corpora humana ad discindend anatomizand quod jure publico hujus regni furti homicidii vel cujuscunque felonie condemnatum mortuum fuerit vel que jure publico hujus regni furti homicidii vel cujuscunque felonie condemnat mort fuerint intra Comitatum Midd. vel infra Civitatem London predictam vel alibi ubicunque infra sedecim miliaria predict Civitatis prox in quocunque Comitatu sine impedimento nostri heredum vel successorum nostrorum aut vicecomitum Ballivorum servient ad clavam seu aliorum officiariorum aut subditorum nostrorum quorumcunque sive eorum alicujus Et Quod licebit eidem presidenti Collegii communitati predict successoribus suis aliis quibuscunque eorum assignatis medicine professoribus seu expertis eadem corpora secare dividere aliter pro voluntate judicio suo cum ea reverentia qua humane carni debetur tractare ad incrementum cognitionis medicine experimentum ejusdem ad salutem ligeorum nostrorum sine contradictione alicujus Et hoc absque ulla pecuniarum summa vel ullis pecuni arum summis pro eisdem reddend seu cuicunque solvend Proviso semper quod cum hujusmodi anatomia de tempore in tempus transacta perfecta fuerit predicta corpora sumptibus ipsorum presidentis successorum suorum debitis exequiis sepulture committaÌ„tur Eo Quod expressa mentio de vero valore Annuo aut de aliquo alio valore vel certitudine premissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos vel per aliquem Progenitorum nostrorum prefatis presidents Collegii sive communitati facultatis medicine Londini ante haec tempora factis in presentibus minime fact existit Aut aliquo statuto Actu ordinatione proclamacoe provisione sive restricoe inde in contrarium habit fact edit ordinat sive provis Aut aliqua alia re caussa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo quarto die Februarii Anno regni nostri septimo Per breve de privato sigillo c. Naylour Letters Pattents granted by King JAMES to the Colledge of Physicians in London dat 8. Octobr 15º regni sui JAmes by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all to whom these presents shall come greeting Whereas our most noble and Preamble renowned Predecessors King Henry the eight late King of this our Realm of England in his Princely wisdome deeply considering and by the example of forein well governed States and Kingdomes truly understanding how profitable beneficial and acceptable it would be unto the whole body of this Kingdome of England to restrain and suppress the excessive number of such as daily professed themselves learned and profound practisers in the Faculty of Physick whereas in truth they were men illiterate and unexperienced rather propounding unto themselves their private gain with the detriment of this Kingdome then to give relief in time of need And likewise duly considering that by the rejecting of those illiterate and unskilful practisers those that were learned grave and profound practisers in that Faculty should receive more bountiful reward and also the industrious Students of that profession would be the better encouraged in their studies and endeavours For these and many other weighty motives Recital of the Patent of incorporation causes and considerations our royal and Princely Predecessor King Henry the eight by his Letters Pattents bearing date at Westminster the three and twentieth day of September in the Tenth year of his reign of his especial grace and Princely favour did erect found and establish a Colledge Comminalty or Incorporation of Physitians in the City and Suburbs of London and for seven miles every way in distance from the same to be remain and have existence for ever and by the same Letters Pattents our aforesaid noble Predecessor did further give and grant unto John Chambre Thomas Linacre Ferdinando de Victoria Nicholas Halsewell John Francis and Robert Yaxley then learned discreet and profound practisers in the said Faculty of Physick in the foresaid City of London That they and all of the said Faculty of Physick of and in the foresaid City of London should for ever from thenceforth be in name and deed one Body Comminalty and Colledge And further by the said Letters Pattents did give and grant unto the said Colledge and Comminalty full power ability and authority for ever annually to elect and make one of the said Colledge or Comminalty to be President of the said Colledge Corporation and Comminalty And that the said President so elected and made and the said Colledge and Comminalty should have perpetual succession and a common Seal for the behoof and benefit of the said Presideut Colledge and Comminalty and their Successors for ever And also by the said Letters Pattents did further give and grant unto the said President Colledge and Com. minalty and their Successors divers and sundry other liberties priviledges immunities power ability and authority not only to and for the benefit advantage and commodity of the foresaid President Colledge and Comminalty and their Successors but also for the more certain and easier discovery speedy restraint and certain repressing of the before mentioned unskilful and illiterate practisers in the said faculty of Physick as aforesaid As by the foresaid Letters Patents remaining of record amongst other things therein contained more plainly and fully it doth and may appear Which said Letters Patents and Confirmed by Parliament 14. H. 8. all and every Grant Article and other thing contained and specified in the same were by Act of Parliament made in the xiiii year of the reign of our said noble predecessor King Henry the eight approved granted ratified and confirmed and clearly authorised and admitted by the same good lawful and available to the said body corporate and their successors for ever and that the best construction that might be invented should be made thereof and of every part and parcel thereof for the best benefit behoof power and authority of the foresaid President Colledge and Corporation of Physicians as aforesaid And further by other several Acts of Parliament divers and sundry other Priviledges liberties By other Acts. ability power and authority are and were established ordained given and granted unto the said President Colledge and Corporation of Physicians and their successors as by the said several Acts of Parliament thereof made more fully and at large it doth and may appear Sithence the making of which said Letters patents and several Acts of Parliament we do nevertheless daily find that divers enormities and abuses not as yet sufficiently provided for and New Abusâ—s reformed do abound and increase to the apparent damage of us and our loving Subjects of this
year all Offendors in the Faculty of Physick within the City of London and the Suburbs thereof and seven miles compass of the said City according to the authority in that behalf to us duly given by certain Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England made and granted to the said Colledge and Comminalty by the late King of famous memory King Henry the 8th bearing date the 23. day of September in the tenth year of his reign and one Act of Parliament made in the 14. year of the reign of the said late King Henry the 8th concerning Physicians where by the Letters Patents aforesaid and every thing therein are granted and confirmed And by vertue of the said Act of Parliament and Letters Patents aforesaid and one other Act of Parliament made in the first year of the reign of our late Soveraign Lady Queen Mary intituled An Act touching the Corporation of Physicians in London Did cause to be brought before us the sixth day of this instant September at our Colledge-house in Pater noster-Row in London one Christopher Barton and we have examined the said Christopher Barton and upon his examination and other due proofs we have found that the said Christopher Barton hath unskilfully practised the Art of Physick within the City of London and Precinct aforesaid upon the