The last will and testament, with the inventory of the estate, of Maister Peter Lowe, founder of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow / by James Finlayson.

  • Finlayson, James, 1840-1906.
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[1898]
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Credit: The last will and testament, with the inventory of the estate, of Maister Peter Lowe, founder of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow / by James Finlayson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    .Reprintedfrom the -Glasgow Medical Journal for October, 1898.] IHE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, WITH THE INVEN- TORY OF THE ESTATE, OF MAISTER PETER LOWE, FOUNDER OF THE FACULTY OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, CxLASGOW. By JAMES FINLAYSON, M.D., Honorary Librarian to the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. When I published An Account of the Life and Works of Maister Peter Loive (Glasgow, 1889), I had to leave the date of his death uncertain; at that time no trace of his will had been found While searching the Commissariat of Glasgow, Testaments, Vol. 7, for some other purpose, Mr A. W. Gray Buchanan noticed, about two years ago, the will of the founder of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and he kindly directed my attention to it. A transcript of the MS. was easily obtained from the Register House, Edinburgh. It is headed The Testament Testamentar, latter will and Inventar of the guidis and geir perteining to vmquhile Mr. Petir Low doctour chyrurgin within the towne of _Gla.sgow quha deceist upoun the fyftein day of August the zeir of God j™ vj*^ and ten zeiris. This, then, fixes the date of his death beyond all doubt; but the confusion which beset former inquiries still haunts us. When we were disposed to trust to the Index Funereus of the Surgeons of Paris, which gave his death as occurring on 30th June, 1617, we subsequently discovered that his widow was married again about two years before his death! For the date of this marriage there were clear records. Now that we know that he died on 15th August, 1610, we are con- fronted witli the difficulty that he died more than two years before he wrote the preface to the second edition of his Ghyrurgerie! His preface, he states, is given from my house in Glasgow, the 20. day of December in the yeare of our Lord God. 1612, and it is signed with his own name. The explanation is, no doubt, to be sought in the MS. of the