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The reign of Louis XIV. over France and Navarre began on 14th May 1643, and continued until 1st September 1715. We may therefore say that the period between his accession and the first year of the dragonnades (1681) was the first half of his reign. If we calculate his reign from his accession, the period is rather more than a half; it is rather less than a half if we begin with the year (1651) when he was declared to be of age.  

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, who had been made Doctor of Physic at Caen in Normandy, on 27th October 1634, 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. On the 23rd of the same month he was admitted a candidate of the [Royal] College of Physicians of London. His published writings were — (1) “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 Fiance, &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