Vicary, Thomas

Copy of Thomas Vicary's will (his man is given as Vicars in the will), in which he leaves instructions for his burial and wills his money to a number of different people and places, including ten pounds to the poor of St Bartholomews hospital, where he worked.

Includes a photograph of a copy of a document, which is the only known surviving example of Vicary's handwriting.

27 January 1560

3 pages, 1 photograph Paper, photograph

No acquisition information given

Career

1525 elected third warden of the Barbers' Company of London

1528 upper warden of the Barbers' Company of London

1530, 1541, 1546, 1548, 1557 elected master of the Barbers' Company of London

1528 surgeon to Henry VIII

1530 promise of the reversion of the office of sergeant-surgeon to the king

1536 succeeded and held the office until his death. Vicary continued sergeant-surgeon to Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth, and in 1554 was appointed surgeon to Philip

1540 Barbers and Surgeons were united by an act of parliament

1546 city undertook the refitting St. Bartholomew's Hospital, after the grant of Henry VIII's second charter to the hospital

1548-1552 reappointed yearly as a governor

1552 made 'one of the assistants of this house for the terme of his life'

Granted a lease for twenty-one years of parts of the dissolved abbey of

Boxley in Kent, the lands of which had been given to Sir Thomas Wyatt , and in 1542 he, with his son William, was appointed bailiff of the manor of Boxley, and received a regrant of the office from Philip and Mary in 1555

Personal

He married the sister of Thomas Dunkyn, a yeoman of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. One son, William

1547 married Alice Bucke