POWELL, Richard

Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640 Database. Originally published by Centre for Metropolitan History, London, 2004.

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Margaret Pelling, Frances White, 'POWELL, Richard', in Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640 Database( London, 2004), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-physicians/1550-1640/powell-richard [accessed 27 July 2024].

Margaret Pelling, Frances White, 'POWELL, Richard', in Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640 Database( London, 2004), British History Online, accessed July 27, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-physicians/1550-1640/powell-richard.

Margaret Pelling, Frances White. "POWELL, Richard". Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640 Database. (London, 2004), , British History Online. Web. 27 July 2024. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-physicians/1550-1640/powell-richard.

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Richard POWELL

Biography

Name Richard POWELL
Gender Male
Primary occupation non-medical (Pannorum infector 1599. Dyer 1610. BSC 1613-39)
Period of medical practice 1589-1640
Address Grub Street 1599
Other notes Accused 1599, 1610, 1611, 1613, 1630. Master of BSC 1636.

Known London address

Grub Street
Parish St Giles without Cripplegate
Ward Cripplegate (Within & Without)
Date 1599

Censorial hearings

2 Nov 1599
Entry P, of Grub Street, a 'pannorum infector' (dyer of rags or cloths), appeared. He had given a medicine to the wife of a clergyman of St Swithins - a confection of hamech in a decoction of senna. The senna had been prepared by an apothecary but without his prescription or advice. P had given the same medicine to the woman's husband. It was for a stricture of the bowels.
Action taken Fined 40s. and imprisoned.
Verdict guilty
Sentence Fined 40s. and imprisoned
Number of crimes 1
9 Feb 1610
Entry P was summoned but failed to appear.
Attitude of the accused absent
Action taken Failed to appear.
1 June 1610
Entry P, a dyer, was summoned but failed to appear. See E p. 10b.
Attitude of the accused absent
Action taken Failed to appear.
9 Nov 1610
Entry P failed to appear.
Attitude of the accused absent
Action taken Failed to appear.
Verdict case not completed
6 Dec 1611
Entry Richard Powell as he deserved was convicted, fined and imprisoned: namely he was convicted of extreme ignorance in medical practice, was fined £4 and imprisoned until he reformed, at any rate until he promised that he would not practise medicine here in future.
Action taken Fined £4 and imprisoned till he should promise to abstain.
Verdict guilty
Sentence Fined £4 and imprisoned till he should promise to abstain
5 March 1613
Entry Richard Powell, a dyer, was convicted but dismissed until the morrow of Palm Sunday. See E.
Action taken Deferred.
Verdict guilty
Sentence None
7 May 1630
Entry P was accused by Eliz. Sherburne of agreeing to cure a woman with tympanites (dropsy) for £3; the woman died. P said he had been fined 20 years before, and thought that once he had paid he could practise. He confessed to giving hamech and diaphoenicon as a purge.
Action taken Fined £5 and told to return S's 8s.
Verdict guilty
Sentence Fined £5 and to return patient's money
Number of crimes 1
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