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  Son Michael Doyley b. abt 1579 Of Little St. Ba,London,England
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  III. Thomas D'Oyly, of London, M.D. a physician, and writer of eminence, progenitor (inter alios) of the D'Oylys of co. Kilkenny in Ireland, now of London.
  
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  Thomas D'Oyly, Esq. A.M. M.D. 3d son of John D'Oyly, Esq. of Greenland House, co. Bucks, by his wife Frances Edmonds,[476] was born in Oxfordshire about 1548, or earlier; and being entered of the University of Oxford, was elected Fellow Probationer of Magdalene College in 1563; in June 1564 proceeding A.B. though scarcely sixteen years of age; and A.M. Oct. 1569:[477]—the month following which, his father died, leaving him an annuity of 10l. yearly, and a legacy of 100l. payable at the death of his (Thomas's) mother. Soon after this Thomas D'Oyly selected the medical  profession, and, entering on the appropriate course of study, supplicated at Oxford for the M.B. degree in 1571, but unsuccessfully.[478] He therefore left the university; resolved to travel; and this in a civil as well as a medical capacity.[479] He inherited good abilities from his mother's ancestry, the Bledlows, Frowicks, and Starkeys, and eventually rose to distinction; for not only was he much patronized by Robert Dudley, the celebrated Earl of Leicester, but he was an intimate friend of Francis Bacon, afterwards the illustrious Lord Verulam; and, on going abroad, travelled for some time in company with Anthony Bacon his brother, as appears by a letter dated July 1580, from Francis Bacon, then a student at Gray's Inn, to Thomas D'Oyly, at Paris; in which Bacon signs himself D'Oyly's "very friend, "[480] The Bacon and D'Oyly families were, in fact, very intimate at this time; Thomas D'Oyly's eldest brother Sir Robert having married Elizabeth Bacon, half sister to Francis.— About 1581 Thomas D'Oyly took his M.D. degree at the University of Basil[481] in Germany, and was "Dr." D'Oyly most undoubtedly in 1582, for an endorsement by the Earl of Leicester on one of D'Oyly's letters to his Lordship, dated May 1582, at Antwerp, styles him "Doctor." In this letter D'Oyly writes that nobleman, at his Lordship's request, an account of a quarrel between General Norreys and one of Lord North's sons. and also mentions particulars of the siege of Oudenarde.[482] D'Oyly appears to have then held a medical appointment in the army at Antwerp. He continued some time abroad; and there are further letters from him to the Earl of Leicester, dated at Calais, 12th Nov. 1585, and 14th Nov. 1585, and at Flushing, 23d Nov. 1585. In the first he gives an amusing history of an adventure of himself and his "companye," who having put out shortly before from Graveling, were taken by the enemy not far from Dunkirk, and "rifled and ransacked of all they possessed;" he mentions, however, that they had found nothing belonging to himself but "Physic and Astronomic Books," he having "drowned all his Lordship's letters out of a porthole." From the "hell-hounds of Dunkirk," as he calls them, he had then just escaped to Calais.[483]— After this, Dr. D'Oyly returned to England, settled professionally in the city of London, soon obtained not only an extensive practice, but considerable eminence, and became M.D. to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and a Member of the College of Physicians; while being a man of high literary attainments, he took an important part in writing a work, entitled, "Bibliotheca Hispaniola," a Dictionary of Spanish, English, and Latin, published at London in 1591; ostensibly the production of one Richard Percyvall, gent.; yet, says à Wood, "with the aid of Dr. D'Oylie, who had a chief hand in it.''[484] In Dec. 1592, Dr. D'Oyly was incorporated M.D. of the University of Oxford.[485]— Before his death he had his revenge on the Governor of Dunkirk, for by a letter to Sir Robert Sydney, from Rowland White, Esq. his court agent, dated 1597, we find that the Governor of Dunkirk was then prisoner in D'Oyly's house in London.[486]—Dr. Thomas D'Oyly was trustee for the Sheepwash family of Hambleden, co. Bucks, in 38th and 44th Elizabeth, as appears by Pedes Finium of those dates. He died March 1602-3, and was buried in his hospital's church, St. Bartholomew's the Less, London:[487] having been a man of superior abilities, and one who must have been thought a very learned person in his day.—He married Anne, daughter of Simon Perrott, Esq. of North Leigh, Oxfordshire, A.M. and Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford, by Elizabeth his first wife, daughter of Edward Love, Esq. of Aynho, co. Northampton. Of this Simon Perrott it is remarkable, that, after his first wife bad borne him 18 children and died in childbirth in 1572, he remarried at the age of 71 and had a second family. These Perrotts were a respectable and talented family; and bore for arms, under a patent from Sir Gilbert Dethick, "Gules, 3 pears pendant or, on a chief argent a demi-lion rampant issuant sable."[488] by Anne his wife, Dr. D'Oyly had issue, 

Details of Thomas' family with Anne Perott