KruKPATRiCK — Charlfis Willoiighh/, M.t). 241 



and requires his inarching with it, and I conceive if Fountain be alive, he is 

 so antiquated that Thompson may with his consent officiate for him. This 

 will be the thriftiest way, and the Governors are in conscience bound to be 

 as good husbands for the Hospital as they can be, that the charity may 

 extend as far as the fund will reach. '^' Arran agreed that the appointment 

 should be given to the Surgeon-General, " because the work might be well 

 enough done by him and with a less salary.'"* 



This plan was eventually adopted, and Charles Thompson, the Chirurgeon- 

 General, was in 1684 appointed Surgeon to the Hospital at a salary of £50 a 

 year, with a " mate " at £20 a year. On November 17,1692, Patrick Dun 

 was appointed Physician at a salary similar to that which had been paid to 

 Thompson. 



We lose sight of Willoughby altogether during the troublous times from 

 1687 to 1690. He does not seem to have been connected with the army, and 

 his name does not appear among those of the Physicians mentioned by Sir 

 Patrick Dun as attending the wounded soldiers either in the camp or at the 

 Eoyal Hospital. Possibly he left the country for a time, but he was back 

 again in Dublin in 1690. In that year he wrote the paper which was 

 published by Wilde, and sent it to his friend William King, Bishop of Derry, 

 who in reply sent him the following letter : — 



Londonderry, May (19) 169(1) 

 Sr 



I received yours -with your observations on the Bills of mortality for wch I am 

 much yor debtor & I believe yt you have (sd) as much as such an exhausted 

 subject will bear. I cannot prtend to say much to ym. If these calamitys had 

 not destroyed our church books, which were regularly enough kept in most places 

 in the diocese, I coud have furnished you with countrey observations (but) yn the 

 diseases are not specifyed nor the age of the persons, some parishes have yet yr 

 books, & I have ordered ye ministers to make extracts out of ym, as soon as I get 

 any I will send ym to you. There is a thing called the viewing of parishes, in 

 order to know ye value of tiths. ye master of each familys name is in one 

 column, the number of acres of oats yt he plows, likewise of wheat, barl(eyj &c 

 together with ye number of cows, sheep &e in others, these are taken in each 

 parish every year very ex(act). Now if they were collected together, with a little 

 addition of a column or two more, for ye number of males & females, under 16 

 and above 16, in each family ; I believe it might be of better use yn the bills of 

 mortality, for 1st it woud give exactly the (num)ber of the people 2dly it woud 

 distinguish the serviceable from the unserviceable 3 it woud show exactly the 

 increase & decrease of ye numbers 4thly it woud exactly distinguish the riches of 

 (every) place, & in wt commoditys they abounded 5 it woud inform the government 

 in all applotments, how to tax every parish & where to find men, cows horses, 



' Orraoiid Mss., N.S., vol. vi, p. 150. - Ibid., p. 147. 



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