Richard was a canon of St. Paul's, in which church he held at one time the prebend of Ealdland, probably succeeding Roger Niger in 1229.
[b] He left bequests to various bodies, including the hospital of St James's, near London, to have prayers said for his soul.
1222), in his Compendium Medicinæ, says: Qui vetulo canos profert de pectore sensusRicardus senior, quem plus ætate seniliArs facit esse senem.
Who brings grey feelings from an old chest,Richard the elder, whomArt made more old than his age.
Gilbert the Englishman cites a treatise De Urinis as by Master Richard, one of the most skilful of all doctors.