Twyford, Hants, March 18. 1851.
WILLIAM WOLPE. ===
Arms, Vert a fox |
courant, proper. |
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JOHN WOLPE, _aliter_ VULP, "An Italian === ---- ----, "Descended
doctor; was ffamous in Queene Eliza- | of the ffamily of the
beth's tyme, went with George Erle | Monntaynes in Yorkshire,
of Cumberland most of his sea | who keepe the name this
voyages, and was with him at the | daye [1622.]."
takeing of Portorico, in the Indies." |
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RICHARD EVERS (1st) === FRANCES, "Sole === (2nd) RICHARD HUGHES, Esq.,
"Of the ffamily of | daughter." Died | of Gwerclas, co. Merioneth,
Evers of Coventry." | 29 June, 1636, | Baron of Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion.
| circa æt. 50. | Married 2 Nov. 1601. Died 21
| | March, 1641, circa æt. 80.
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MARTHA, "Only daughter." === RICHARD LLOYD HUMFFREY HUGHES, Esq. of
Born 25 January, 1599. | of Vaerdre [in Gwerclas, Baron of Cymmer-
Married, 27 June, 1616. /|\ Edeirnion, co. yn-Edeirnion, son and heir.
Merioneth]. High Sheriff of Merioneth-
"Had issue sonnes and daughters, now [19 shire in 1670. Born 14
April, 1622] liveing." Aug. 1605. Buried at
Llangar in Edeirnion,
4 May, 1682. |
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_Giovanni Volpe or Master Wolfe_ (Vol. iii., p. 188.).--This person was
certainly never "physician to Queen Elizabeth," but he may have received
from her Majesty the appointment of apothecary, as he did from her
successor. On New-Year's day, 1605-6, John Vulp presented to the king "a
box of Indian plums," receiving in return 7 oz. di. di. qr. of gilt plate;
he is then named the last of five apothecaries who paid their votive
offerings to royalty. (Nichols's _Progresses, &c. of King James I._, vol.
i. p. 597.) In 1617 he had risen to be the king's principal apothecary, and
by the name of John Wolfgango Rumlero received "for his fee by the year 40
_li._," as appears by the abstract of his Majesty's revenue attached to the
pamphlet entitled _Time brought to Light by Time_. From the name here given
him, it may be conjectured that he was rather from Germany than Italy.
However, he also went by the plain English name of Master Wolfe.
He is thus alluded to in the epilogue to Ben Jonson's _Masque of the
Metamorphosed Gipsies_, when it was performed at Windsor in September,
1621:--
"But, lest it prove like wonder to the sight
To see a gipsy, as an Æthiop, white,
Know that what dy'd our faces was an ointment
Made and laid on by Master Woolfe's appointment,
The Count Lycanthropos."
As he was a man of such prominence in his profession, probably many other
notices of him might be collected if duly "noted" as they occur.