memorial until the year 1557, when, after a lapse of 33 years, a comely monument was erected to his memory by Dr. John Caius, then president of the College, with the following inscription on a brass plate :—
"Thomas Lynacrus, Regis Henrici VIII. medicus, vir & Græcé & Latinè atque in re medicâ longe eruditissimus: multos ætate suâ languentes, & qui jam animam desponderant, vitæ restituit: multa Galeni opera in Latinam linguam, mirâ & singulari facundiâ vertit: egregium opus de emendatâ structurâ Latini sermonis, amicorum rogatu, paulo ante mortem edidit. Medicinæ studiosis Oxoniæ publicas lectiones duas, Cantabrigiæ unam, in perpetuum stabilivit. In hâc urbe Collegium Medicorum fieri suâ industriâ curavit, cujus & Præsidens proximus electus est. Fraudes dolosque mirè perosus: fidus amicis: omnibus ordinibus juxta clarus: aliquot annis antequam obierat Presbyter factus. Plenus annis ex hâc vitâ migravit, multum desideratus, Anno Domini 1524, die 20 Octobris.
- Vivit post funera virtus.
- Thomæ Lynacro Clarissimo Medico.
- Johannes Caius posuit, anno 1557.
This monument remained till the year 1666, when it was destroyed by the great fire of London. Dr. F. N. Johnson gives the following copy of Lynacre's will, which is preserved in the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury:[1]
"Testament of Thomas Lynacre, Doctor in Medicine.
In the name of God, Amen. The xixth day of Juyñ, in the yere of our Lord God a thousande fyve hundred and xxiiij, and the xvj yere of the reigne of Kyng Henry the Eighť, I, Thomas Lynacre, doctour of phesike, being hole of mynde and in good memory, lawde and praysing be vnto almighty god, make, ordeyn, and dispoase this my present testament and last will, in manner and fourme following: that is to witt, ffirst, I bequẽth and recomende
- ↑ Bodfield 21, fol. xxxvi. His arms were, sable, a chevron between 3 escallops argent, on a chief or, as many greyhounds' heads erased of the field. (Cooper's Athen. Cantab.)
