Fortunate Isles

Josephine Waters Bermett, Britain amorrg the Fortunate Isles , SfrirfreiinPhi/o/ogv 53.2 (April 1956), p. 123. 

Charnock was born in Kent, either in Faversham or the Isle of Thanet, probably in the year 1524. Charnock was a laboratory assistant to an alchemist named James Sauler, who passed on the secret to Charnock on his deathbed in 1554. However, Charnock suffered a major setback on NewYear s Day 1555, when a fire destroyed his laboratory. His fortunes revived when he was taught by one of Ripley s pupils, William Holloweye, the last prior of Bath Abbey before the dissolution of the monasteries. 

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