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 London,” 1634.) Each of his two sons was named Peter, of whom the elder left a daughter, wife of Cargill of Aberdeenshire. The younger son was Peter Chamberlaine of London, practitioner in physic, who married Sarah, daughter of William de Laune, doctor in physic. He had many children, of whom the eldest was Dr Peter Chamberlaine, physician to King Charles I. and to King Charles II., who married Jane, daughter of Sir Hugh Middleton, Bart. His son seems to have slightly altered his surname, which in 1664 he signed thus:— “Hugh Chamberlen;” he also was of London, and a doctor of physic : his wife was Dorothy, daughter of John Brett, Esq., of ____ in Kent. His son and successor was Hugh Chamberlain (or Chamberlen), M.D., of Cambridge, (born 1664, died 1728); he was three times married, and had by his first wife one daughter, and by his second wife two daughters. He was a fashionable physician and accoucheur, and a highly successful general practitioner in London, and left a large fortune. He brought Mauriceau’s (the French Physician) Treatise, and his invention of the obstetrical forceps, into notice and use. His monument was provided by Edmund, Duke of Buckingham, and his epitaph by Bishop Atterbury. Mr George Lewis Smith says, that this monument which is in Westminster Abbey, is executed in marble of different colours by P. A. Scheemakers and Laur. Delvaux, and is " of striking effect;" the recumbent statue of the author, and the figures of Health, Longevity, and Fame are all gracefully and success- fully designed and executed.

The following is the epitaph:—