Thomas Chamock

Charnock, Thomas. Chamock s Breviary of Alchemy. The breviary of naturall philosophy. Compiled by the unlettered Scholar Thomas Charnock. Student in the most worthy Scyence of Astronomy and Philosophy. The first of Ianuary Anno. Dom. 1557. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemv/ tcbbrev.htmll. 

Charnock, Thomas. "Fragments coppied from Thomas Chamock s owne handwriting." In Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, ed. Elias Ashmole, 424-426. 

Pritchard, Allan. Thomas Chamock s book dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. Ambix 26 (1979) 56-73. 

The first account of a long "lost" major work by the 16th-century alchemist Thomas Chamock, "A book dedicated unto the Queenes maiestie" (1565)... 

Taylor, Frank Sherwood. Thomas Chamock. Ambix 2, no. 3-4 (Dec 1946) 148-176. 

Thomas Chamock married in 1562 a Mss Agnes Norden. He died in 1581. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to say that his name does not appear in the history of Chemistry. 

Thomas Charnock was bom at Faversham (Kent), either in the year 1524 or in 1526. After some travels over England he settled at Oxford, carrying on experiments in Alchemy. In 1557 he wrote his Breviary of Philosophy. This work is almost entirely autobiographical, describing Chamock s alchemistic experiences. He tells us that he was initiated into the mysteries of the Hermetic Art by a certain James S. of Salisbury he also had another master, an old blind man, who on his death-bed instmcted Charnock. 

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