Thomas Franks wrote letter 4445 to Sloane. No other information about him is available.
Reference:
Thomas Franks to Hans Sloane, 1734-03-10, Sloane MS 4054, ff. f. 21, British Library, London
William Holmes (1689 – 1748) was an English academic, Vice-Chancellor and Regius Professor of Modern History of the University of Oxford.
Reference:
William Holmes to Hans Sloane, 1735-03-29, Sloane MS 4054, f. 25, British Library, London
James Seyers wrote letter 4457 to Sloane. No other information about him is available.
Reference:
James Seyers to Hans Sloane, 1732-04-09, Sloane MS 4054, f. 30, British Library, London
John Amman wrote letter 4458 to Sloane. No other information about him is available.
Reference:
John Amman to Hans Sloane, Unknown Date, Sloane MS 4054, f. 32, British Library, London
William Burton wrote letter 4462 to Sloane but no other information is available about him.
Reference:
William Burton to Hans Sloane, 1732-04-16, Sloane MS 4052, f. 96, British Library, London
In order to treat an unnamed illness the writer engaged in an exercise regimen, relaxed from his business, and took air, exercise and the waters at Bath.
He felt that he was twice as healthy as when he first came to Bath.
Massey sends ‘a small bottle of the Oleu sinapious ine igne’. He is going to meet ‘Mr Dixon at the Greyhound in Cornhill’ and ask that he deliver a sample of the product to Dr Mead. Massey plans on visiting Sloane soon. Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).
In order to treat an unnamed illness the writer engaged in an exercise regimen, relaxed from his business, and took air, exercise and the waters at Bath.
He felt that he was twice as healthy as when he first came to Bath.
[fol. 143] George R Our Will and pleasure is, that you prepare a Bill for Our Royal Signature to pass Our Great Seal, Containing Our Grant of the Dignity of a Baronett of this Our Kingdom of Great Britain Unto Our Trusty and Welbeloved Hans Sloane of Chelsey in Our County of Midlesex Doctor of Physick. To have hold and enjoy the same unto him the said Hans Sloane and the heires Males of his body Lawfully begotten together with all Rights Precendencies Priviledges & Advantages to the said Dignity of Baronet of this Our Kingdom belonging or Appertaining and with such Clauses as are Usualy containd in a Baronet’s Patents And for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given at Our Court at St. James’s the 23d day of March 1715/6 in the second year of Our Reign. By his Ma:tie’s Comand Townshend To Our Trusty & Welbeloved Our Attorney Generall.
Warrant for creating Sir Hans Sloane a Baronet.
[fol. 278] Kensington. July. 17th. 1714. S’r Out Churchwardens being inform’d that I was known to you, a few days since acquainted me, that, Letters upon Mr. Courten’s Monument are so defac’d by violent showers of Rain, that the words cannot be read. That they were very faulty some years agoe, I do well remember, but how they are now I cannot tell, [having not been in the Church or Yard, nor out at my Street door since last September] The reason of their being so soon decay’d, I beleeve was, because the Letters at first were not cut deep enough to contain a sufficient quantity of that Matter; with which they were fill’d, for the better resisting of such weather as would dammage them. That I have comply’d with our Churchwardens request in mentioning the badness of their condition upon their information, I hope you will pardon me. If you think it fit, that what’s amiss should be rectify’d, for the more easy reading thereof by the Person you employ to renew the worn out Letters, a Copy of the Inscription is herewith sent to you by S’r Your much obliged, & faithfull servant, Charles Seward. My true respects, & humble service to yourself and Madam Sloane.
Seward informs Sloane that ‘Mr Courten’s Monument’ was in need of refurbishing due to weather damage. He asks Sloane to consider the situation, providing him with a transcription of the inscription, in an attempt to secure his sympathy.
Charles Seward (d.1716), clerk of Kensington. (Thomas Faulkner & B. West, History and Antiquities of Kensington, London: 1820, pp. 274).