[1] Cesare Adelmare, having graduated in arts and medicine at the University of Padua, migrated to England, apparently about 1550, and began practice in London as a physician.

[2] He was appointed medical adviser to Queen Mary, from whom he obtained letters of naturalisation with immunity from taxation in 1558, and from whom he on one occasion received the enormous fee of £100 for a single attendance.

Elizabeth also consulted him and rewarded his services by sundry leases of church lands at rents somewhat below their actual value.

In 1561 he fixed his residence in Bishopsgate, having purchased a house which had formed part of the dissolved Priory of St. Helen's.

[4][5] The name of Caesar, by which the doctor was usually addressed by Mary and Elizabeth, was adopted by his children as a surname: Shortly after his death his widow married Michael Lok.