Francis Power

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Personal and Family Information

Francis was born about 1560, the son of unknown parents. The place is not known.

His wife is not known. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Frances (c1590-?).

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BirthABT 1560

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Note 1

!Source: The visitation of Kent : taken in the years 1619-1621, page 202, by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, Marshal and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux., edited Robert Hovenden, F.S.A., London 1989. [Public Library of Boston]

archive.org/details/visitationofkent00camd/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater

Additional Pedegrees. Hawkins. [Harl. 6138, fo. 45th.]

John Hawkins of London Doctor in Phisick

Wife: Frances daur. of …. Powre of Blechington com. Oxford esq.

!Source: John Hawkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hawkins_

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Hawkins M.D. was an English physician, known as a grammarian and translator.[1]

Life

He was a son of Sir Thomas Hawkins of Nash Court, Boughton under Blean, Kent, and his wife, Ann Pettyt; the family was recusant, with Sir Thomas Hawkins and Henry Hawkins the Jesuit being elder brothers. He took his degree of M.D. at the University of Padua.[2]

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Hawkins appeared in John Gee's list of Popish Physicians in and about the City of London in 1624 as residing in Charterhouse Court.[2] He was not elected to the College of Physicians of London.[1]

Works

Hawkins published:[2]

A brief Introduction to Syntax, collected out of Nebrissa. … With the Concordance supplyed by J. H., London, 1631, translated from Antonio de Nebrija.

Discursus de Melancholia Hypochondriaca, Heidelberg, 1633.

The Ransome of Time being captive. Wherein is declared how precious a thing is Time, London, 1634, translation from the Spanish of Andreas de Soto.

Dictionary of Latin verbs [1]

Particulæ Latinæ Orationis, collectæ, dispositæ, et confabulationibus digestæ, London, 1635, on Latin grammatical particles.

Paraphrase upon the seaven Penitential Psalms, London, 1635, translated from Italian.

Family

Hawkins married Frances, daughter of Francis Power of Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire. Francis Hawkins the Jesuit was their son.[2]