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 S. Scripturae juxta numerorum ordinem qui extant in Bibliothecâ Bodleianâ, 4to., 2d. edit., Oxford, 1635. (2) Elenchus authorum tam recentium quam antiquorum, qui in quatuor libros Sententiarum et Thomae Aquinatis Summas — item in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni [the extracts from the Gospels accompanying the Prayer-Book Collects], et de Casibus Conscientiae, necnon in Orationem Dominican, Symbolum Apostolorum et Decalogum, scripserunt. Printed with Catologus Interpretum, 1635. (3) Nomenclator of such Tracts and Sermons as have been printed and translated into English, upon any place or book of the Holy Scripture, now to be had in Bodley’s Library, 12mo., Oxford, 1637-42. (4) He translated from French into English, a Tract of the Sovereign Judge of Controversies in matters of religion, by John Cameron, D.D., of Saumur, Divinity Professor in the University of Montauban, afterwards Principal of Glasgow, 4to., Oxford, 1628. (5) He translated from English into Latin a book entitled, Of the deceitfulness of man’s heart, by Daniel Dyke of Cambridge, Geneva, 1634. The said John Verneuil died in his house within and near the East-gate of the city of Oxford, and was buried on 30th September, 1647. in the church of St. Peter-in-the-East, at which time our public library lost an honest and useful servant, and his children a good father” — [aged 64].

1625-6. (of York diocese). Licentiate of Civil Law of the University of Orleans, was incorporated at Oxford as Bachelor of Law. [In 1680 William Levet was D.D. of Oxford; in 1681, Principal of Magdalen Hall; and, on 10th January, 1685, Dean of Bristol. The Dean’s brother was Sir Richard Levet, Lord Mayor of London in 1699].

, having spent seven years in the study of medicine in the University of Caen in Normandy, entered Pembroke College, Oxford, and took the Degree of Bachelor of Physic in 1631. Another Frenchman, William Manouvrier, styled Dominus de Pratis, was admitted to practise surgery. This is the last entry under the reign of Charles I.

During the Commonwealth we observe several eminent medical men asking and obtaining incorporation in Oxford University.

1648-9. March 8. , alias Lompré, sometime of the University of Caen, in Normandy, was created Doctor of Physic by virtue of the Chancellor’s [Earl of Pembroke’s] letters, which say that “his affections to the cause of the parliament have exposed him to sufferings He is a Protestant of France, and his quality and sufferings have been made known to me by persons of honour, gentlemen of quality, and physicians of this kingdom, as also by one Mr John Despaigne, one of the French Ministers of London, &c.”

1655. Dec. 13. of Sedan, a young man of great hopes and learning, son of John Lambermont of the same place, and Doctor of Physic of the University of Valence. His diploma for the taking of that degree at Valence bears date 8th March, 1651. Under the name of Lambermontius is extant ''Anthologia Graec. Lat.'' Lond. 1654. Query if by him ?

1656-7. March 10. The most famous and learned, of Paris, made Doctor of Physic at Caen in Normandy twenty years before this time, was incorporated here in the same degree, not only upon sight of his testimonial letters (which abundantly speak his worth), subscribed by the King of France’s Ambassador in England (to whom he was domestic physician), but upon sufficient knowledge had of his great merits, his late relinquishing the Roman Church, and zeal for that of the Reformed. This person, who was one of the College of Physicians of London, hath written (i) Angliae Flagellum, seu Tabes Angliae. Lond., 1647. [A medical book on the Plague.] (2) The admirable virtues and wonderful effects of the true and genuine Tincture of Coral in Physic, grounded by reason, established by experience, and confirmed by authentical authors in all ages. Lond., 1676. He also translated into English “The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to K. Henry II., Fran. II, and Cha. IX., Kings of France, &c.” Lond., 1672, folio. He died poor, and in an obscure condition, in Covent Garden, within the Liberty of Westminster, occasioned by the unworthy dealings of a certain knight, which,