> Why not continue to be Avraham haRofeh for formal > occasions, as physician to those with high position, ... Because Avraham's "formal" garb isn't going to be High Tudor. :-) At BEST (and remember that Jews were banished from England from the 13th century until Cromwell), it would be the "academic" garb common to scholars in that period. **************************************** Randall Cook of Northpass (soon to be Sudentur) mka Randy Goldberg MD