The Chamberlens and the midwifery forceps : memorials of the family and an essay on the invention of the instrument / by J. H. Aveling, M.D. F.S.A.

  • Aveling, J. H. (James Hobson), 1828-1892.
Date:
1882
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Credit: The Chamberlens and the midwifery forceps : memorials of the family and an essay on the invention of the instrument / by J. H. Aveling, M.D. F.S.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    PETER CHAMBERLEN THE YOUNGER. Peter Chamberlen the Younger was the son of William Chamberlen and Genevieve Vingnon, his wife,,, and younger brother of Peter the elder. It is remarkable that although there are in the South- ampton Register records of the births of Jacques in 1569. and Jaune in 1570, children of William and Genevieve, no trace of the birth of Peter the younger is to be found. Curiously enough this omission is remedied by the follow- ing deposition copied from the “ Annals of the Barber Surgeons”:— “Wee Joan fflewrey widow of late Robert fflewrey and Martha Molin weif to Robert Molin both dwellinge in London doe certifie and testifie to all those to whome it doth appteyne That Peter Chamberlaine the younger sonne of late William Chamberlaine and Genevieve his weif was borne in the towne of Southampton on a Sunday about 5 of the cloclce in the morninge on the eighteth day of Ffebruary or thereabout in the yeare of our lord god according to the Computation of the Church of England one thousande five hundred three score and twelve (1572) at the then dwellinge house of one Mathew Syher scituate right over against the church of St. John in Southampton aforesaid and was baptized in the ffrench Church in South- ampton aforesaid by Mr. Walleyan ffrench minister and James Dunon was his godfather All which wee know to be true because wee have byn both pnte at the baptism of the said Peter Chamberlaine the younger And there