bodies of Richard Ballady of Aldermary Parish London Michael Knight of S. Botolphs Parish Aldgate London and the Childe of one Jane Bigge and some others in the moneth of January in the year 1638. contrary to the Lawes in that behalf made and provided whereupon we have imposed upon the said Christopher Barton a Fine of 20 l. for his evil practise in Physick aforesaid And we have also for the same cause sent you the Body of the said Christopher Barton willing and requiring you in the Kings Majesties name to receive and keep him in safe custody as prisoner there to remain at his own costs and charges without bayâ— or mainprize untill he shall be discharged of his said imprisonment by the President of the said Colledge and by such persons as by the said Colledge shall be there unto authorised according to the Statute in that behalf made and this our Warrant shall be your discharge Given at the said Colledge the eleventh day of September in the fifteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles Otwell Meverell Edm. Smith Lawr. Wright William Goddard To the Keeper of Woodstreet Compter London or his Deputy To Mr. John Penyall one of the Messengers of his Majesties Chamber in Ordinary to execute this Warrant Et haec est causa accepcois detenconis prefati Christophori Barton in prisona predct sub custodia nra corpus Cujus quidem Christophori coram prefat Dno Rege apud Westm parat habemus Being at the Bar the said 19. of October for that the Lord chief Justice Sir John Bramston was not present the other Judges present would not accept of Bayl which the said Barton tendred but suspended the matter untill Tuesday the 22. of October following Barton for that time was returned back and coming to the Bar again on the said Tuesday with his Councel and Bayl the Lord Bramston being then present my Lord demanded the return of the warrant which was neglected by the Clerks of the Court and left in the Crown Office in the Temple so my Lord would not proceed but respited the cause untill Thursday the 24. of October following when all parties appearing with Councel on both sides the Warrant and Return was read and the Cause debated and there the Court plainly declared that he should not be bayled it being against the Law and the Letter of the Warrant grounded upon the Statutes Then it was desired by Bartons Councel that he might go over to the Kings-Bench which also was denied because he was committed originally to the Compter in Woodstreet as appeared by the Warrant and so Barton was remanded by the Court to the said Compter and willed if he would have Liberty to submit to the Barton remitted to prison Colledge and make his peace there Barton being in Custody of the Serjeant that carried him up to the Bar eâ—â—â—ibited his humble Petition to the President and Censors the 25. of October signed with his own hand for abatement of part of his Fine and for his enlargement submitting in all things unto them whereupon the President and Dr. Meverell one of the Censors were contented to abate the half of his Fine of 20 l. and to accept of 10 l. the one half to be paid in hand which was paid and the other half at our Lady day next And so upon the 29. of October signed his discharge and set him at liberty he being put again before his enlargement into the said prison Termino Trinitatis anno octavo Caroli Regis in Banco Regis Crokes Reports the First Part. Butler versus the President of the Colledge of Physicians Pasc 7. Car. rot 519. ERror of a Judgment upon a Demurrer in the Common-Bench The first Error assigned was because the Record was Ad respondendum Domino Regi Praesidenti Collegii c. Qui tam pro Domino Rege quam pro seipso sequitur quod reddat eis sexaginta libras unde idem Praesidens qui tam c. dicit c. Whereas the Action ought to have been brought by the President only qui tam c. and not by the King and President c. sed non allocatur For being an Original Writ the Writ is most often so and sometimes the other way And they conceived it good both waies But Informations are alwaies that the party qui tam for the King quam pro seipso sequitur c. Vide Plowd 77. new Book of Entries 160. old Book of Entries 143. 373. The second Error was that the Replication was a departure from the Count For the Count sets forth That King Henry the eighth anno decimo Regni sui incorporavit per le Statut of decimo quarto Henrici octavi confirmavit the Colledge of Physicians by the name of the President c. that no man should practise Physick in London or within seven miles without Licence under the Seal of the Colledge upon penalty of 5 l. for every moneth that he so practised the one moity unto the King and the other unto the President of the Colledge to the use of the said Colledge And for that the Desendant not being allowed c. had practised Physick for twelve months in London The said Action was brought c. The Defendant pleads the Statute of tricesimo quarto Henrici octavi cap. 8. That every one who hath Science and experience of the nature of Herbs Roots and Waters or of the operation of the same by speculation or practise may minister or apply in and to any outward Sore Uncome Wound Aposthumations outward Swelling or Disease any Herb Oyntments Baths Pultes or Implaisters according to their cunning experience
their Maladies and to remove Leprosies amongst them and also to remove all fumes and smels which may offend or be prejudicial to their health as it appears by the several Writs in these several cases provided and so if a man be not right in his Wits the King is to have the Protection and Government of him lest he being infirm waste or consume his Lands or Goods and it is not sufficient for him that his Subjects live but that they should live happily and discharges not his Office if his Subjects live a life but if they live and flourish and he hath care as well of their Bodies as of their Lands and Goods for Health for the Body is as necessary as vertue to the minde and thâ— King H. 8. to express his extraordinary care of his Subjects made the said Act in the third year of his Reign which was the beginning of his Essence to that purpose and by the Common Law any Physician which was allowed by the University might practise and exercise the said faculty within any place within England without any dispensation examination or approbation of any but after the making of the said Act made in the third year of King H. 8. none may practise exercise or occupy as Physician or Chirurgeon within the City of London and seven miles of that if he be not first examined approved and admitted by the Bishop of London and the Dean of Pauls for the time being calling to them four Doctors of Physick or Chirurgeons c And that no practiser may occupy or exercise the said faculty out of the said Precincts if he be not first examined approved and admitted by the Bishop of the Diocess or in his absence by his Vicar general every of them calling unto him such expert persons in the said faculty as their discretions think covenient and the reason of this difference as he conceived was for that that in this City and the said Precincts the King and all his Councel and all the Judges and Sages of the Law and divers other men of quality and condition live and continue and also the place is more subject unto Infection and the aire more pestiferous and for that there is more necessity that greater care diligence and examination be made of those which practised here in London and the Precincts aforesaid then of those which practise in other places of the Realm for in other places the people have better air and use more exercise and are not so subject to Infection and for that there is no cause that such care should be used for them for they are not in such danger and in the Statute there is not any exception of the Universities nor of those which are Graduats there and for that they shall be tryed by the said Act and the Statute of 14. H. 