COLLECTION NAME:
Archbishops' Records
Record
Identifier:
VX IA/10/259
Title:
MOORE (Elizabeth), widow, of Market Harborough, Leics
Subject:
Vicar General
Description:
Letters testimonial signed by Edward Moore, Isaac Laughton, M.A., Richard Mousse, rector of Little Bowden, Leics., and John Howard, rector of Marston Trussell, Northants., 28 Dec. 1689, annotated with fiat of Thomas Pinfold, surrogate, 9 Jan. 1690. Includes certificates of patients' cures from the following illnesses: consumption, distempers, fever, lameness, swooning fitts, the king's evil, (one patient even had been 'twice touched for the Evill, & was blind with it', another was 'blind & disinabled to follow his calling for above a year'), rickets, palsy in the tongue with loss of speech, smallpox, toothache, pleurisy, sore leg so 'that she could neither go nor stand for 14 months', ulcers, various fevers, a sore throat during labour, and a dangerous impostume in the stomach. Thomas Moore certified that she is 'a person of great skill and experience in the practice of physick, very safe in her administrations, & very successfull in the cures of agues, feavers, small pox, measles, toothach & more espeacially the kings-evill, with other diseases incident to the country, and one [from] whome I have often received much good in my severall sicknesses'. Another had made use of 'no other physician for 25 or 26 years, but the said Mrs Moore & with good success'. Patients lived in Harborough and neigbouring parishes in Leicestershire, and in Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, and Rutland
Date:
9 Jan. 1690
Rights:
LPL