334 The Ancient Styles and Designations of Persons. 
Master Docror or Mr. Docror. 
In Mr. Jardine’s “ Reading on the use of Torture in England,” 
are instances of this style. In the Books of the Privy Council, 
under the date of May 18, 1558, is a letter to (among others) “ Mr. 
Doctor Marten,” to torture French, a prisoner in the Tower.! And 
under the date of July 30, 1581, is a letter to (among others) Dr. 
Hammond, to torture Campion, a Jesuit. In the postscript he is 
styled ‘“ Mr. Doctor Hammond,” and in the next letter from the 
Privy Council to the Dr. and the others, thanking them “ for their 
paines”’ as to Campion, he is styled “ Mr. D. Hammond.’” 
In a dinner bill in the Ashmolean Library at Oxford [Wood MS., 
No. 8489. 3], for the dinner of the Earl of Leicester, when Chan- 
cellor of that University, which is headed— 
“The charges of my Lord of Leicester his dinner the vth day of September 
1570”— 
is this item— 
“To Mr. Doctor Kennalde? for iij q. of coles and for fagotes which were spent 
in the kychen and in the pastrie 1ijs viija 
Mr. anp Esquire. 
These two applied to the same person at the same time would 
now be considered very improper and only the result of extreme 
ignorance ; it was formerly otherwise. 
A letter from Sir John Popham to William Darell, Esq., dated 
March 8rd, 1582, relating to the cutting down of timber and trees 
at Axford (near Marlborough), a copy of which is still extant in 
the Tower of London, is addressed on the outside “To the Wo" my 
very loving ffrend Mr. Will Darrell esger geve thys at lytlecot.” 
In Mr. Jardine’s work before cited, in the extracts given from 
the Books of the Privy Council in the Appendix, will be found a 
letter,t dated Oct. 27, 1591, to “Mr. Attorney” [General] and 
“Mr. Solycitor” [General] as to the torturing of Thomas Clinton, 
IRE Os 2 Id. pp. 87, 88. 
3 This gentleman was John Kennall, LL.D., Canon of Christ Church, Canon 
of Exeter, Chancellor of Rochester, and Archdeacon of Oxford. 
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