ANNOTATION. 79 



MDCLXxvi. There are eighteen of them. Of three 

 who lived before Dr. Jorden he knew little ; but he 

 gives a good account of Dr. Jorden, of whom he says 

 that he was the first resident physician who wrote 

 on the "Waters. He appears to have been a thoroughly 

 educated and accomplished physician, and a more 

 general and public benefactor by the labour which he 

 bestowed on the refining of alum, by which, however, 

 his fortunes were injured. He died in 1632. Of 

 Dr. Tobias Yenner, Dr. Guidott speaks but slight- 

 ingly. He also printed something about Bath. Sir 

 Edward Greaves, physician in ordinary to King 

 Charles the Second, practised for a while at Bath. 

 Next come Dr. Bave, a foreigner, and Dr. John 

 Maplet, a man of various literature, " a good physi- 

 cian, a better Christian, and an excellent poet." It 

 is remarkable how many of the old physicians of 

 Bath, including Guidott himself, ventured to attract 

 to themselves the reputation of the poet. Dr. Guidott 

 says that another of his eighteen, Thomas Leyson, 

 wrote a Latin poem in celebration of that most 

 remarkable place Saint Donat's, the seat of the 

 Stradlings, in Glamorganshire. It is useless to follow 

 Dr. Guidott further. 



In the parish register of Bath is the following entry 

 among the burials : — " 1617, July 26. William 

 Jorden, the sonne of Mr. Doct. Jorden: the said child. 



