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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    some four years, resigning early in 1585. It must be remembered that the office of physician, as in the case of all other places of emolument in the hospital, was granted in reversion, on the “ decease or other departure ” of the actual holder ; and thus we find Bright applying for the post while Turner was still in office. At a meeting of the governors held on Septem- ber 20, 1584, the following was entered on the minutes : “ This daye Timothy Bright Doctor of Phisicke brought Sr ffrauncis walsinghames letter to this courte for the havinge of the rome and place of mr doctor Tornr when he shall depte. And offereth to serve and practise vppon the poore of this house in Phisicke vntill such time as the same mr D[r], Tornr shall depte. Order is therfore taken by this courte, that yf the said Timothye Bright will practise Phisick on the poore of this house, till mr D[r], Tornr shall depte at his owne charge without any fee for the same to be paid by this house, that then yf the said mr Timothy Bright shalbe found fitt and meete for the rome, that then he shall have the same rome with house and fee therto belong- inge so longe as he shall well and honestlye behave him selfe in the same Rome.”1 Here, then, is clear evidence that the influence of Sir Francis Walsingham, to whom he was under so heavy a debt of gratitude already, was primarily re- sponsible for Bright’s election to this desirable post; although, as will presently appear, Lord Burghley and Sir Walter Mildmay—Elizabeth’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Treasurer of the Royal Household, and a Privy Councillor—were likewise instrumental in securing 1 St. Bartholomew’s MS. Journal, no. 2, fol. 223.