Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851, page 39 by Various Authors
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Giovanni Volpe or Master Wolfe (Vol. iii., p. 188.).--This person was certainly never "physician to Queen Elizabeth," but he may have received from her Majesty the appointment of apothecary, as he did from her successor. On New-Year's day, 1605-6, John Vulp presented to the king "a box of Indian plums," receiving in return 7 oz. di. di. qr. of gilt plate; he is then named the last of five apothecaries who paid their votive offerings to royalty. (Nichols's Progresses, &c. of King James I., vol. i. p. 597.) In 1617 he had risen to be the king's principal apothecary, and by the name of John Wolfgango Rumlero received "for his fee by the year 40 li.," as appears by the abstract of his Majesty's revenue attached to the pamphlet entitled Time brought to Light by Time. From the name here given him, it may be conjectured that he was rather from Germany than Italy. However, he also went by the plain English name of Master Wolfe.
He is thus alluded to in the epilogue to Ben Jonson's Masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies, when it was performed at Windsor in September, 1621:--
"But, lest it prove like wonder to the sight To see a gipsy, as an Æthiop, white, Know that what dy'd our faces was an ointment Made and laid on by Master Woolfe's appointment, The Count Lycanthropos."
As he was a man of such prominence in his profession, probably many other notices of him might be collected if duly "noted" as they occur.
J. G. N.
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Replies to Minor Queries.
Sir Andrew Chadwick (Vol. iii., p. 141.).--It was stated in evidence, in a trial at Lancaster assizes, Hilary Term, 1769, between Law and Taylor, plaintiffs, and Duckworth and Wilkinson, defendants, respecting the heirs at law of Sir Andrew Chadwick, and their claim to his estates, that "Ellis Chadwick married in Ireland a lady of fashion, who had some connexion with her late Majesty Queen Anne, and had issue