Jolliffe Lownes (died 1627) was an English apothecary who served the royal family.
Lownes was apothecary to
Prince Charles
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. A bill from 1619 details perfumes, sweet powder and damask powder, supplied to the prince's servants, barber, and barge men. A similar bill for 1622 includes the perfuming of rooms at
Nonsuch Palace and Denmark House, now known as
Somerset House
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. The second bill is also for Prince Charles, not King James. Both bills were checked and certified by
Robert Cary and the physician
John Craig. Lownes also received an allowance for travel and lodging in the Prince's service, of £5 annually, paid by
Adam Newton
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Lownes had professional difficulties in February 1616 when a supplier, Michael Eason, was found to be supplying inferior materials. Eason had sold Lownes "defective Apothecarie wares" which were "unwholesome for a man's body".
As apothecary to Prince Charles, Lownes sailed to Spain in 1623 during the visit known as the
Spanish Match
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After Lownes died in 1627 his post was given to
John Wolfgang Rumler John Wolfgang Rumler (died 1650) was a German physician and apothecary in Augsburg, known for his ''Observationes medicae'', who eventually served the English royal family in the households of Prince of Wales, Queen Anne, King James and Charles I ...
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[Elizabeth Lane Furdell, ''The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts'' (New York, 2001), p. 125.]
References
External links
'Scent bottle and account of the Prince's Apothecary', National Galleries of Scotland
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1627 deaths
English apothecaries
Herbalists