the skill of the physicians. He sent for Sermon's pills, and found
himself so much recovered by them for a time, that he returned to
London at the close of the summer."

Having "found," in the newspapers of the day, the following paragraphs
illustrative of this passage in the great General's history, I think them
sufficiently interesting "to make a Note of."

"London, July 13. 1669.--His Grace the Lord General, after a long and
dangerous distemper, is (God {439} be praised) perfectly recovered and
restored to his former health, to the Great rejoycing of their
Majesties and the whole court, by the assistance of one William Sermon,
of Bristol, whose pills have had that excellent success as to restore
him perfectly to his sleep and appetite, and wholly abate all the
symptoms of his disease. Yesterday his Grace, as being perfectly cured,
dismissed his physicians from their farther attendance."

"London, July 17. 1669.--The 13th instant, Mr. William Sermon, the
practitioner in physick, who so happily performed that excellent cure
upon his Grace the Duke of Albermarle, was presented to His Majesty in
St. James's Park, where he had the honor to kiss His Majesty's hand,
and to receive his thanks for that good service."

September 9. 1669.--"Advertisement: These are to give notice that
William Sermon, Dr. of Physick, a person so eminently famous for his
cure of his Grace the Duke of Albermarle, is removed from Bristol to
London, and may be spoken with every day, especially in the forenoon,
at his house in West Harding Street, in Goldsmith's Rents, near Three
Legged Alley, between Fetter Lane and Shooe Lane."