Letter 0362

Peter Barwick to Elizabeth Monck (nee Cavendish), Duchess of Abemarle – September 20, 1690


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Date: September 20, 1690
Author: Peter Barwick
Recipient: Elizabeth Monck (nee Cavendish), Duchess of Abemarle

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 97-98



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The Lord of Bath is proposing a bill related to the contested executorship. Barwick informs the Duchess he asked for Sloane’s counsel and assistance. He will be in London soon to deal with the case. Peter Barwick (1619-1705) was a physician. He served Charles II in 1651 and was censor of the College of Physicians in 1674, 1684, and 1687. Sir Hans Sloane was one of the executors of Barwick’s will (Peter Elmer, ‘Barwick, Peter (1619–1705)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1614, accessed 9 July 2014]).




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