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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    which he was so nearly involved, imbued him with a deep distrust of “ the papistical superstition.” Those unparalleled atrocities planned and carried out under the cegis of the Church of Rome could not fail to kindle in the breast of the young student, then on the threshold of manhood, the intense abhorrence of Romish tenets which clung to him through life. In England the news of the massacre was received with the gravest anxiety and alarm. On September 12, almost immediately after the grim tidings had reached London, Sir Thomas Smith, Elizabeth’s Secretary of State, wrote to Walsingham : “ How fearful and careful the mothers and parents be here of such young Gentle- men as be there [in Paris], you may easily guess by my Lady Lane, who prayeth very earnestly that her son may be sent home with as much speed as may be.” Already the Privy Council had despatched a letter to the Ambas- sador, thanking him for the shelter he had afforded his countrymen, and urging him to advise the latter to return without delay. There is no reason to doubt that Bright followed this wise counsel, and made his way to England as quickly as circumstances would allow ; unless, indeed, he continued his travels into Italy and Germany. It must have been about this period that he visited the wonderful mineral springs at Spa, to which the fashionable folk of Europe were just begin- ning to resort—a visit which, as will be seen, was after- wards turned to good account. At all events, he was back in 1573-74, when he proceeded to the degree of M.B. at Cambridge. In 1575 he became a Licentiate of Medicine, and in 1578-79 a fully-fledged M.D.