8. chapter 5. only excepts those which are Graduats of Oxford or Cambridge which have accomplished all things for the form without any Grace and if this Exception shall be intended to extend to others then all the University shall be excepted by that and such exception was too general and over he said that the Plaintiff gave absurd and contemptous answer when he being cited before them said that he would not be ruled nor directed by them being such grave and learned men and for that that he hath practised against the Statute he was worthily punished and commited for it should be a vain Law if it did not provide punishment for them that offend against that and Bracton saith Nihil est habere Leges si non sit unus qui potest Leges tueri and for this here are four grave and discreet men to desend and maintain the Law and to punish all Offenders against that according to the Statute by Imprisonment of their Bodies and other reasonable waies and the said four men have the search as well of those men as of other Mediciners and the Statute of 1. Marie provides that the Keepers of Prisons shall receive all which are committed by the said four grave and learned men and though there be great care committed to them by the said Statute and the said Letters Patents yet there is a greater trust reposed in them then this for we commit to them our lives when we receive physick of them and that not without cause for they are men of Gravity Learning and Discretion and for that they have power to make Lawes which is the Office of the Parliament for those which are so learned may be trusted with any thing and for the better making of these they have power to assemble all the Commons of their Corporation and the King allowes of that by his Letters Patents for it is made by a Congregation of wise learned and discreet men and the Statute of 1. Marie inflicts punishment upon Contempts and not for any other offences and they held a Court and so may commit as every other Court may for a contempt of common right without Act of Parliament or Information or other legal form of proceeding upon that as it appears by 7. H. 6. for a contempt committed in a Leet the Steward committed the Offender to Prison and it was absurd to conceive that the Statute will allow of commitment without cause and it is a marvelous thing that when good Lawes shall be made for our health and wealth also yet we will so pinch upon them that we will not be tried by men of experience practise and Learning but by the University where a man may have his Degree by grace without merit and so for these reasons he concluded that this Action is not maintainable Coke chief said that the Cause which was pleaded Coke for that the Plaintiff was committed was for that that he had exercised Physick within the City of London by the space of a Moneth and did not very fitly answer for which it was ordained by the Censors that he should pay a hundred shillings and that he should forbear his practise and that he did not forbear and then being warned of that and upon that being summoned to appear did not appear and for that it was ordained that he should be arrested and that after he was summoned again and then he appeared and denied to pay the hundred shillings and he said that he would practise for he was a Doctor of Cambridge and upon that it was ordained that he should be committed till he should be delivered by the Doctors of the Colledge and upon this was the Demurrer joyned and in pleading the Plaintiff said that he was a Doctor of Philosophy and Physick upon which the Lord took occasion to remember a saying of Galen that is ubi Philosophia desinit ibi medicina incipit and he said the only question of this case depends not upon the payment of the said hundred shillings but upon the words of the Letters Patents of the King and the said two Statutes the words of which are Concessimus
within the City of London except he be a Freeman of the same Corporation and Company And furthermore at such times as have been heretofore accustomed there shall be chosen by Four Wardens shall be chosen and their authority the same Company four Masters or Governors of the same Corporation or Company of the which four two of them shall be expert in Chirurgery and the other two in Barbery which four Masters and every of them shall have full power and authority from time to time during their said office to have the oversight search punishment and correction of all such defaults and inconveniences as shall be found among the said Company using Barbery or Chirurgery as well of freemen as foreins aliens and strangers within the City of London and the circuit aforesaid after their said discretions And if any person The forfeitures of the offenders or persons using any Barbery or Chirurgery at any time hereafter offend in any of these Articles aforesaid then for every moneth the said persons so offending shall lose forfeit and pay five pounds the one moity thereof to the King our Soveraign Lord and the other moity to any person that will or shall sue therefore by action of debt bill plaint or information in any the Kings Courts wherein no wager of law essoine or protection shall be admitted or allowed in the same Provided that the said Barbers and Chirurgeons and every of them shall bear and pay lot and scot and such other charges as they and their predecessors have been accustomed to pay within the said City of London this act nor any thing therein contained to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided alway and be it enacted by authority Any person may keep a Barber or Chirurgeon as his servant aforesaid that it shall be lawful to any of the Kings Subjects not being Barber or Chirurgeon to retain have and keep in his house as his servant any person being a Barber or Chirurgeon which shall and may use and exercise those arts and faculties of Barbery and Chirurgery or either of them in his masters house or elsewhere by his Masters license or commandement any thing in this Act above written to the contrary notwithstanding Anno xxxiiii xxxv Henrici octavi CAP. VIII Any person being no common Chirurgeon may minister outward medicines WHere in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the third year of the Kings most Gracious reign amongst other things for the avoiding of sorceries witchcrafts and other inconveniencies it was enacted That no person within the City of London nor within seven miles of the same should take upon them to exercise and occupy as Physician or Chirurgeon except he be first examined approved and admitted by the Bishop of London and other under and upon certain pains and penalties in the same Act mentioned Sithence the making of which said Act By what means the Chirurgeons of London have abused the Statute of 3. H. 8. 11. for their own gain the company and fellowship of Chirurgeons of London minding only their own lucres and nothing the profit or ease of the diseased or patient have sued troubled and vexed divers honest persons as well men as women whom God hath endued with the knowledge of the nature kind and operation of certain herbs roots and waters and the using and ministring of them to such as been pained with customable diseases as womens brests being sore a pin and the web in the eye uncomes of hands scaldings burnings sore mouthes the stone strangury saucelim and morfew and such other like diseases and yet the said persons have not taken any thing for their pains or cunning but have ministred the same to poor people only for neighbourhood and Gods sake and of pity and charity And it is now well known that the Chirurgeons admitted will do no cure to any person but where they shall know to be rewarded with a greater sum or reward then the cure extendeth unto for in case they would minister their cunning unto sore people unrewarded there should not so many rot and perish to death for lack of help of Chirurgery as daily do but the great part of Chirurgeons admitted been much more to be blamed then those persons that they trouble For although the most part of the persons of the said craft of Chirurgeons have small cunning yet they will take great sums of money and do little therefore and by reason thereof they do oftentimes impair and hurt their patients rather than do them good In consideration whereof and for the ease comfort succour help relief and health of the Kings poor Subjects inhabitants of this his Realm now pained or diseased or that hereafter shall be pained or diseased Be it ordained established and enacted by the authority of this present Parliament that all time from henceforth it shall be lawful to every person being the Kings Subject having knowledge and experience of the nature of herbes roots and waters or of the operation It shall be lawful for any person to cure outward sores notwithstanding the Statute of 3. H. 8. 