the Reformation doctrines firmly rooted at Cambridge ; but, above all, the appalling carnage of St. Bartholomew’s Eve, in 1 Phonetic Journal, vol. xxxiv., p. 538 (December 18, 1875). 2 H. White’s Massacre of St. Bartholomew (1868), pp. 443, 444. 3 Vol. ii. (1725), pp. 151, 152.