Street (which is a street running parallel to part of Queen Victoria Street, E.C.) as a meeting-place for the new corporation. All who are competent to judge seem agreed in stating that Linacre was one of the greatest scholars of his age, and possessed a knowledge of Latin and Greek which for that time was quite exceptionally great. He founded lectureships at Oxford and Cambridge. He died in 1524, six years after the foundation of the College, and was buried in Old St. Paul’s, where in 1557 Caius erected a monument with an epitaph of his own composing. Of =John Chambre=, the first person named in the charter, we know little; but it is interesting to note that he was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford; that he studied at Padua; that he was physician to the king; that he was censor of the College in 1523; that he was doubly a vicar, doubly an archdeacon, a prebend, a canon, and a dean, and the treasurer of Bath Cathedral. He died in 1549. Of the other four persons named in the charter we know very little, and they need not detain us. Linacre’s house, which was given by its owner, was the first home of the College of Physicians, was occupied by the College until 1614, and remained the property of the College until 1860, when it was taken for the Crown by an Act of Parliament. Only the front part of the house was given by Linacre, the back part belonging to Merton College, Oxford, which is one of the many connexions between Merton College and the College of Physicians. The house represented at p. 61 was certainly not Linacre’s original dwelling. [Illustration: LINACRE’S HOUSE. (_From a Print in the “Gold-Headed Cane.”_)] We have thus seen the science of medicine in London beginning with the clergy, then organised under the supervision of bishops and deans, and finally with an independent controlling body, of which the early members were many of them in holy orders. It will now be convenient to trace the subsequent history of the College of Physicians, and I shall endeavour to bring before the mind’s eye some of its most remarkable early Fellows, and in so doing I shall hope to give some idea of the condition of medicine in London in the days of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns. My information on these points is mainly drawn from Dr. Munk’s learned work, entitled “The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London.”