The Chamberlens and the Midwifery Forceps - James Hobson Aveling

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...estate which God of his Bounty hath endowed me with I order and dispose thereof as followeth (viz.) Imprimis That forasmuch that I haue already advanced all my children in the world (except my sonne Hope Chamberlen hereafter named) and given them Considerable porcons of my estate Therefore I doe hereby giue and bequeath vnto my deare and loving wife Anne Chamberlen and to my said sonne Hope Chamberlen all and singuler the Rest and remaining part of my said estate be it in ready money Plate Jewells Lands houses houshold Stuffe Debts due to me and owing and otherwise how so ever And I doe hereby nominate and appoint my said deare and loving wife Anne Chamberlen full and sole executrix of this my last will and Testament. Finally I doe hereby Revoake renounce and make vtterly voide and of noe effect all former and other wills by me appointed ordained and made declareing and pronouncing this present Testament to be my true and last Will. In Witnesse whereof to this my last will and Testament I the said Peter Chamberlen have sett my hand and seale the ffowerth day of May aforesaid.--Peter Chamberlen--Signed & sealed published and declared by the said Testator Peter Chamberlen as and for his last will and Testament in the presence of John Belcher. Ri: Parnham. John Hoyle, scr. John Eld: his servant.--Proved 2 January 1683-4 by Anne Chamberlen rel. & extrix." Dr. Peter Chamberlen died in 1683, at Woodham Mortimer Hall, f near Maldon, in Essex, and was buried in Woodham Mortimer churchyard, where his tomb still stands in a dilapidated condition, bearing the following inscription, which is rapidly becoming illegible: --"Here lyes ye body of Doctor Peter Chamberlen, who was born on the 8th of May, 1601, and dyed on the 22nd of December, 1683, being age...