London,” 1634.) Each of his two sons was named Peter, of whom the elder left a daughter, wife of Cargill of Aberdeenshire. The younger son was Peter Chamberlaine of London, practitioner in physic, who married Sarah, daughter of William de Laune, doctor in physic. He had many children, of whom the eldest was Dr Peter Chamberlaine, physician to King Charles I. and to King Charles II., who married Jane, daughter of Sir Hugh Middleton, Bart. His son seems to have slightly altered his surname, which in 1664 he signed thus:— “Hugh Chamberlen;” he also was of London, and a doctor of physic : his wife was Dorothy, daughter of John Brett, Esq., of ____ in Kent. His son and successor was Hugh Chamberlain (or Chamberlen), M.D., of Cambridge, (born 1664, died 1728); he was three times married, and had by his first wife one daughter, and by his second wife two daughters. He was a fashionable physician and accoucheur, and a highly successful general practitioner in London, and left a large fortune. He brought Mauriceau’s (the French Physician) Treatise, and his invention of the obstetrical forceps, into notice and use. His monument was provided by Edmund, Duke of Buckingham, and his epitaph by Bishop Atterbury. Mr George Lewis Smith says, that this monument which is in Westminster Abbey, is executed in marble of different colours by P. A. Scheemakers and Laur. Delvaux, and is " of striking effect;" the recumbent statue of the author, and the figures of Health, Longevity, and Fame are all gracefully and success- fully designed and executed.
The following is the epitaph:—
HUGO CHAMBERLEN,
Hugonis ac Petri utriusque Medici filius ac nepos,
Medicinam ipse excoluit feliciter et egregié honestavit :
ad summam quippe artis suae peritiam
summam etiam in dictis et factis fidem, insignem mentis candorem,
morumque suavitatem, adjunxit,
ut an languentibus an sanis acceptior, an medicus an vir melior esset
certatum sit inter eos qui in utroque laudis genere
Primarium fuisse uno ore consentiunt.
Nullam ille medendi rationem non assecutus,
depellendis tamen Puerperarum periculis, et avertendis Infantium morbis,
operam prascipuè impendit,
eaque multoties cavit
ne illustribus familiis eriperentur hoeredes unici,
ne patriae charissimje cives egregii.
Universis certè prodesse (quam potuit) voluit,
adeoque, distractâ in Partes republicâ.
Cum iis, a quorum sententiâ discessit, amicitiam nihilominus sanctè coluit,
artisque suae praesidia lubens communicavit.
Fuit ille
tantâ vitae elegantiâ et nitore, animo tam forti tamque excelso,
indole tam propensâ ad munificentiam,
specie ipsâ tam ingenuâ atque liberali,
ut facilè crederes prosapiae ejus nobilem aliquem exstitisse auctorem,
utcumque ex praeclarâ stirpe veterum Comitum de Tankerville
jam a quadringentis Ilium annis ortum nescires.
In diversâ quam expertus fortunae sorte.
Quod suum erat — quod decuit — semper tenuit;
cum Magnis vivens
baud demissé se gessit,
