Ryght worschypfull Master, y recommaunde me onto you, doyng yow to wete that Master Malyverer hath take an accyon off a Counte agayn your bayly off Ermyngton by the informacyon off on Sowche, chere clerke onto the sayde Master Malyverer, and thay wolde compell your bayly to acounte wyth the sayde Scherve off the mercement wythyn your hunderd and to compell your bayly to geder the mercement wythyn the sayde hunderd: and that was never don hebeffore: therfore y be|seche your Masterschyp to se the mene at thys terme, that y may be dyschargyd off thys accyon that ys agayn me, and off the whyche mater Thomas Mathew can infourme yow, for he hath byn your bayly afore thys tyme. Y-wrytyn att Ermyngton by your bayly,
Rychard Drewe.
Thys byll be deliveryd onto my Master, Syr Wyllyam Stoner, in hast.
271. WILLIAM GOLDWYN TO JOHN BYRELL 12 JUNE [1480]
The prescriptions were most probably intended for the second Lady Stonor, and the year will then be 1480. In printing the prescriptions it has seemed best to mark the expansions by the use of italic letters; "ana" represents the Greek … (to the amount of), which is still used in modern prescriptions in the form āā.; "epatice" is either the common liverwort or the hepatica; "olorum" is presumably an error for "oleorum"; "cicomorum" means wild figs; "manus Christi" is apparently a drug, but does not seem to be identifiable; "acedule" is also obscure. "℞," of course, stands for "Recipe".
William Goldwyn, in his will dated 2 June, 1482 (P.C.C., 5 Logge), de|scribes himself as "maister of art and Bacheller of fesyk"; he directed that he should be buried in the Chapel of the Hospital of St. Thomas Acon, to which he bequeathed all his "books of fesyk to be chayned in the common Library for evermore". John Berell, "apotecary," was one of his executors. The will was proved on 8 June, 1482. John Berell, grocer, occurs in 1473 and 1487, and John Berell, junior, apothecary, in 1472 (Letter Book, L. 103, 113, 244). See also vol. i, p. xlv above. From A.C., xlvi, 261.