11. of the same by speculation or practise within any part of the Realm of England or within any other the Kings Dominions to practise use and minister in and to any outward sore uncome wound apostemations outward swelling or disease any herb or herbs oyntments bathes pultes and emplasters according to their cunning experience and knowledge in any of the diseases sores and maladies beforesaid and all other like to the same or drinks for the stone and strangury or agues without suit vexation trouble penalty or losse of their goods the foresaid Statute in the foresaid third year of the Kings most Gracious reign or any other Act Ordinance or Statute to the contrary hereof heretofore made in any wise notwithstanding Anno primo MARIAE Sessio secunda CAP. IX The Incorporation of Physicians in London WHereas in the Parliament holden at London the fifteenth day of April in the fourteenth year of the reign of our late Soveraign Lord King Henry the eighth and from thence adjourned to Westminster the last day of July in the fifteenth year of the reign of the same King and there holden It was enacted that a certain Grant by Letters Pattents of incorporation made and granted by our said late King to the Physicians of London and all clauses and Articles contained in the same Grant should be approved granted ratified and confirmed by the same Parliament For the consideration thereof be it enacted by A confirmation of the St. of 14. H. â— 5. touching the Corporation of Physicians of London authority of this present Parliament that the said Statute or act of Parliament with every article and clause therein contained shall from henceforth stand and continue still in full strength force and effect Any Act Statute Law Custome or any other thing made had or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for the
upon him for the same offence And we do further of our especial grace Grant of fines to the Colledge certain knowledge and meer motion for us our heirs and successors give and grant unto the foresaid President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors all and singular the fines and amerciaments penalties and forfeitures and every of them hereafter to be forfeited assessed or imposed upon any Physician or practiser in physick as aforesaid or to be forfeited imposed or assessed upon any Apothecary Druggist or other person or persons for or by reason of any misdemeanor offence contempt oâ— default whatsoever before in these presents declared mentioned or specified and that the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors shall and may by the name of the President and Colledge of the faculty of Physick within the City of London at all times hereafter and from time to time in any Ouâ— Courts of Record according to Our Lawes sue for recover levie and take execution of and for the said fines amerciaments penalties and forfeitures and every or any part thereof and the same being recovered and levied to have take retain and enjoy to the only use behoof and benefit of the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors without the let disturbance or interruption oâ— Us Our heirs or successors or any of the officers or ministers of us our heirs or successors and without giving or rendring any accompt or recompence thereof to us our heirs or successors And that if any offender upon whom any such fine or amerciament Imprisonment of such as pay not their Fines shal be imposed shall be present before the four Censors or any three of them at the time of such fine or amerciament imposed and shall not then pay the same That then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said four Censors or any three of them by whom such fine or amerciament shall be imposed to commit such offender to prison and detain him in prison untill he shall have satisfied the said fine or amerciament and no longer And further we will and by these presents for us our heirs and successors of our especial grace To have a Hall and favour do grant unto the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors that it shall and may be lawful to and for them or the greater part of them to have appoint retain and enjoy a certain Hall or Councel house within our City of London or the Liberties of the same And that the said President for the time being and his Successors shall and may when and as often as to him shall seem meet and necessary call assemble and keep within the same Hall or House a certain Court or Convocation of the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors to the number of Six persons or more whereof the said President for the time being to be alwaies one And that in the same Court or Convocation the same President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors to the number of Six persons or more whereof the President for the time being to be one shall and may treat confer consult and consider of Arcicles Meetings by whom and for what Statutes Acts and Ordinances touching and concerning the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors and the good rule staâ—e and government of the same and the reformation and redress of the abuses mischiess and enormities herein before mentioned and hereby intended and meant to be provided for and suppressed in the time to come And further we will and by these presents for us our heirs and successors do grant to the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors That the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors to the number of Six persons or more whereof the said President for the time being to be alwaies one upon publique summons thereof first made being assembled together in their said Hall or house shall and may have full power and lawful authority from time to time to ordain constitute make and set down in writing such wholsome and reasonable Acts Ordinances Orders Decrees To make By-lawes Articles and Constitutions as to the said Six persons or more of them so assembled or the greater part of them so assembled whereof the said President to be one shall seem good profitable and necessary according to their good directions for the good rule order and government of the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors and of all other practisers of Physick and other the persons before named and all others offending in the said faculty or any other way touching or concerning the same for the reformation and redress of the abuses deceipts misdemeanors and enormities and other the premises herein before mentioned or expressed And that the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors to the number of six persons or more whereof the said President to be one shall and may punish all and every delinquent or offender against the same Acts Ordinances Orders Decrees and Constitutions or any of them by imprisonment of his and their bodies or by fine and amerciament to be by them as aforesaid adjudged imposed and inflicted from time to time as need shall require