In the ‘Heads of Charges against Robert, Earl of Somerset’, drawn up by Lord Bacon, we read: ‘That the countess laboured Forman and Gresham to inforce the Queen by witchcraft to favour the countess’ (Howell’s _State Trials_ 2. 966). To this King James replied in an ‘Apostyle,’ _Nothing to Somerset_. This exhausts the references to Gresham that I have been able to find. See note on Savory, 1. 2. 3. =1. 2. 2. Fore-man.= Simon Foreman, or Forman (1552-1611) was the most famous of the group of quacks here mentioned. He studied at Oxford, 1573-1578, and in 1579 began his career as a necromancer. He claimed the power to discover lost treasure, and was especially successful in his dealings with women. A detailed account of his life is given in the _DNB_. and a short but interesting sketch in _Social England_ 4. 87. The chief sources are Wm. Lilly’s _History_ and a diary from 1564 to 1602, with an account of Forman’s early life, published by Mr. J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps for the Camden Soc., 1843. He is mentioned again by Jonson in _Silent Woman_, _Wks._ 3. 413: ‘_Daup._ I would say, thou hadst the best philtre in the world, and couldst do more than Madam Medea, or Doctor Foreman.’ In _Sir Thomas Overbury’s Vision_ (Harl. Ms., vol. 7, quoted in D’Ewes’ _Autobiog._, p. 89) he is spoken of as ‘that fiend in human shape.’ =1. 2. 3 Francklin.= Francklin was an apothecary, and procured the poison for Mrs. Turner (see Amos, _Great Oyer_. p. 97). He was one of the three persons executed with Mrs. Turner. Arthur Wilson, in his _Life of James I._ (p. 70), describes him as ‘a swarthy, sallow, crooked-backt fellow, who was to be the _Fountain_ whence these bitter waters came.’ See also Somer’s _Tracts_ 2. 287. The poem already quoted furnishes a description of Francklin: A man he was of stature meanly tall. His body’s lineaments were shaped, and all His limbs compacted well, and strongly knit. Nature’s kind hand no error made in it. His beard was ruddy hue, and from his head A wanton lock itself did down dispread Upon his back; to which while he did live Th’ ambiguous name of _Elf-lock_ he did give. --Quoted in Amos. p. 50. =1. 2. 3 Fiske.= ‘In this year 1633, I became acquainted with Nicholas Fiske, licentiate in physick, who was borne in Suffolk, near Framingham [Framlingham] Castle, of very good parentage.... He was a person very studious, laborious, and of good apprehension.... He was exquisitely skilful in the art of directions upon nativities, and had a good genius in performing judgment thereupon.... He died about the seventy-eighth year of his age, poor.’--Lilly, _Hist._, p. 42 f. Fiske appears as La Fiske in _Rollo, Duke of Normandy_, and is also mentioned by Butler, _Hudibr_., Part 2, Cant. 3. 403: And nigh an ancient obelisk Was rais’d by him, found out by _Fisk_.