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Kedainiai Town Hall
A pharmacy was operating in the two part premise of the eastern housing of the town hall in 1653 - 1760 and the pharmacists apartment was located there. The pharmacy was operating in the northern part of the premises overlaid with wooden beams 5.1 meters in length 4.85 meters width and 2.1 meters in height. Two vaulted niches and doors were built with bricks in its northern wall which led to the gate of the vaulted town hall. One could enter the pharmacy through this door. In addition to various herbs and healing roots, one could acquire exotic spices, precious stones, various greases, incense, magic elixirs, dried frogs, snakes, lizards, and cockroaches. The pharmacist's apartment was 6.6 meters in length, 5.1 meters in width, and 2.2 meters in height in the southern part of the premises covered with a half cylinder bracket with lunettes. A wide vaulted niche was built with bricks in the southern wall, two low vaulted windows with shutters and a vaulted door leading to the Great Market. Thomas Chancellor pharmacy was mentioned first on 22 September 1653 in a letter by Duke Jonusas Radvila by which he addressed Head of Neighbourhood of Kedainiai Laurynas Kochanskis. The promise intended for the pharmacy and the apartment with a vaulted roof in the incomplete town hall was allocated to the Chancellor by the magistrate of Kedainiai. In 1655 Chancellor also became its member, thus taking up the court spokesman's office. In 1658, as the Chancellor died the pharmacy was rented by German pharmacist Jackubas Apeldornas who resided in the vaulted apartment. The pharmacy stopped operating in 1760 as the building of the town hall burned.
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