Katie Potter's List: Sir Hans Sloane research

• • A letter from Sir Hans Sloane
• From Hans Sloane in London to Lady Mordaunt at Walton
  The doctor advises Lady Mordaunt that Sir John cannot safely take a purge at the moment. He thinks Sir John took rhubarb too soon after his fever. His remedy for stomach ache is pearls, crabs' eyes or crabs' claws powder, half a dram at a time two or three times a day with asses' milk in the morning and a good large draught of Bath water (warmed) in the afternoon and before going to bed.
  He then turns to Lady Mordaunt's health and thinks the pain in her back comes from her kidneys; for this he prescribes a little syrup of marshmallows.

• • Letters from Lord Montague (Montague House) to Sir Hans Sloane - BL collection references
• 1699: letters to Sir Hans SloaneRepositoryBritish Library, Manuscript Collections Record ReferenceSloane 4037 ff.311, 4060 ff.1-11 Other referencesee Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995

• trying to read documents written in an old   and unfamiliar style of handwriting.

   

  Be prepared to tackle an old document letter by letter if necessary.
• • Interchangeable u and v,  such as euer = ever. vnto = unto
   
  • Long 's'. Don't get long s and f mixed  up. The 'f' will have a cross stroke, even if it's hardly  noticeable, and the context will make it clear whether  it is a long 's' or an 'f'. Writers would often use both  long and short 's', sometimes even in the same word.

• • Sloane repeatedly urging parliament to restrict the distilling and sale of gin - causing great misery in London - link to gin lane. 
• Sydenham, then the most famous physician in London
• find some new specific remedies comparable in value to the newly-introduced quinine.
• (he was eventually a governor of nearly every hospital in London),
• classification of his collection
• Queen Anne's physician in 1712
• In the College, he was associated with a movement to establish a Dispensary to sell cost-price medicines to the poor, and during his Presidency, he repeatedly urged Parliament to restrict the distilling and sale of gin, which was causing great misery in London; the first of the Gin Acts was eventually passed in 1736.
• Sloane was associated with Captain Coram in the foundation of the Foundling Hospital and for years gave his services free as physician to Christ's Hospital.
• In 1693 Sloane was appointed one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society, which at that time involved personal responsibility for the publication of the Philosophical Transactions.
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• • Letters from Samuel Pepys to Sir Hans SLoane

• Lady Rachel’s father had begun the development of Bloomsbury in the 1660s.  First he had built for his own occupation Southampton House, a large mansion on a site called the Long Field.  Around the sides of the open space before it he had let plots for building a residential square, emulating the 4^th Earl of Bedford’s development in Covent Garden, though without a church.  Bloomsbury Square (at first called Southampton Square) was the result.  Great Russell Street was laid out to connect the house and Square with Tottenham Court Road.  

   

   

   

  Thus, when Lady Rachel married Lord William, her father’s ‘little town’ was already begun and formed a welcome addition to the Bedford Estates.  Lord William was one of the leaders of the political struggle to secure the Protestant succession to the throne.  After he was implicated in the Rye House Plot, he was convicted of treason and beheaded in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1683, but his widow remained in Bloomsbury and continued its development and management.  In 1688, after James II had fled the country, William and Mary ascended the throne and established the Protestant succession.  In recognition of Lord William’s great sacrifice, his father, the 5^th Earl, was created Marquess of Tavistock and 1^st Duke of Bedford in 1694.