And that the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors shall and may lawfully levy receive have and take the said fines and amerciaments to their own proper use benefit and behoof without the impeachment Fines to be paid to the Colledge or impediment of us our heirs or successors or of any the officers or ministers of us our heirs or successors and without any accompt to us our heirs or successors to be rendred or made for the same other then the rent hereafter reserved All which said Acts Statutes Ordinances Articles and Constitutions so as aforesaid to be made we will shall be observed and kept under the pains and penalties in the same to be limited and contained so as the same Acts Statutes and ordinances imprisonments fines and amerciaments be not contrary or repugnant to the Lawes and Statutes of this our Realm of England And further we will and by these presents for us our heirs and successors do grant to the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors That they and their successors or the greater part of them assembled together in their said Hall shall and may nominate elect and appoint one honest and discreet person which A Register his Office shal be and be called the Register to the said Colledge who shall from time to time be attendant on the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors at their Assemblies Courts Congregations or meetings and shall set down in writing register and enter into a Book all such rules orders statutes decrees acts ordinances and other things as shall from time to time be
and assented unto for the better enabling authorizing and investing of the said President or Colledge and Comminalty and their Successors to and with the several grants powers priviledges authorities exemptions immunities and other matters and things in these presents to them given granted and confirmed or intended to be to them given granted or confirmed according to our gracious intent and meaning herein before specified and expressed And further we will and by these presents for us our heirs and successors do grant unto the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and A farther Confirmation of this Chaâ—ter their Successors That these our Letters Patents and all and singular the gifts grants authorities powers priviledges and immunities and other things therein contained shall be good firm available and effectual in the law to the intents and purposes aforesaid and shall be in all and every our Courts of Record and elswhere had taken construed and adjudged most strongly against us our heirs and sucessors and most benignly favourably and beneficially to and for the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors any Statute Act Ordinance Custome Usage Gift Grant or any other matter or thing heretofore had made used ordained or provided to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Nevertheless we will and our intent and meaning is That the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors shall answer and pay to us our heirs and successors for and in respect of the fines amerciaments penalties forfeitures and sums of money herein before mentioned and by these presents to them granted as aforesaid the yearly Rent of Six pounds of lawful Six pound Rent to the King money of England at the Receipt of our Exchequer at Westminster at the Feast of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary and St. Michael the Archangel by even and equal portions any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Although express mention of the true yearly value or certainty of the premises or any of them or of any other gifts or grants by us or any of our progenitors or predecessors to the foresaid President and Colledge or Comminalty heretofore made in these presents is not made or any Statute Act Ordinance Provision Proclamation or Restraint to the contrary thereof heretofore had made ordained or provided or any other matter cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the eighth day of October in the fifteenth year of our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the one and fiftieth Yonge Per bre de privato Sigillo Irr. in memorand Scacc. de Anno octavo Regis nune Caroli viz. inter Record de termino sci Michis Ro. Ex parte Reverend dci dom Regis In magno Rotulo de Anno 23. Regis Caroli London PResidens Colleg. Coitas Medicor Lond. deb 27 l. 10 s. medietas 55 l. versus Johannem Bugge de parochia Ecclie Xpi London recuperat per Judicium Cur. quia exercuit facultatem Medicin per spatium xi mens integr non existen admissus ad exercendum occupand dict facultat medicin per President Collegium seu Communitat facultat Medicin London lris sigillo suo comui sigillat contra formam statuti iu hmoi casu edit provis super ipos onerat virtute Ordinis hujus Scacc. dat tertio Julii Anno 15 to Regis Caroli But the said sum of 27 l. 10 s. is allowed to the President and Colledge of the Faculty of Physick within the City of London by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the 8. day of October in the 15. year of the late King James of England and of Scotland the 51. and by Judgment of the Barons of this Court of publique Exchequer entred among the Records of Easter Term in the 7. year of the reign of the late King Charles in the custody of the first Remembrancer there Roll the 24. And they are quit Examined by Hen. Croke Clerk of the Pipe The Common Law against them that practice being not admitted SI un que nest Physition ou Surgeon emprent sur luy un cure que murrust in sa main que cest felonie Stanford Pleas of the Crown cap. 9. Fitz Herbert tit Cor. pag. 311. Briton fol. 14. Which Dalton thus Englisheth And if one which is no Physician or Surgeon or which is not allowed to use or practise such Faculty will take a cure upon him and his Patient dieth under his hand this hath been holden to be felonie Lambard Eiren. tit Felonie saith thus That Thorpe 43. Edw. 3. 33. saith he knew one to be indited accordingly But if this should be drawn to felony then I see not but that the same must be accounted murther in respect either of the bold presumption or of the will to do harm which doth amount to malice And Dalt in his Countrey Justice chap. 93. querieth thus of this Case It cannot be discerned whether the Patients death cometh by any wilfull default in the party taking such Cure upon him or by the Patients infirmities Again there appeareth in them no will to do harm but rather to do good and then the Stat. 34. Hen. 8. cap. 8. leaveth so great a liberty of such practise to unskilful persons that it will be hard now to make it felony A Copy of an Exemplification of a Recovery against Edmund Gardiner 11. Feb. 6. Jac. JAcobus dei Gra. Angl. Scot. Fran. Hibernie Rex fidei defensor c. OÌ„ibus ad quos presentes lÌ„re nÌ„re pervenerint saltem inspeximus quoddam Recordum coram nobis hitum in hec verba ss Plita coram dno Rege apud Westm Termino sci Michis anno Regni dom Jacobi nunc Regis Anglie tertio Rotlo 438. ss London ss memorand quod al 's scilt Termino sce Trinitatis ultimo preterit Coram dno Rege apud Westm ven Thomas Langton in Medicinis Doctor Presidens Collegii sive Coitatis facultatis Medicine London qui tam pro dno Rege qm pro seipo Collegio predcto sequitur per L. G. Atturnat suum Et protulit hic in Curia dct dom Regis tunc ibm quandam billam suam versus Edmundum Gardiner in Custod Marr. c. de plito debi sunt pleg de proc scilt Johes Doo Ricus Roo Que quidem billa sequitur in hec verba ss Londn ss Thomas Langton in Medicinis Doctor Presidens Collegii sive Coitatis facultatis Medicine London qui tam pro dno Rege quam pro seipo Collegio predco sequitur queritur de Edmundo Gardiner in Custod Marr. maresc dni Regis coram ipo Rege existen de plico quod reddat eidem dno Regi ac prefat Presiden Collegio predco Sexaginta libras legalis mouete Anglie quas eis debet injuste detinet pro eo viz.
