Deighton anecdote in Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'

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Deighton anecdote in Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'

Legg inn av John Brandon » 12 mai 2006 22:32:40

--from the biographical sketch of John Hoskyns (d. 1638) in Andrew
Clark, ed., _'Brief Lives,' Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John
Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 & 1696_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898),
2 vols., 1:422:

Not many moneths before his [Hoskyns'] death (being at the assises or
sessions at Hereford) a massive countrey fellowe trod on his toe, which
caused a gangrene which was the cause of his death. One Mr. Dighton of
Glocester (an experienced chirurgian who had formerly been chirurgian
in the warres in Ireland) was sent for to cure him; but his skill and
care could not save him. His toes were first cutt-off. The minister
of his parish had a clubbe-foote or feete (I think his name was Hugh).
Said he, 'Sir Hugh'--after his toes were cutt off--'I must be
acquainted with your shoemaker.'

Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: Deighton anecdote in Aubrey's 'Brief Lives'

Legg inn av Tim Powys-Lybbe » 13 mai 2006 21:49:01

In message of 13 May, mjcar@btinternet.com wrote:

John Brandon schrieb:

--from the biographical sketch of John Hoskyns (d. 1638) in Andrew
Clark, ed., _'Brief Lives,' Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John
Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 & 1696_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898),
2 vols., 1:422:

Not many moneths before his [Hoskyns'] death (being at the assises or
sessions at Hereford) a massive countrey fellowe trod on his toe, which
caused a gangrene which was the cause of his death. One Mr. Dighton of
Glocester (an experienced chirurgian who had formerly been chirurgian
in the warres in Ireland) was sent for to cure him; but his skill and
care could not save him. His toes were first cutt-off. The minister
of his parish had a clubbe-foote or feete (I think his name was Hugh).
Said he, 'Sir Hugh'--after his toes were cutt off--'I must be
acquainted with your shoemaker.'

An interesting, late use of the title "Sir" in reference to a
clergyman. I understand this habit persisted on the Isle of Man until
the early years of the 18th century.

And to this day Benedictine monks still use the prefix title of "Dom"
which one recently explained to be from this older use of "Sir". Dom is
almost certainly short for Dominus.

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