Family
Bradmore is known to have practiced surgery along with other members of his family. His brother Nicholas Bradmore is also recorded as a surgeon in London, though John appears to have been the more successful of the two, amassing considerable property. John's daughter Agnes married another surgeon, John Longe.Green, Monica, ''Making Women's Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology'', Oxford University Press, 2008, p.56. Bradmore worked as a court physician throughout the reign of King Henry IV. According to historian Faye Getz, "Surgeons especially seem to have engaged in metalworking as a trade, probably making surgical instruments for themselves and for sale purposes." Bradmore was probably a skilled metalworker, as he is also referred to as a "gemestre" (gemster), which may mean he made jewellery.Extraction
Before the Battle of Shrewsbury, Bradmore had been imprisoned on suspicion of using his metalworking skills for illegal purposes — namely counterfeiting coins. After the sixteen-year-old prince Henry had been shot in the face at Shrewsbury, he was released in order to aid him.S. J. Lang, "Bradmore, John (d. 1412)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 Bradmore attended the prince at Kenilworth, where the wounded Henry had been taken after the battle. An arrow penetrated on the left side below the eye and beside the nose of the young prince. When surgeons tried to remove the arrow, the shaft broke, leaving theLater activities
For his service, he was paid an annuity of 10 sovereigns a year (approximately £26,720 in 2020). There are also records of payments to him for medicines for the king. In 1408, Bradmore was appointed Searcher of the Port of London. The ''Philomena'', which documents the newly invented device and the surgery on the king, was written at some time between 1403 and Bradmore's death in 1412. It was published by Bradmore's son-in-law, John Longe. The original was written in Latin. It was translated into English in 1446.Chris Given-Wilson, ''An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England'', Manchester University Press, 1996, p.92. As an attendant to King Henry IV, Bradmore also oversaw the care of William Wyncelowe, the king's pavilioner, who had attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the abdomen. Wyncelowe had ruptured his intestines in the attempt. Bradmore attended him for 86 days, and Wyncelowe survived.References
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