Jonathan Goddard

son of Henry Goddard a Ship-carpenter of Deptford, was born at Greenwich in Kent, became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632 aged 15 years, where continuing till he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts, he then left that House, and went, as I presume, beyond the Seas. On the 20 of Jan. 1642 he was created Doctor of Phys. of the Univ. of Cambridge, at which time he was a practitioner of that faculty in London, afterwards in the Army raised by the Parliament, and at length to Oliver Cromwell, with whom he went as his great confident into Ireland, and into Scotland after the murder of K. Ch. 1. In 1651 he, by the said Olivers power, became Warden of Mert. Coll. and in January the same year, he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University. Afterwards he was elected Burgess for the University to serve in the Little Parliament an. 1653, and made one of the Council of State in the same year. About that time he became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London; afterwards of the Royal Society, and Professor of Physick in Gresham Coll. When he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. (which was in 1660) he lived mostly in that of Gresham, where (being an admirable Chymist) he had a Laboratory to prepare all Medicines that he used on his Patients, besides what he operated for his own satisfaction. He was also a zealous member of the Royal Society for the improvement of natural knowledg among them: and when any curious experiment was to be done, they made him their Drudg till they could obtain to the bottom of it. He hath written,

A discourse concerning Physick and the many abuses thereof by the Apothecaries. Lond. 1668. oct. An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions, num. 41. He is said ((a))((a)) Hen. Stubbe in his Campanella revived, p. 21. to have written of this matter (of the Abuse of Physick) more warily and with greater prudence than Christ. Merret.

Discourse setting forth the unhappy condition of the practice of Physick in London, &c. Lond. 166.. qu.

Some observations of a Camelion.—See in the Philosophical Transactions. nu. 137. p. 930. &c.

Experiments of refining gold with Antimony.—See there also, nu. 139. p. 953. &c. And left behind him at his death Lectures read at Chirurgeons Hall; and other matters in 2 vol. in qu. fit, as ’tis said, for the press. He had also laying by him at his death,

Arcana medicinalia: Published at the end of the second Edit. of Pharmacopoeia Bateana, by Ja. Shipton an Apothecary—Lond. 1691. oct. He died suddenly of an apoplexy at the end of Woodstreet in Cheapside, in his going home from the Crown Tavern in Bloomsbury (where a club of Virtuosi sometimes met) to his Lodgings in Gresham Coll. about eleven of the clock in the night of the 24. of Mar. in sixteen hundred seventy and four,1674/5. and was the third day after buried in the middle of the Chancel of Great S. Helens Church in London. He was Master of a most curious Library of books, well and richly bound, which he intended to bestow on the Library belonging to the Royal Society, but he dying intestate, it came into the hands of the next Heir, viz. his Sisters Son, a Scholar of Caies Coll. in Cambridge. I find an excellent character of this our author Dr. Goddard given by Dr. Seth Ward in his Epist. dedic. ((b))((b)) Edit. Oxon. 1653. qu. before Praelectio de Cometis & inquisit. in Bullialdi Astronom. Philolaicae fundamenta; and in the Epist. ded. before Delphi ((c))((c)) Ed. Ox. 1655. oct. Phoenicizantes, &c. published by Edmund Dickenson of Mert. Coll. To both which I refer the reader if he be curious to know farther of him.