Chelsea, in the Olden & Present TimesBryan, George
History
Chelsea, in the Olden & Present Times
Bryan, George
Chelsea (London, England) -- History
Imprimis. For a hazel eye, £52 10 0
And tongue that never told a lie, &c.
Item, for pranks and wanton wiles, 80 0 0
Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, &c.
Item, for filial obedience, 100 0 0
One of our daughter’s chief ingredients, &c.
Then, item, for her race and name, 200 0 0
Nearly in value both the same, &c.
Item, for every hope and fear 67 10 0
That hitherto hath chequer’d care, &c.
£500 0 0
For such a sale, to us are due
A Bond, and final Judgment too;
From you the former may be given,
The latter must be left to . . . Heaven.
Advised, pressed, solicited, nay, perhaps, commanded by an anxious
father, this lady at last married. Soon afterwards she grew melancholy
and desponding, and fell by her own hand, at her residence at Richmond,
in the year 1785. She married Captain Fortescue.
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DR. DOMINICETI’S BATHS.—The dwelling house afterwards occupied by the
Rev. Weeden Butler, a few doors from Flood Street, Cheyne Walk, was once
inhabited by one Dominiceti, an Italian physician, of very considerable
notoriety and talents. At this house he established medicinal baths for
the cure of all diseases; and it was fitted up with pipes, &c., for the
accommodation of numerous patients, who might choose to reside with him
while they were under his care. In 1765 it is described as a large,
pleasant, and convenient house, which contains four spacious and lofty
parlours, two dining rooms, and thirteen bed chambers. On the east side
of the garden, and directly communicating with the house, was erected an
elegant brick and wooden building, 100-ft. long, and 16-ft. wide, in
which were the baths and fumigatory stoves, etc. It appears, from his
own account, that he expended about £37,000 altogether in erecting,
contriving, and completing his house, and baths in Cheyne Walk.
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Among his visitors and patients, at Chelsea, was his Royal Highness
Edward Duke of York, who entrusted the preservation of his life to
Dominiceti’s sole direction for above a month; and that in direct
opposition to the advice of the Physicians and Surgeons of the Royal
household. Sir John Fielding, having experienced the good effects, as he
considered, of these baths, wrote a “Vindication of Dr. Dominiceti’s
Practice of removing various afflicting diseases by medicated baths,
stoves, fumigations, and frictions, founded on facts.”
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Dominiceti resided for several years in Chelsea. He became bankrupt in
the parish in 1782, and at length disappeared, overwhelmed with debt.
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