John Elliott, M.D. (

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1690) was a British physician, an adherent of James II.

Life

Elliott was created M.D. of the

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by royal mandate in 1681, and incorporated in that degree at the

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on 11 July 1683.Wood, Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 388, who describes Elliott as a member of Catherine Hall, Cambridge. Having been constituted a fellow of the

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by the charter of James II, he was admitted as such 25 June 1687, and at the general election of officers for that year he was appointed censor. Elliott spoke openly of the

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as a traitor and usurper. For publishing and dispersing on 10 June 1689 what purported to be ''A Declaration of His Most Sacred Majesty King James the Second, to all His Loving Subjects in the Kingdom of England'', "given at Our Court in

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the eighth day of May 1689 in the fifth year of our reign", he, along with Sir Adam Blair, Captain Henry Vaughan, Captain Frederick Mole, and Robert Gray, M.D., was impeached by the House of Commons of

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and other crimes and offences, and committed to Newgate Prison. After appearing at the bar of the

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, counsel were assigned him, and he was formally remanded, 4 July, to await the trial. No trial, however, took place. Elliott was detained in custody until 9 April 1690, when, by giving bail to the amount of £10,000, he regained his liberty. In the following December his bail was, upon his petition, ordered to be discharged. Elliott's name does not appear on the college list for 1693.

References

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