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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

the Limits within mentioned and to every and either of them A short Account of the Institution and Nature of the College of Physicians London THE College of Physicians in London first Founded and Constituted by the Charter of King Henry VIII in the Tenth Year of his Reign and afterward confirmed and inlarged in its Privileges and Jurisdictions by several Acts of Parliament and Charters granted by Himself and Royal Successors consists of a President Fellows Candidates Honorary Fellows and Licentiates 1. The FELLOWS Are Doctors of Physick chosen out of the Candidates who have been always limited to a certain Number and are now confined to the Number of Fourscore by His present Majesties Gracious Charter Out of these are chosen the President Elects Censors and other Officers of the College who with the rest of the Fellows are solely concerned in the Governing Part of the College and have a Voice in the making and rescinding any Statutes Orders or by-Laws relating to Physick and the Practice thereof 2. CANDIDATES Must be Doctors in Physick admitted to that Degree in one of our Own Universities must not be Foreigners and ought to have practised Physick Four Years before they are admitted into that Order out of these as the Seminary the Fellowships are filled up as they become vacant in a perpetual Succession 3. HONORARY FELLOWS Are such Doctors in Physick as by reason of their being Foreigners or having taken their Degrees in some University beyond the Seas are not incorporated into either of Ours or for some other reason having not been Candidates are not of the Number of those who have Votes in the Affairs of the College 4. LICENTITATES Are such other Persons Skilled in Physick who by reason of their being Foreigners or their not being admitted Doctors in one of Our Universities or for their not being Eminently Learned or by reason of their too great Youth or such like Causes are not capable to be Elected into the Number of the Candidates yet may notwithstanding be serviceable to the Publick in taking Care of the Health of the King's Subjects at least in some particular Disease NOW of all these several Ranks and Degrees of Practisers in Physick none of them is confined to any certain Number but the Fellows and Candidates so that the Rest being wholly unlimited no Person can be excluded out of the College or debarred from Practice but such as are so wholly illiterate and unskilful that they dare not adventure to submit themselves to the Examination and Judgment of the President and Censors of the College either as to the Goodness of their Medicines or their own Skill in all or any Part of Physick though the President and Censors be Men strictly sworn to do justice to all Persons who shall present themselves or their Medicines to their Scrutiny and Examination From hence it manifestly follows That the College of Physicians is very far from being a Monopoly since it cannot reject any of the King's Subjects who are duly qualified for the Exercise of all or any Part of Physick and therefore all Pretenders to Secret Medicines or to the Practice of Physick without Licence first had from the College are justly prosecuted and punished as Publick Cheats and Impostors conscious to themselves of Fraud in their Medicines and Insufficiency in their pretended Skill in Physick according to the just and wholsome Laws in that Case provided For which purpose and for the Incouragement of Legal and Learned Practicers in Physick the College of Physicians is invested with several Powers and Privileges partly by the express Laws of the Land and several Royal Charters and partly by such Statutes and Orders of the College as have been made in Pursuance thereof An Account of some of which are here Printed for the more Publick Information of all the King's Subjects so that none may hereafter pretend Ignorance in these Matters 1. The Censors of the College are intrusted with the Government Scrutiny Correction and Supervision of all Persons practising Physick within the City of London and Seven Miles Compass together with all their Medicines Bills and Prescriptions whatsoever so as that they may punish Offenders by Fines Amerciaments Imprisonments and other reasonable Methods 2. No Person in the Country except Graduates in Physick in either of Our Universities can have a License to practise Physick from the Lord Bishop of the Diocess till he be first examined approved by the President and Three Elects of the College and receive their Letters Testimonial for that Purpose 3. All Persons practising Physick in the City of London and Seven Miles Compass without Licence first had of the College of Physicians after due Examination whether meer Empiricks and Unlearned Persons or any other whatsoever are to be prosecuted at Law and upon Conviction to pay Five Pounds for every Months Practice proved against them and if they happen to be Apothecaries may also according to the ancient Practice and laudable Custom of the College inforced by a former as likewise by a late Statute be discommun'd so that no Member of that Society ought upon Notice thereof to suffer any of his Bills or Prescriptions to be sent to any such Apothecary 4. Any Person practising Physick Illegally that is without Licence first had from the College of Physicians if his Patient shall happen to dye under his Hands is indictable at Common Law for the Loss of one of the King's Subjects 5. Upon Complaint made by any Person to the President and Censors against any Practiser of Physick within the City of London and Seven Miles Compass whether he be a Licensed Physician or not for having prescribed any Unfitting or Unwholsome Medicine to his Patient the said President and Censors have full Power and Authority to receive any such Complaint to summon the Person offending to appear before them at their Board to summon and examine Witnesses and to hear and determine the Matter and if the Person accused be found guilty of Ill Practice they have Power to set a Fine upone him to any Summ not exceeding Twenty Pounds and by the Warrant of the Censors to commit him to any Prison of the City except the Tower of London till he shall have paid the aforesaid Fine and made due Submission to the College so that all Persons who are injured in their Bodies and Healths by Unskilful Practisers may there have certain and speedy Redress 6. By the King 's late Gracious Charter the sole Power of Licensing all Books Papers c. relating to Physick and Chirurgery and the Practice thereof is after the Expiration of the Act of Printing granted to the President and Censors of the College of Physicians And in the mean Time is by them exercised by Favour of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury who has been pleased to give them his Deputation for that Purpose by which Means frivolous and useless Books in Physick and Chirurgery will for the future be in great measure Prevented and the