On this day in 1749 the Court ordered that the Company’s Arms be “cast in lead and affixed upon the several houses” it owned. The Company had Barber-Surgeons’ Hall and several houses on Monkwell Street together with property in other parts of London. Account books in the Company’s archive record the rents collected by the […]
On this day in 1604, the Clerk and the Middle Warden were each ordered to bestowe 4d worth of herbs and flowers every Court day. From the middle ages herbs and sweet smelling flowers were strewn on floors of houses and other buildings along with reeds, rushes, or straw, to mask the unpleasant smells emanating […]
On this day in 1637, £10 was paid towards the ransom of the surgeon Thomas Wright who had been captured by the Turks. Presumably Wright was a surgeon on board a ship. The charter granted to the Company in 1629 stated that all surgeons for the Navy were to be examined and approved by the […]