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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43867	His Most Sacred Majesties and His Most Honourable Privy Councils letters relating to the College of Physicians as likewise, a short account of the institution, use and privileges of that royal foundation.	James II, King of England, 1633-1701.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); England and Wales. Privy Council.	1688 (1688)	Wing H2088; ESTC R7870	6,129	15

His Most Sacred MAJESTIES And His Most Honourable Privy Councils LETTERS Relating to the College of Physicians As likewise A SHORT ACCOUNT Of the Institution Use and Privileges of that Royal Foundation By His Majesties Special Command LONDON Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1688. JAMES R. TRusty and Well-beloved We Greet you well We having lately Graciously given to you the President and Commonalty of Our College of Physicians in London Our Letters Patents confirming all former Grants of Our Royal Progenitors together with other Privileges and more ample Authority for suppressing all Illiterate and Illegal Practisers of the Art of Physick in Our City of London and seven Miles distance We have thought fit for the prevention of the great Damages and Inconveniences which our loving Subjects may be exposed to in their Healths and otherwise by the Vnskilfulness of the said Practisers to Will and Require You the President and Censors of Our said College and your Successors in Pursuance of Our said Letters Patents as also of the Laws and Statutes of Our Realm forthwith to do your utmost Diligence to Prosecute and Suppress all such Vnlearned and Vnlawful Practisers of Physick as shall presume to act contrary to Our said Letters Patents and to the Laws of the Realm in that Case provided And for your Encouragement therein We do require all our Judges Justices of the Peace and others whom it may concern to Countenance and Assist you the President and Censors in your Prosecution of such Offenders according to Law And for the more effectual doing thereof you are as occasion shall offer to demand the Aid and Assistance of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of Our City of London whom by Our Letters We have required to give you all Countenance and Assistance in the Execution of this Our Royal Will and Command Not doubting but that you will be careful to Suppress such Offenders and Answer the Trust in this Case committed to you And so We bid you farewell Given at Our Court at Windsor the Third day of July 1687. in the Third Year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command Sunderland P. To our Trusty and Well-beloved the President and Censors of Our College of Physicians in London JAMES R. TRusty and Well-beloved We Greet you well Whereas in the Reigns of Our Royal Progenitors of famous Memory sufficient Provision and Power hath been given and granted by several Charters and Acts of Parliament of Our College of Physicians in London for the Reforming and Suppressing all Vnlawful and Vnlearned Practisers of the Art of Physick in London and within seven Miles distance thereof And We having of late in Our Princely Wisdom thought fit to confirm and enlarge the said Charters by Our Royal Patent granted to the said College and resolving to see the said Charters and Acts of Parliament duly put in Execution have thought fit by these Presents to charge you the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Justices of the Peace within Our said City and the Precincts thereof that with all readiness you do Aid and Assist the President and Censors for the Time being of Our said College or such Officers as the President of the said College shall appoint in the doing of all such things as by the said Acts of Parliament or Charters ought to be done for the Suppressing of all and every such Person or Persons as contrary to the said Royal Charters and Acts of Parliament shall dare to adventure in the Practice of Physick upon any of Our Subjects in the City of London or the Suburbs and Precincts of the same And to the Intent that this Our Purpose tending to the Safety of Our Subjects and the Suppression of Vnlawful and Ignorant Practicioners may with more Diligence and Authority be effected VVe do Will and Command you the Lord Mayor of Our City of London that at your next Sessions these Our Letters may be so read and published that all Justices of the Peace as well within Our said City as also the Suburbs and Precincts of the same may take knowlege of this Our Pleasure and Command And so We bid you farewel Given at Our Court of Windsor the Third day of July 1687. and in the Third Year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command Sunderland P. To the Lord Mayor of Our City of London WHEREAS by the Laws and Statutes of the Realm Power is given to the President and Commonalty of the Faculty of Physick in London or to such as they the said President and College for the Time being shall according to the Statutes in that behalf made Authorize to have the Fine Search Correction and Government of all Persons using the Faculty of Physick in London and the Suburbs thereof and seven Miles distance and to punish all such as shall Vnlawfully Vse or Practise the said Faculty within the said Precincts contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of the Statute in that Case made with this further Authority That all Justices Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables and other Ministers and Officers within the City of London and Precincts aforesaid upon Request to them made should Help Aid and Assist the President of the said College and all Persons by the said President and Commonalty from time to time Authorized for the Execution of the Acts and Statutes in that behalf made upon Pain for not giving such Aid Help and Assistance to run in Contempt of the King's Majesty His Heirs and Successors And whereas there are sundry Vunskilful Persons within the Precincts and Limits aforesaid who do use and practise the said Faculty contrary to the Statutes of this Realm in that Case provided and to the great Peril and Danger of the Lives of many of His Majesties Subjects These are to Will and Require you and in his Majesties Name straitly to Charge and Command you that henceforth at all time and times you according to the Tenor of the said Act be Aiding and Assisting unto the said President and to those that shall be Authorized by the said President and College for the Apprehending of all such persons as shall Vnlawfully Vse and Practise the said Faculty within the Limits aforesaid contrary to the Intent and Meaning of the Statutes aforesaid when they or any of them shall given you Notice of and require it and thereupon to bring them before the said President or those Authorized as aforesaid to their College there to be Examined and Proceeded against as to the Law in that Case shall appertain Whereof fail you not as you or every of you will answer the Contempt in that behalft made Dated at the Court at Hampton Court the Sixteenth day of July 1687. Jefferys C. Sunderland P. Arundell C. P. S. Albemarle Peterborow Bath Middleton Craven Dartmouth Ormond Powis Mulgrave Phil. Musgrave To all Justices Mayors Sheriffs Bailifs Constables Head boroughs and all other His Majesties Officers and Ministers to whom this shall or may appertain within the City of London Suburbs and Liberties thereof and