In the same year that man-midwife Peter Chamberlen
sought to form a corporation of midwives under his own control, HS
and a colleague, Mrs Whipp, headed a deputation to present a petition against him.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation
Hester Shaw
She was practising midwifery in London by about 1610, and probably received her licence from the bishop of London not long afterwards. In 1634 she was chosen joint leader of a group of sixty midwives...
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1634: Peter Chamberlen (perhaps the third of that...
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1634
Peter Chamberlen
(perhaps the third of that name) attempted to form a corporation of midwives with himself as governor; he did not succeed.