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bound himself as apprentice for seven years ; and that 

 he " his master well and faithfully shall serve ; his 

 secrets shall keep ; taverns he shall not haunt ; at dice, 

 cards, tables, bowls or any other unlawful games he 

 shall not play." B. Bartlett covenants to teach him 

 " the art, trade, mystery or occupation of an apothecary," 

 and to give him " sufficient and enough of meat, drink, 

 washing and lodging." The father is to find " all apparels 

 and other necessaries whatsoever," and the consideration 

 money of 50. J The young dalesman here showed tokens 

 of his future character, attracting admiration by his 

 sensible conduct and aptness, and profiting by the example 

 of a master who was alike gentlemanly and generous. 2 



After six of the seven years of his apprenticeship had 

 been spent in compounding medicines and visiting 

 patients, young Fothergill, now at the age of twenty 

 years, took the momentous step of entering for study at 

 the University of Edinburgh. This was in 1734. He 

 aimed to be an apothecary, and sought the fuller training 

 to be found at a university. To him, as a Dissenter, the 

 universities of his own country were, of course, closed ; 

 nor was the medical training there given adapted to his 

 needs. Many of the abler medical students went to 

 study abroad, and took a degree at Paris or at Padua, 

 or especially at Leyden, which was then at the height of 

 its fame under the celebrated Boerhaave. 



1 The deed is preserved at Ackworth School, together with Fothergill's 

 diplomas from Edinburgh University and from the Royal Colleges of Physicians 

 in London and Edinburgh. 



2 Successful and valued in his profession, Benjamin Bartlett was also a 

 Friend of grave and solid deportment, zealous for the good order of the church. 

 He took part in the ministry for forty years, offering short homilies on practical 

 religion. He was a lover of hospitality and of good men, and Fothergill kept 

 up his friendship with him until his death in 1759 at the age of eighty-one 

 years. See MS. Testimonies, ii. 47, Frds. Ref. Lib. Bartlett's son and 

 namesake came to London, where Fothergill introduced him to an apothecary's 

 practice in Red Lion Street : this, when his health declined, he resigned to 

 J. Bogle-French, of whom we shall hear again. Bartlett the younger was a 

 man of different temperament from his father ; an antiquary, learned in 

 ecclesiastical coins and the history of parishes, on which he published works. 

 He was a frequent visitor at Fothergill's house. He died at Hertford in 1787. 

 See MS. Journal of Betty Fothergill ; Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, ix. 97 ; 

 B. Bartlett's published works ; W. Scruton, Pen and Pencil Pictures of Old 

 Bradford, pp. 210 ff. ; W. Cudworth, Histories of Bolton and Bowling, pp. 58 ff. ; 

 Ext. from Corresp. R. Richardson, M.D., p. 192. 