which words as it appears by all other Acts passed in the same Roll and as Mr. Clayton one of the keepers of the Parliament Rolls told me in all other Acts made it manifest were passed by the King himself being personally present in Parliament Upon farther search at the Rolls I found the Act of Parliament its self and had it exemplified under the Seal Dec. 18. 1658. So that the Charter its self is in one Roll and the Act of Parliament in another distinct Roll. Now as to that objection that these words le Roy le veult are not subscribed to this Act concerning Physicians I answer that neither were these words subscribed to some Acts preceding this nor to any that followed it And at the end of all this Roll 't is said the King having heard all the Acts recited and read did confirm them and commanded the Parliament to see them all observed Rastals and Poultons Statute Books our Charter and Exemplification have all of them per Nomina Praesidentis Collegii seu Communitatis c. But in Bonhams Case in Cooks Reports 't is per Nomina Praesidentis Collegii 'T was the opinion of two of our Councel that Et would make a variation and nonsuit consequently They both said that for the Tithes of London and Magna Charta there was nothing extant but prescription If a Statute be special particular or private as this of the Colledge is then if any man will have benefit by or make use of it or will charge another upon it he must plead and shew the Statute at large vide Shepard in folio pag. 917. Crompton fol. 15. 1617. Lord chief Baron Steele at a Plea holden at Kingston upon Trent 1655. the Action being laid in Nomine Praesidentis Collegii seu Communitatis c. and the Defendants pleading it ought to run according to Cooks Reports in Nomine Praesidentis Collegii salved it thus by saying there was to be put a Comma after Praesidentis betwixt it and Collegii and so did tantamount to Praesidis Collegii At a Trial at Guild-hall against Trigge for ill practise Judgment for Trigge because the Colledge could not prove what Medicines he gave for he made his Medicines privately himself Blank for ill practise fined by the Censors 20 l. and upon a habeas corpus was remitted to prison and paid the Fine Ann. l. 2. pag. 186. Trigge fined by the Censors for a Paracentesis 20 l. sent to Newgate and paies the 20 l. 14 15. H. 8 By Easter Record 1656. first draught BE it remembred that the President of the Colledge or Comminalty of the faculty of Physicians in London who followeth as well for Charles by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. as for himself did come before the Barons of this Exchequer the 6. day of June this Term in his own person and as well for the said King as for himself did give the Court here to understand and to be informed That one Richard Barker of the Parish of St. John the Baptist in the Ward of Dowgate London Gent. between the first day of July last past and the day of the exhibiting of this Information that is to say by the space of 11. months at the Parish of St. John Baptist aforesaid did exercise the faculty of Physick the said Richard Barker not being admitted to exercise the said faculty of Physick by the said President and Comminalty by Letter of the said President and Comminalty sealed with their common Seal contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided whereupon the said President as well for the said King as for himself prayeth the advice of the Court in the premises And the said Richard Barker for the offence aforesaid may forfeit 55 l. of lawful money of England that is to say for every month of the said 11. months in which he did exercise the said faculty of Physick not being admitted in form aforesaid 5 l. of like lawful money of England And that he the said President may have the moiety of the forfeiture aforesaid according to the form of the Statute aforesaid and that the said Richard Barker may come here to answer the premises SEcretary Walsingham writes a Letter in 88. to the Major and Aldermen of London who had then charged the Colledge with Armes that they should no more trouble them hereafter but should permit them to live quietly and free from that charge L. Annal. 1. cap. 67. Anno 1614. October 4. the Colledge being charged with Arms Sir William Paddy pleaded the priviledge of the Colledge before Sir Thomas Middleton Lord Major and a full Court of Aldermen and Sir Henry Montacue Recorder alledging that in former times by vertue of their Charter and Acts of Parliament they have been exempted from this service and that 1. The Statute 14. H. 8. confirms not only all Grants Articles and other things contained in the said Letters Patents but also for enlargement of farther Articles for the said Colledge are to be interpreted available to the said Colledge in as large and ample manner as may be taken thought and construed by the same 2. In Anno 32. H. 8. they and every of them of the said body corporate or fellowship and their successors shall at all time and times be discharged to keep any watch or ward in London or the Suburbs of the same Here observe the word any which in true right of construction was to be extended as if that clause had been in more words expressed 3. In the Act for the Chirurgeons in the first entrance there are these words It was thought expedient by the wisdome of the land to provide for men expert in the science of Physick and Chirurgery And therefore when it followeth in their Act of Parliament that the Chirurgeons by express words are exempted from the bearing of armour it may truly be inferred that Physicians are exempted as before from any watch or wards as also Physicians here recited in the preamble should receive a greater or at least the same immunity especially since Physicians are by their Science and Act of Parliament Chirurgeons without farther examination and approbation to be had from the Bishop of London whereunto mere Chirurgeons are subject An Alderman objects that by the words of this Act of Parliament viz. bearing of Armour were to free their persons but not to exempt them from the charge of the service Answer That the difference 〈…〉 and wearing of arms was such that the very Etymon of the word bearing as in many other cases comprehended both and therefore should give immunity for both 4. In all foreign or domestick wars Physicians do attend the Armies in person and for this produceth the regigister The Recorder then perusing every branch of the Statutes recited and the reasons urged and opening every part thereof at large did conclude that the Acts of Parliament did extend to give to
