Note 148 — Chapter VII · Health, Disease and Sanitation[125]

‘William Hobbes (appointed in 1461) was the first Serjeant Surgeon, a distinguished office which carried with it certain well-defined professional privileges. Thomas Morstede, William Bredewardyne, and John Harwe, who attended Henry V. in his French campaigns, did not receive this title, but are called simply “Surgeons to the King.” ’—D’Arcy Power, The Serjeant Surgeons of England and their Office (Janus, 1900, p. 174).