The life of Thomas Linacre, Doctor in medicine, physician to King Henry VIII, the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the Royal College of Physicians : With memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, ... from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves.
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- 1835
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Credit: The life of Thomas Linacre, Doctor in medicine, physician to King Henry VIII, the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the Royal College of Physicians : With memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, ... from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![extinct, after a long and uninterrupted line of nine- teen generations. During this time John Linacre eiljoyed the rank of esquire, either by descent or creation, in an age when that honour was esti- mated in proportion to the difficulty of attaining it; and the commission issued, 12 Hen. VI. for inquiring into the names and number of the nobi- lity and gentry of the different shires, returned two of this lineage, as holding the latter rank.* The families, with which their name has been suc- cessively connected, proclaim their importance; and their fortunes were increased by successive marriages with the heiresses of Bralesworth, Glass- well, Hakenthorpe, Bakewell and Plombley. In addition to their possessions at Linacre, they also held other property in the same county; since their arms, in compliance with the usage of pro- prietorship or benefaction, are noted in a window of Beighton church as late as the year A.D. 1569.f William de Linacre held lands in Hampshire of the prior and convent of St. Swythin, at Win- chester, of which he died seised in the fourteenth century.'| Robeit Linacre also, in the sixteenth century, * Fuller’s Worthies, p. 370. t Visitation of Derbyshire, by Richard St. George Norroy, with that made in 1500, enlarged.—Harleian MSS. 1093, 1094.] 1 hese arms were Sable, a chevron between three escalop shells Argent; on a chief Or, three greyhounds’ heads erased, of the field. t F-scheatre sive Inquisitiones postmortem, temp. Edward HI. 15 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21930041_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
