31.12.1797 Carlisle, Dr Combe call - in Godwin's 1796 list at end of 1797 as Combe (Hor) / 2.1.1798 at Joseph Johnson's with Carlisle / 3.1.1798, 4.1.1798, 6.1.1798, 7.1.1798, 9.1.1798 (calls &c) / 27.7.1798 at Nicholson's / 24.8.1798 adv at Northcote's, meet Combe ph / 26.1.1799 calls / 8.12.1799 meet / 3.5.1800 adv at Nicholson's / 24.1.1802 3 Combes & Carlisle at Nicholson's / 28.5.1802 send to Combe / 31.5.1802, 7.6.1802, 11.6.1802, 17.6.1802 (calls &c) / 15.9.1802 call on (at Newbury) / 8.10.1802 calls / 9.10.1802 tea at his / 31.10.1802 Carlisle & Combe call / 2.11.1802 Carlisle calls, Combe & F(enwic)k / 10.11.1802 calls, go with him to ye Antiq Socy / 12.11.1802, 14.11.1802, 24.11.1802, 28.12.1802, 7.1.1803, 5.3.1803, 6.3.1803, 8.3.1803, 23.3.1803, 27.3.1803, 24.5.1803, 18.7.1803, 31.7.1803, 15.6.1804, 2.7.1804 (calls &c) / 3.7.1804 tea at his with Nicholsons, Mr & Mrs Combe / 3.7.1804 calls / 25.9.1804 Combe & Carlisle call / 30.9.1804, 1.11.1804, 30,11,1804, 27.12.1804 (calls &c) / 2.1.1805 Combes, Carlisle invited / 10.3.1805, 12.3.1805, 27.3.1805, 16.4.1805 (calls &c) / 8.6.1805 adv at Nicholson's / 1.8.1805 meet / 13.7.1806 Cbe at Nicholson's / 21.1.1807 Combe at Nicholson's / 19.6.1807, 13.7.1808, 19.12.1809 (calls &c) / 5.1.1825 B Combe calls / 17.11.1825 miss Combe at E Prentis's
Nearly all the above entries have been coded on the GD website to William Combe DNB 1742-1823 but they should nearly all be coded to Charles Combe DNB 1743-1817. William Combe may have been the Combe adv at Reveley's 27.12.1793 and the Combe adv at Northcote's on 24.8.1798 after which Godwin noted meet Combe ph(ysician) but there is no very strong reason for thinking they were William except that they were probably not Dr Charles Combe, as Godwin noted him in his 1796 list as Combe (Hor) - he had edited the Latin poet Horace - at the end of 1797, so that was the first meeting Godwin recalled. Combe appeared frequently with Carlisle, also with Nicholson and in one case with both. Godwin went with Combe in 1802 to the Antiquarian Society (Dr Charles was a member, William was not) and once "sent to" him which suggests his role as physician, though clearly Godwin had a social relationship with him as well. William Combe was also confined to the "Rules of the Fleet prison" for much of the period of the entries above. The Combe at Newbury in 1802 was probably Nathaniel Merriman Coombs, grocer of Newbury (his will PCC 1810 mentioned his father Jonathan), a member of Rev John Winter's independent congregation there. The two Combe entries in 1825 were clearly neither William or Charles as both dead by then. The 3 Combes at Nicholson's in 1802 may have been Dr Charles, his son Taylor Combe (DNB 1774-1826) and his daughter Priscilla who was to marry Thomas Tooke later that year on 8.9.1802 at St George Bloomsbury. Their mother Arthey had died in 1799 and Dr Charles married Sarah Morris at Lambeth St Mary on 10.10.1812. As Taylor Combe didn't marry till 1808, the Mr & Mrs Combe at Nicholson's in 1804 were probably a brother and sister-in-law of Dr Charles (his father had died in 1768). When his sister Dorothy Combe made her will (PCC 1810) in 28.3.1803 they had two brothers still living, Henry (born 1746) who had married Elizabeth Clarke at St Marylebone 6.11.1771, and Thomas law stationer of Bishops Court, Chancery Lane who may have been the Thomas Combe who married Lucy Hambleton of Wokingham at St James Paddington on 4.5.1802. However Thomas Combe's will (PCC1831) mentioned no wife or children, and I couldn't find any will for Henry Combe.