the Colledge as much immunity as in any sort to the Chirurgeons Whereupon the Court desired a Catalogue of the Members of the Colledge in number then 41. which was immediately done that others not of the Colledge might not delude them and so claim priviledge Hereupon ordered a dispensation of the Colledge from bearing of Arms and also a precept then awarded by the Major and Court to commit all other Physicians or Chirurgeons refusing to bear or find arms who were not by the Colledge allowed or Chirurgeons licenced according to form L. 2. Annal. pag. 17 18. Rot Parl. 32 H. 6. M. 17. REx adversa valetudine laborans de assensu Consilii sui assignavit Joannem Arundel Joannem Saceby W. Haâ—cliffe medicos Robertum Warren Joan Marshal Chirurgos ad libere ministrandum exequendum in circa personam suam Inprimis viz. quod licitè valeant moderare sibi dietam suam quod possint ministrare potiones syrupos Confectiones laxativas medicinas clysteria supositoria caput purgia gargarismata lealnen epithemata fomentationes embrocationes capitis rasuram unctiones emplastra cerata ventosa cum scarificatione vel sine Emorodorum Scarificationes c. Dante 's singulis in mandatis quod in executione praemissorum sint intendentes c. Upon this four things are to be observed 1. That no Physick ought to be given to the King without good warrant 2. This Warrant ought to be made by advice of his Councel 3. They ought to minister no other Physick then that is set down in writing 4. That they may use the aid of those Chirurgeons named in the Warrant but of no Apothecary but to prepare and do all things themselves c. And the reason of all this is the precious regard had of the health and safety of the King which is the head of the Common-wealth Cokes institutes pars 4. pag. 251. Physicians Chirurgeons soient sages en lour faculties eyent sans les consciences cy que rien ne ent failli a faire cure silz ne scavoyent a bone chiefe mitter ou silz a bon chiefe scavâ—yent entre-mettent nequidant follement ou negligentment issent que ilz mittont froid pur chaude ou le revers ou trop peu de cure ou nemi mitter un due diligence nosmement en arsons ad abscissions que sont defend a faire forsque al peril des mesters si lour patients morerent ou perdent memorie en tiels cases sont ilz homicides ou Mayhemers Mirror cap. 4. § de Homicide verb daut ' part To Our trusty and welbeloved the President and Censors of the Colledge of Physicians within the City of London JAMES REX TRusty and welbeloved We greet you well Whereas the Art of Physick by many unlearned men making gain by the profession thereof to the great hurt and prejudice of many of Our loving subjects is much abused in many places of this Our Realm but especially in our City of London and the Suburbs thereof the government whereof as touching the practise of the said Art and the practitioners thereof being by the Lawes and Statutes of the Realm committed unto you the President and Censors of our Colledge of Physicians and you having also from us by our Letters Patents more ample authority for the suppression and correction of such delinquents We therefore minding so far as in us lieth the speedy reformation of all such abuses and inconveniences do by these presents as heretofore yet more strictly charge and command you the President and Censors aforesaid to call before you all such irregular and ignorant practitioners as contrary to our Lawes and authority do abuse that Art and to examine their sufficiency and such as you shall find not sufficient to punish for their bad practise according to our Lawes in that case provided And Whereas we are credibly given to understand that many having been punished and warned by you to desist from any further practise do yet obstinately notwithstanding persist in their former contempt of our Lawes and commandments We will and command you that you proceed against such delinquents with all severity according to the tenor of our said Letters Patents and the due course of our Lawes by fine and imprisonment or by causing them to enter into recognizance with condition restraining them to offend any more or otherwise as the case shall require and shall be agreeable to justice And our will and pleasure is that such offenders as shall be so imprisoned shall there remain without being enlarged unless it be upon their conformity and submission to you the said president and Censors or other due course of Law wherein we require all our Judges and Justices that they be very careful and circumspect not to do any thing that may give encouragement to such offenders by enlarging any such too easily or without due examination of the causes of their commitment first calling thereto the said President and Censors or some of them to declare the true reasons and causes thereof And whereas we are given to understand that oftentimes upon the solicitation of some or other friend or person of quality sutor to you for the said delinquents after their conviction you have been moved to wink at their faults and neglect their punishment to the great prejudice of the health of many our poor subjects Our will and pleasure is and we do hereby straightly charge and command you that henceforth neither for favour friendship or respect of any you forbear the just censure and punishment due by our Lawes unto such delinquents as you shall answer to us on the contrary at your peril and that you require the aid and assistance of the Lord Major and Aldermen of our City of London whom by our Letters we have so required to do for your better expedition in the execution of this our Royal Will and Commandment not doubting but that you with more care will seek to suppress such intolerable abuses and satisfie our trusts in this case committed to you Given under our Signet at our Pallace of Westminster the second day of July in the twentieth year of our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the five and fiftieth The Kings Councel about the same time send a Warrant for Attachment of Empericks directed to all Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs Baileys Constables Headboroughs and all other his Majesties Officers and Ministers within the City of London and seven miles Butler made extraordinary Chirurgeon to the King was permitted by the Lord Keeper to be sued Annal. pag. 97. Blank had a Habeas Corpus 1637. but by the Judges was sent back to prison having been fined by the Censors 20 l ob malam praxia though he had Letters Patents from the Archbishop of Canterbury A Brief of what King James granted and defective in former Grants 1. THat whereas they were by the former Act enabled to keep Courts and Convocations and thither to convent and there to punish offenders but had no certain place limited now they have power to purchase a Hall peculiar for that purpose 2. Whereas they are by the former Act inabled to purchase only 12 l. revenue to the said Colledge now they have power by the Letters Patents to purchase to the value of 100 Marks per annum 3. Whereas the Colledge is authorised of old by suite to recover from all practisers in Physick without approbation from the Colledge 5 l. a moneth By the last Letters Patents they are authorised to punish such offenders contempt in not coming to the Colledge upon the President and Censors Warrants or in refusing to answer being come by a Fine of 40 s. and imprisonment till they have paid the same And for practising without License upon conviction they may fine the offenders in 3 l. and imprison them for seven daies and untill they have paid such fines 4. Whereas of old the Colledge might punish evil practitioners in Physick within their Limits by a Fine of 20 l. By their new Grant they may examine for Witnesses against them upon oath Chirurgeons and Apothecaries and Druggists And the Servants and Attendants upon the Sick and no others and fine them 20 s. for refusing to come or answer before them and upon conviction they may fine evill Practisers in Physick 10 l. and imprison them for 14. daies and until they pay the same Fine 5. Whereas of old the Physicians had power to search the Shops and Ware-houses of all Apothecaries Druggists Distillers and Sellers of Medicines and finding unwholsome Drugs and Medicines to burn them By their new Grant they are authorised to fine such offenders in 3 l. and to commit them untill they pay the same 6. Whereas of old the one half of all Fines to be imposed by the Colledge were granted to the said Incorporation in their new Grant all the said Fines are granted to them paying to the King his Heirs and Successors yearly 6 l. 7. In the new Grant the President and Censors are enabled to take Recognizances to the Kings Majesty of Offenders convicted of unlawful or evil practise with condition that they shall not commit like future offences and to imprison them if they refuse to be so bound 8. In the new Grant the Collegiates are freed from bearing or finding of Arms because they are subject to serve in person both in the Kings Armies and in his Fleets upon occasion 9. His Majesty promiseth his Royal Assent for enacting this Patent the next Parliament
