Edward Jorden

, a learned, candid, and sober Physician of his time, was born at High-Halden in Kent, and educated for a time, as it seems, among several of his Countrymen in Hart hall, where some of his Sirname did about that time study, but whether he took a degree here, it appears not. Afterwards, designing Physick his profession, he travelled beyond the Seas, spent some time at Padua, where he took the degree of Doctor of that Faculty, and upon his return practiced in London, and became one of the Coll. of Physicians there. Afterwards he setled in the City of Bathe, where practicing with good success, had the applause of the learned, respect from the rich, prayers from the poor, and the love of all. He hath written,

A brief discourse of a disease called the suffocation of the mother, &c. Lond. 1603. qu.

Discourse of natural Bathes and mineral Waters.— Twice printed: Which being revised and corrected by Thomas Guidott Bach. of Phys. of Wadh. coll. and a Practicioner in the City of Bathe, he published it a third time at Lond. 1669. in oct. To which he added an Appendix containing, A treatise concerning the Bathe, wherein the antiquity both of the Bathes and the City is discoursed, &c.—Dr. Jorden died about the seventh day of January in sixteen hundred thirty and two,1632-3. aged 63. and was buried in the south Isle joyning to the great Church within the City of Bathe, dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul. He had a natural inclination to Mineral (b)(b) See in A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there, &c. Lond. 1676. p. 166. written by Tho. Guidott. works, and was at great charges about the ordering of Allum, which succeeding not according to expectation, he was thereby much prejudiced in his Estate, as it appears in the 7. chap. of Nat. Bathes & Mineral Waters, wherein ’tis said that Allum was the greatest Debtor he had, and he the greatest Benefactor to it, as he could make it appear, when he thought fit to publish the artifice thereof.