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Boyle, which I did, and discoursed about my eyes; and he did give me the best advice he could, but refers me to one Turberville, of Salsbury, lately come to town, which I will go to. He was a physician of some eminence, and, dying at Salisbury on the 21st April, 1696, aged eighty-five, he was buried in the cathedral, where his monument remains.
After the dissolution of the parliament, and the subsequent victory of the royalists, Shaftesbury's evidences, with Turberville, Smith, and others, addressed themselves to the ministers, and gave information of high treason against their former patron. * See Captain Wilkinson's Narrative. Shaftesbury was committed to prison, and his indictment was presented to the grand jury.
So home to supper and to bed. 23rd. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, and so to the office again all the afternoon, and then to Westminster to Dr. Turberville about my eyes, whom I met with: and he did discourse, I thought, learnedly about them; and takes time before he did prescribe me any thing, to think of it.
For instance, he asked Turberville whether he had ever been in his chamber in Paris; and put this question through the High Steward. "Yes, my Lord, I have," said Turberville. "What kind of a room is it?" asked my Lord. "I can't remember that," said Turberville, who before had sworn he had been in it many times. "No," said my Lord, "I dare swear you can't."
When he dealt with Turberville too, he did not do much better; for he stood continually upon little points of no importance such points as a witness may very well mistake as to where the windows of his house in Paris looked out, and whether the Prince of Conde lodged to right or left such little points as a lawyer would leave alone, if he could not prove them positively.
Turberville Turberville " he muttered thickly, staring stupidly at Carrington. "It's not a common name; you seem to have heard it before?" said the latter. A spasm of pain passed over the judge's face. "I I've heard it. The name is on the rifle, you say?" "Here on the stock, yes." The judge took the gun and examined it in silence.
Cassan, in his "Lives of the Bishops of Sarum," part iii., p. 103, has reprinted an interesting account of Turberville, from the "Memoir of Bishop Seth Ward," published in 1697, by Dr. Walter Pope. Turberville was born at Wayford, co.
The whole tribe of informers they applauded and rewarded: Jennison, Turberville, Dugdale, Smith, La Faria, appeared before them; and their testimony, however frivolous or absurd, met with a favorable reception: the king was applied to in their behalf for pensions and pardons: their narratives were printed with that sanction which arose from the approbation of the house: Dr.
Crenshaw, and I take it, too, it was before yours; he married a Beaufort." "So he did," said Crenshaw, "and there was one child, a daughter; she married a South Carolinian by the name of Turberville. I remember that, fo' they were married under the gallery in the hall. Great folks, those Turbervilles, rolling rich. My father was manager then fo' the general that was nearly forty years ago.
The chancellor, now created earl of Nottingham, was appointed high steward for conducting the trial. Three witnesses were produced against the prisoner; Oates, Dugdale, and Turberville.
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