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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60776	A rebuke to the authors of a blew-book call'd, The state of physick in London which is indeed the black and blew state of physick, dated from the college, and signed by Th. G. and R.M. / written in behalf of the apothecaries and chirurgians of the city of London by William Salmon ...	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.	1698 (1698)	Wing S449; ESTC R22575	28,636	34

also some Question whether it be a true one or not for it seems not to be sealed with the right coloured Wax which ought to be yellow and with which all true Patents are commonly Sealed But supposing it be a true Patent it gives them no Power over Doctors of Physick who have actually taken their Degrees in Oxford and Cambridge nor have they a power to examine such who have accomplished all things for their Degrees without any Grace if so as it will be in vain for any one to take a degree in any of our Vniversities so it will make the College the greatest Monopoly in the World for as much as their skill or abilities tho' under so great a Probate as the Testimony and Seals of the Universities can be no qualification to privilege a Doctor of Physick to Practise in London and seven Miles round the same But they say This Patent is Confirmed by several Acts of Parliament But truly I cannot find yet that ever it was confirmed by one As for the pretended Act of 14 and 15 Henry VIII Cap. 5. I have seen and examined the Parliament Roll it self but in no part of the Act or Parchment upon which it is written neither on the foreside or backside nor on the top or bottom nor yet on either hand is the Royal Assent to be found which is of absolute necessity for the Constitution of an Act of Parliament if this be not true a Clark of Parliament who can draw the form of an Act may at the end of any Sessions of Parliament thrust what Unsign'd Acts he pleases or may be brib'd for into the Roll where having lain Dormant for some time or Number of years and being forgotten when in after Ages there shall be occasion to over-look the Rolls of Acts of Parliament they being found among the Number may by Posterity be taken for good Acts or Laws not questioning their Validity or how they came there tho' design trick or bribery were the very original Causes of their being found in that place and so at this rate a Clark of Parliament may Act Kings Lords and Commons all in his own Person to the great abuse and prejudice of the People of England their Lives Liberties Estates and Properties which thing for the great danger of it his Majesty and Parliament of England I hope will for the future be very careful of and this pretended Act thus obtruded upon the good People of this City and Nation I think ought to be look'd into and be rejected as a thing spurious and false and detrimental to our Constitution and Government As for that 1 Phil. Mary Ses 2. cap. 9. it is only a Confirmation of the former pretended Act. Now if that of 14 15 Henry VIII be no true Act then it is no Law and so is nothing and so the Confirmation of it is the Confirmation of no Law or of nothing and so in pleading can be of no use But let us examine a little farther and see how their Patent and pretended Act agree Their Patent says That the Community shall every year chuse a President out of the Community who shall transact all the Affairs of the College for his Year The pretended Act says that there shall be eight Elects and that every year the said Elects shall chuse a President out of the Elects Now let any Man of common Sense or Reason judge of these two and see how they agree If a President be chosen according to the Patent it Contradicts the Letter of the pretended Act. But if the President be chosen according to the words of the pretended Act it contradicts the very Letter of the Patent Now what Man in his Wits is there that cannot see that this pretended Act not having the Royal Assent was only a hasty Birth or unconsidered medly of Contradictions made to serve an End and that the Clerk not understanding possibly Latin made that gross mistake in wording his Act to the very great Detriment of the wicked Design Can any Man believe that so August and Wise Assembly of Men as a Parliament of England which are a Choice of all the Great Good and Wise Men of the Nation could be guilty of such a Heterogene piece of Work as that pretended Act is and word it so Incongruously or Contradictory to the Words of their Letters Patents thereby destroying in the one what is built up in the other And so confirm a Monopoly wonderfully prejudicial to the Lives Liberties Estates and Properties of the good People of England Surely No. But now to show you how much a Law this pretended Act is we will give you four famous Presidents of Cases tryed by it as to the very Merit of the Causes and thereby you may see what Validity it is of The First Instance we shall give you is that of the famous Dr. Trig who formerly lived upon Tower-Wharf whom they Sued and upon a fair Tryal at Law were as fairly Cast The Second Instance is that of Dr. Read who then Lived at the Sun in Long-Alley near Morefields This Man they Sued at Law also and the Merits of the Cause being Tryed they came as blewly off as before The Third Instance is that of Sir Richard Barker Kt. late of Barbacan London whom they Arrested and Sued in the King's-Bench This Gentleman as did the others before refusing to be Tryed by the Statute-Book as not being the Law it self but only a Copy of the Law requested to be Tryed by the Law of the Land which is the Act in the Parliament-Roll and was at the Charge and Expence of bringing the Parliament-Roll into Court so that the Book was rejected and the Roll it self only stood by upon which the Judge viewing the Act and not finding any where about it the Royal Assent told them in plain English that Judgment must go against them and that not finding the Royal Alsent to that Act upon which their Declaration was grounded he could not judge by it as a Law that it was not in his Power to make it a Law and that if they would have him to try the Cause by it as a Law they must first bring Henry VIII out of his Grave to Sign it and so the Cause went against them The Fourth Instance is that of Dr. Richard Fletcher which was Tryed at the King's-Bench in Guild-hall London Their Counsel brought their Green Bag wherein they had an Exemplification of some Tryal or Tryals which thro' the ignorance of those Defendents Lawyers went on the College-side But Mr. Wallop who was of Counsel for Fletcher put a stop as to the Issues being put upon their Green Bag and desired of my Lord that this our Cause might be Tryed by our Green Bag which when my Lord Chief Justice demanded what it was Wallop answered it was the Law of the Land and was as it appeared to be the Parliament-Roll which when his Lordship perused and found not the Royal Assent to