our Realm of England by and through the unskilfulness fraud and deceit of Physicians Apothecaries Druggists and such like and are likely much more to abound unless timely and festine remedy be by us provided and applied for the curing of so publique a disease Know ye therefore that we graciously affecting so pious K. James's Grants and charitable a work and intending hereby a more full and perfect reformation of the said abuses grievances and enormities which these later times have abundantly brought forth in this our Realm out of our Princely disposition and care for the repressing thereof and of our special grace certain knowledge and meer motion at the humble Petition aswell of our trusty and well beloved Henry Atkins Doctor in physick now President of the said Colledge and one of our Physicians Theodorus de Maierne Doctor in Physick one other of our Physicians Thomas Mounford and Edward Lister Doctors in Physick Fellowes and Elects of the said Colledge as of other the Doctors of the said Colledge have given granted ratified approved allowed and confirmed and by these presents do for us our Heirs and Successors give grant ratifie approve allow and confirm unto the aforesaid President and Colledge or Comminalty and their A Confirmâ—tion of all former Patents and Acts of Parliament Successors the said Letters patents of our said noble predecessor King Henry the Eight herein before mentioned and every article clause gift and grant therein contained and not herein altered for the honour peace and quiet of the said Colledge and that the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors shall and may for ever hereafter have receive take retain keep use exercise and enjoy all and singular such rights titles liberties priviledges immunities freedoms executions ability power authority and other things as by the said Letters patents or by any Acts of Parliament are or were given granted or confirmed or were thereby mentioned or intended to be given granted or confirmed notwithstanding the not using misusing or abusing of the same and that the same Letters Patents and every article and clause therein contained shall be adjudged taken and construed most benignly and favourably to and for the best benefit avail and advantage of the foresaid President and Colledge or Comminalty or their Successors any Ordinance Custome or usage to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding And whereas our said noble Predecessor by the aforesaid Letters patents amongst other things therein contained hath given and granted unto the foresaid President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors and thereby expresly appointed and provided that no person whatsoever should exercise Against not adâ—â—â—â—ed the said Faculty of Physick within the aforesaid City of London or within seven miles in circuit thereof unles the said person should first be admitted to do the same by the foresaid President and Colledge or Comminalty or their Successors by Letters testimonial of the said President and Colledge or Comminalty sealed with their common Seal upon pain of forseiting sive pounds for every moneth wherein the said persons should exercise the said faculty being not admitted thereunto the one half thereof to be forâ—â—ited and given to our said Predecessor his heirs and successors and the other half thereof to be forfeited and given to the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors as by the said Letters patents may appear Now know ye That we in our Princely wisdome Power to sue for the Peâ—â—lues dâ—epâ—y considering how needâ—ul it is and will be that all and singular person and persons practising or exercising the said faculty of physick contrary to the intent and true meaning of the foresaid Letters patents shall be duly and condignly punished and for the better encouragement of the foresaid President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors to sue for the said penalty of five pounds specified and mentioned by the said Letters patents of our especial grace certain knowledge and meer motion Have given and granted and by these presents for us our heirs and successors do give and grant unto the said President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors full power and lawful authority in the name of us our heirs and successors or otherwise in their own name by the name of the President and Colledge of the Faculty of Physick within the city of London in any our Courts of record or in any other place or places within this our Realm according to our Lawes to sue for recover and have execution of and for all and singular such penalties forfeitures sum and sums of money as now are or hereafter from time to time shall accrew or grow due unto us our heirs or successors or to them by force or vertue of the foresaid Letters patents or any the said Statutes or any clause or thing in them or in these presents contained other then the Recognizance hereafter expressed or by reason or means of any offence or misdemeanor whatsoever committed perpetrated or done or hereafter to be committed perpetrated or done contrary to the intent and meaning thereof and after the same shall be duly recovered levied or received as aforesaid We will and by these presents Penalties to the Colledgâ— use only for us our heirs and successors do give and grant the same penalties forfeitures and sums of money and every part and parcel thereof to the said President and Colledge and Comminalty and their Successors to be retained had taken converted and enjoyed to their sole and proper use benefit and behoof without rendring making or yielding unto us our heirs or successors any part or parcel thereof or any rent accompt or recompence for the same other then the yearly rent hereafter by these presents reserved the said Letters patents or any the said Statutes before mentioned or any clause article or reservation in them or any of them contained to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And we do further by these presents of our especial grace certain knowledge and meer motion for us our heirs and successors give and grant unto the foresaid President and Colledge or Comminalty and their Successors that the four persons to be annually chosen by the said To the Censors power to survey â—ll Meâ—lieâ—nes President and Colledge or Comminalty for the time being and their Successors according to the intent and meaning of the foresaid Letters patents of our said Predecessor King Henry the Eight now commonly called the four Censors of the said Colledge or any three of them for the time being shall have full power and lawful authority at all time and times hereafter when and as often as to the said four Censors or any three of them shall seem requisite and convenient to examine survey goverâ— correct and punish all and singular Physicians and Practisers in the faculâ—y of Physick Apothecaries Druggists Distiâ—â—ers and Sellers of Waâ—eâ—s or Oyls Preparers of Chymical Medicines to be â—old or imployed