On 15th September 1633 William Croone was born.
On 11th December 1642 William Croone [aged 9] was admitted to the Merchant Taylors' School.
On 13th May 1647 William Croone [aged 13] was admitted a pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, graduating B.A. in 1651, and M.A. in 1654
On 4th June 1662 William Croone [aged 28] gave a lecture before the Royal Society; the first documented use of a preservative fluid (ethanol in this case) for long-term curation of museum specimens. 4th June is celebrated at the Natural History Museum as 'Croone Day'.
Minutes of the Royal Society. 11th June 1662. 82. Royal Society Meeting Minutes.
Sir Robert Moray [aged 54] President.
Dr Petty's [aged 51] brother [aged 42] showed the Society a draft of the pleasure boat he is to make for the King [aged 32].
Lord Berkeley of Berkely [aged 13] presented the Society with a Bird of Paradise having two feet.
Dr Goddard brought in a moth with feathered wings.
Mr Evelyn [aged 41] presentd the Society with a book called 'The History of Chalcogrphij'.
Mr Ball to be asked to produce his 'Magnetick Instruments',
Mr Boyle1 presented the Society with a book of the 'Weight and Spring of Air'; and also with a glass tube filled with Minium, wherewith the experiment of filtering was made.
The Amanuensis to enquire about the depth of the water under the arches of London Bridge.
Mr Croone [aged 28] to write to Dr Power about the trial of heat and cold in deep caves.
The Amanuensis to bespeak the long glass tube for the Torricellian Experiment.
Note 1. Not clear which Mr Boyle this is since Richard Boyle was elected 20th May 1663 and Robert Boyle [aged 36] on 22nd April 1663.
Minutes of the Royal Society. 18th June 1662. 83. Royal Society Meeting Minutes.
Mr Palmer showed the company three pieces of painted silk material
Mr Croone [aged 28] read Mr Evelyn's [aged 41] account of the Rowling press.
The Amanuensis to provide a box of blacking.
Dr Goddard [aged 45] set several pieces fo gold to anneal and showed their allays.
Mr Palmer to speak to Mr Grigory to come to the Society for the discourse fo the tinged stuffs.
Dr Goddard rea his account of the refining of gold by Antimony and Aqua Regis: It was ordered to be registered. [Note in margin; fol. 167]
Sir Robert Moray [aged 54] read his account of the sounding of the depths of water without a line. Ordered ti be registered. [Note in margin; for. 178]
The Operator to enquire of the length of time fishermen keep their fishes without feeding them.
Sir William Petty [aged 39] proposed a Standard for knowing the velocity of seimming bodies.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 14th November 1666. So took up my wife, her brother being yet very bad, and doubtful whether he will recover or no, and so to St. Ellen's [St. Helen's], and there sent my wife home, and myself to the Pope's Head, where all the Houblons were, and Dr. Croone [aged 33]1, and by and by to an exceeding pretty supper, excellent discourse of all sorts, and indeed [they] are a set of the finest gentlemen that ever I met withal in my life. Here Dr. Croone told me, that, at the meeting at Gresham College to-night, which, it seems, they now have every Wednesday again, there was a pretty experiment of the blood of one dogg let out, till he died, into the body of another on one side, while all his own run out on the other side2. The first died upon the place, and the other very well, and likely to do well. This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like; but, as Dr. Croone says, may, if it takes, be of mighty use to man's health, for the amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better body.
Note 1. William Croune, or Croone, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, chosen Rhetoric Professor at Gresham College, 1659, F.R.S. and M.D. Died October 12th, 1684, and was interred at St. Mildred's in the Poultry. He was a prominent Fellow of the Royal Society and first Registrar. In accordance with his wishes his widow (who married Sir Edwin Sadleir, Bart.) left by will one-fifth of the clear rent of the King's Head tavern in or near Old Fish Street, at the corner of Lambeth Hill, to the Royal Society for the support of a lecture and illustrative experiments for the advancement of natural knowledge on local motion. The Croonian lecture is still delivered before the Royal Society.
Note 2. At the meeting on November 14th, "the experiment of transfusing the blood of one dog into another was made before the Society by Mr. King and Mr. Thomas Coxe upon a little mastiff and a spaniel with very good success, the former bleeding to death, and the latter receiving the blood of the other, and emitting so much of his own, as to make him capable of receiving that of the other". On November 21st the spaniel "was produced and found very well" (Birch's "History of the Royal Society", vol. ii., pp. 123, 125). The experiment of transfusion of blood, which occupied much of the attention of the Royal Society in its early days, was revived within the last few years.
On 28th August 1670 William Croone [aged 36] was appointed anatomy lecturer on the muscles by the Company of Surgeons, which office he held until his death.
On 29th July 1675 William Croone [aged 41] was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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1680. Mary Beale aka Cradock [aged 46]. Portrait of William Croone [aged 46].
Before 12th October 1684 William Croone [aged 51] and Mary Lorymer were married.
On 12th October 1684 William Croone [aged 51] died.
After 12th October 1684 Edwyn Sadleir 2nd Baronet [aged 28] and [his wife] Mary Lorymer were married. She by marriage Lady Sadleir of Temple Disney in Hertfordshire.