John Clavie

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John Clavie or Clavee (died 1607) was a Scottish apothecary who worked for James VI and I.

Clavie was based in Edinburgh and moved with the court to London on the Union of the Crowns.[1]

Edinburgh burgh hosted a banquet for Anne of Denmark's brother, Ulrik, Duke of Holstein, in April 1598 at the house of Ninian MacMorran at Riddle's court. Wine was sweetened and spiced to Hippocras by two apothecaries, John Lawtie and John Clavie, and a third apothecary, Alexander Barclay made two pints of "vergeis" and a mutchkin of perfumed rose water.[2]

Clavie was appointed an apothecary in ordinary to King James in March 1603, and appointed to serve Anne of Denmark, Prince Henry and the other royal children on 19 July.[3]

John Clavie died in 1607. He was replaced in the royal household by , an apothecary from Flanders.[4]

He married Marie Aldinstoun. After Clavie's death, she married Patrick Livingstone, fear of Saltcoats.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts (New York, 2001), pp. 115, 121.
  2. ^ Marguerite Wood, Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, 1589-1603 (Edinburgh, 1927), pp. 218, 362-4.
  3. ^ Leslie Gerald Matthews, The Royal Apothecaries (London, 1967), p. 88: Thomas Rymer, Foedera, vol. 16, pp. 522, 532-3.
  4. ^ L. G. Matthews, London's Immigrant Apothecaries, Medical History, 18 (1974), p. 263.
  5. ^ David Masson, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 1613-1616, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1891), p. 160.
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