Volume 1
Gilbert, physician : a note prepared for the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of William Gilbert of Colchester, president of the Royal college of physicians, & physician to Queen Elizabeth / by Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S.
- Silvanus P. Thompson
- Date:
- [1903]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Gilbert, physician : a note prepared for the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of William Gilbert of Colchester, president of the Royal college of physicians, & physician to Queen Elizabeth / by Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![pofe in beftowing an annual penfion upon him was to encourage him in his ftudies (a ftatement derived from Fuller), is alfo open to queftion. The patent-roll recording his appointment is in the Record Office, and is thus entered in the Cal¬ endar: “43 'Eliz, 21 Apr. [1601-2] Wm. Gilbert qffic. unus medicor^ ad vit. Pr. S.’’ The patent-roll itfelf has been examined. It fets out the appointment, with emolument “ centum libros,” to be paid on the feafts of the Annuncia¬ tion, St. John Baptift, St. Michael and All Angels, and the Nativity, and is for the term of his natural life. It is near the beginning of the roll and occu¬ pies about fix or feven inches of the parchment. The name “William Gilbert” is in the margin. One hundred pounds per annum appears to have been the regular ftipend of each of the Queen’s phyficians in ordinary, though not the invariable amount. For inftance the following are found in Burghley's Notes of the Reign of Elizabeth (Murdin’s Burghley’s State Papers): Page 800, 1592, December; “ Richard Smith, Dr in Phyfick, admitted to be the Queen’s ordinary Phylition, with 100/. per annum.” Page 806, 1594, October; “ Dr. James appointed Phifition to the Q. Houfehold, with the Fee of 50/. per annum.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31344835_0001_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
