Willis, Timothy

Ashm. 195, fo. 195 208, fo. 54 where the dare is given as 25 Nov. This might have been Timothy Willis, an alchemist who was himself called before rhe Censors in August 1596 Annals, 6 Aug. 1596, p. 102. See J. H. Appleby, Arthur Dee and Johannes Banfi Hunyades, 24 (1977), 96-109, esp. 99. 

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by Timothy B. Dyk, Willis J. Goldsmith, Stephen A. Bokat, and Robin S. Conrad for Concerned Women for America by Jordan W. Lorence, Cimron Campbell, and Wendell R. Bird for the Equal Employment Advisory Council et al. by Robert E. Williams, Douglas... 

Interest in alchemy was common throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and after Paracelsus the growth of iatrochemistry would have made it inevitable that a good proportion of the physicians seeking their fortune in Muscovy (and many were little more than adventurers) could have pretended to at least some alchemical doctrine, not to mention astrology and other arcane skills - indeed it seems to have been a required part of their qualifications Dr Timothy Willis, who was sent on a diplomatic mission to Moscow in 1599, reported on his return... 

Norman Evans, Doctor Timothy Willis and his Mission to Russia, 1599 , Oxford Slavonic Papers, n.s. 2 (1969), pp. 40-61 (61). 

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