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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. vm. DEC. 13, 1913.

DR. WILLIAM QUARTERMAIN, PHY-

SICIAN TO CHARLES (US. viii. 370.)

II.

UNDER date 24 May, 1660, Pepys writes :

" Up, and made myself as fine as I could with the linning stockings and wide canons that I bought the other day at Hague. Extraordinary press of noble company, and great mirth all the day. There dined with me in my cabin (that is the carpenter's) Dr. Earle and Mr. Hollis, the King's Chaplains, Dr. Scarborough, Dr. Quarterman, and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, Mr. Darcy and Mr. Fox (both very fine gentlemen), the King's servants, where we had brave discourse."

The above paragraph was written while Pepys and others were anchored off the coast of Holland,waiting to convey Charles II. to England at the time of the Restoration.

Dr. Quartermain is not mentioned in the has any memoir of him been compiled. The following brief account of him is, therefore, offered to the readers of ' N. & Q.'
 * D.N.B.,' nor, as far as can be ascertained,

The uncommon surname Quartermain is said by Bardsley (' British Surnames ') to be of Norman origin, and to indicate a very strong man that is, a' man with four hands. This idea is illustrated in the family arms,

He seems to have been the unlucky pos- sessor of sea-washed lands, for the State Papers of 6 Nov., 1664, contain a petition from him stating that 300 acres of land, called Gatcombe Haven, near Portsmouth, had been recovered from the sea at too great a cost, and asking for another grant of land, the cultivation of which would enable him to reimburse himself for his loss. He was elected M.P. for New Shoreham in 1662, retaining that seat until his death (Blue-book).

He seems to have been twice married, his second wife (whom he married either at St. Margaret's, Westminster, or in the Abbey itself, in 1662) being Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Dyke of Horeham, co. Sussex (Chester's ' London Marriage Licences ' and Burke's ' Landed Gentry ').

Dr. Quartermain died in June, 1667, and is buried at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.

S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D.

[MR. W. NORMAN thanked for reply.]

Gules, a fesse between four The change of spelling from

which are

hands or.

the Norman " Quatremayne " to the English

Quartermaine took place, says Bardsley, in

the reign of Richard II.

William Quartermain was born in 1618, being the son of Walter Quartermain of Shavington, Bucks, a member of the old Quartermain family of Bucks and Oxoii (Lipscomb's ' Buckinghamshire ').

In the year 1634 he matriculated at Oxford (Brazenose College), but afterwards moved to Pembroke, as a member of which he graduated M.D. in 1657 (Foster's 'Alumni ').

At the Royal College of Physicians he came before the Censors' board for exami- nation 4 Dec., 1657, and 8 Jan., 1657/8, and was approved on both occasions. He did not appear on the third examination, and was never admitted a member of the College. This was probably owing to his being engaged in his professional capacity with the fleet (Hunk's ' Roll of the Royal College of Physicians '). He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society. He was gazetted a Physician-in-Ordinary to Charles II. in August, 1661 (State Papers, Domestic Series).

THOMAS BURBIDGE AND OTHER POETS (US. viii. 428). 1. Thomas Burbidge was son of Thomas Burbidge of Leicester. He was born 10 March, 1816 ; educ. Rugby, Rep ton, and Trin. Coll., Camb., B.A. 1842, LL.D. Aberdeen ; was Canon of Gibraltar 1868 to his death at Colle Salvetti, near Pisa, 26 Sept., 1892.

2. John Laurens Bicknell was an attorney at 25, Abingdon Street, Westminster. He was elected F.R.S. 8 March, 1821, and died at Dover 3 Aug., 1845, aged 59.

3. Rev. Theodore Shurt, M.A., was born at Stourbridge 1809 ; educ. at Sedbergh School, and 'St. John's, Peterhouse, and Christ's Colleges, Cambridge ; lived at Leamington ; probably died 1878, as his name is not in Clergy List later.

4. Rev. William Way was third son of Benjamin Way of Denham Place, L T xbridge. He was educated at Eton and Ch. Ch., Oxford ; was Rector of Denham and Hedgerley, Bucks, 1797 to his death in Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London,

12 Aug., 1845, aged 72.

FREDERIC BOASE.

1. There is a short notice of Thomas Burbidge in that useful work of reference, Mr. Frederic Boase's ' Modern English Bio- graphy,' vol. iv. (Supplement, vol. i.) ; He was at one time head master of Leamington College, and afterwards Vicar of Hexton,