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POWELL, Richard

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Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640: Database

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Margaret Pelling, Frances White

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2004

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'POWELL, Richard', Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640: Database (2004). URL: http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=17727 Date accessed: 18 May 2013. Add to my bookshelf

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Richard POWELL
Biography Known London address Censorial hearings

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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