Chapter XII: Part I: Statutes and Charters (4)

Et ulterius ut nos subditor’ nostror’ saluti ac bono publico quantum in nobis est consulamus ac ut pericula & incommoda illa assidue accidentia per imperitos & inexpertos dolosos & improbos homines artem Pharmacopol’ predict’ exercen’ melius devitentur volumus & de gratia nostra speciali certa scientia & mero motu nostris per presentes pro nobis heredibus & successor’ suis quod non liceat aut licebit deinceps imposterum alicui persone vel aliquibus personis quibuscunque jam existen’ aut imposterum futuris liberis hominibus myster’ Grocer’ predict’ aut aliquar’ aliar’ artium facultat’ sive myster’ in civitate London ac in eisdem arte facultate sive myster’ educat’ vel educand’ officinam vel shoppam Pharmacopol’ instruere tenere vel habere aut medicamenta quecunque facere miscere condere componere preparare propinare applicare aut administrare aut ulla medicamenta composita aut compositiones medicinales viz aquas distillatas compositas, vel olea chymica, apozemeta, syrapos conservas eclegma, electuaria, condita medicinabilia, pilulas, pulveres, trochiscos, olea, unguenta, emplastra ullo modo divendere propalare edere exercere aut venditioni aliqui personæ vel aliquibus personis quibuscunque exponere aliter quocunque modo arte facultate sive myster’ Pharmacopol’ aut aliqua ejus parte uti aut exercere infra septem miliaria ejusdem Civitat’ sub pena quinque librarum pro quolibet mense quo hujusmodi persona sive persone artem & myster’ Pharmacopol’ (ut prefertur) exerceat aut exerceant contra veram intentionem harum Litter’ Paten’. Que quidem forisfactur’ & penalit’ per districtionem vel per actionem debiti in nomine Custodis Junioris pro tempore existen’ prosequi aut aliter in aliquibus Curiis nostris apud Westm’ de tempore in tempus leventur & recuperentur dimidium inde ad usum predict’ Magistri Custod’ & Societatis myster’ Pharmacopol’ capiend’ & applicand’.

Volumus eciam ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus & successoribus nostris concedimus prefat’ Magistro Custod’ & Societati myster’ Pharmacopol’ Civitat’ London predict’ & successor’ suis quod nulla persona sive persone quecunque officinam aut shopam Pharmacopol’ habeat teneat aut instruat habeant instruant aut artem sive myster’ Pharmacopol’ exerceat aut exerceant aut quecunque medicamenta faciat misceat condat componat preparet propinet applicat administret ant ulla medicamenta composita aut compositiones ullo modo divendere propalare edere exercere aut venundare alicui persone vel aliquibus personis quibuscunque infra Civitatem London & libertat’ ejusdem aut infra septem miliaria ejusdem Civitat’ nisi hujusmodi persona & persone per spatium septem annorum ad minus ut Apprenticius vel Apprenticii cum aliquo vel aliquibus Pharmacopol’ eandem artem exercen’ & libero homine ejusdem mysterii existen’ educat’ instruat’ & edoct’ fuit vel fuerint. Et postquam hujusmodi septem anni servicii sive Tyrocinii (ut prefertur) fuerint elapsi & extract’ Quod tunc unusquisque talis Apprenticius coram Magistro & Custod’ pro tempore existen’ appareat & presentetur. Ac per eosdem Magistrum & Custod’ (advocat’ sibi Presdent’ Collegii seu Communitat’ facultat’ medicine London pro tempore existen’ aut aliquo medico aut aliquibus medicis per dictum Presidentem nominand’ & ad hoc de tempore in tempus assignand’ si super monitionem inde fact’ tal pred’ medicus vel tal’ predicti Medici adesse voluerint vel voluerit & advisament’ cum eodem vel eisdem habit’) circa cognitionem & electionem Simplicium & circa medicament’ preparationem dispensationem tractationem commixtionem & compositionem examenetur probetur tentetur ac per eosdem Medicos Magistrum & Custodes spectatus & approbatus fuerit priusquam officinam Pharmacopol’ habere tenere instruere aut medicamenta quecunque preparare facere permiscere condere componere propinare administrare propalare edere exercere divendere aut venditioni exponere aut aliter quocunque modo artem Pharmacopoli aut aliquem ejusdem partem exercere infra Civitatem London & libertat’ ejusdem aut infra septem miliaria ejusdem Civitat’ presumat.

Ac ulterius de uberiori gratia nostra speciali & ex certa sciencia & mero motu nostris pro meliori regimine & gubernatione omnium & singular’ personarum que modo exercent aut imposterum exercebunt artem sive myster’ Pharmacopol’ Civitat’ London seu suburbia ejusdem vel infra septem miliaria ejusdem Civitatis dedimus & concessimus ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus & successoribus nostris damus & concessimus prefat’ Magistro Custod’ & Societati myster’ Pharmacopol’ Civitat’ London predict’ & successor’ suis Quod Magist’ & Custod’ myster’ predict’ pro tempore existen’ & successores sui de cetero imperpetuum plenam potestatem & authoritatem habeant & habebunt de tempore in tempus capere & habere supervis’ scrutinium examinationem gubernationem & correctionem omnium & omnimod’ tam liberorum hominum quam alior’ quorumcunque uten’ sive exercen’ artem myster’ sive facultat’ Pharmacopol’ aut aliquam (ut prefertur) ejusdem partem infra dictam Civitat’ nostram London libertat’ & suburbia ejusdem Civitat’ tam infra libertates quam extra ubi aliqua persona uten’ sive exercen’ artem mysterium sive facultatem Pharmacopœie aut aliquam ejusdem partem inhabitabit aut commorabit seu inhabitare & commorare contigerit Quodque iidem Magist’ & Custod’ & eorum successores aut eorum aliqui vel aliquis aut aliqui Assisten’ per Magistrum & Custod’ nominand’ & assignand’ temporibus congruis & convenien’ ac modo & forma convenien’ & legitim’ de tempore in tempus quoties iisdem Magistro & Custodibus videbitur expedire ingredi & intrare possint & valeant in aliquam vel aliquis officinam vel officinas shopam vel shopas domum vel domos aliquar’ personar’ sive alicujus persone cujuscunque uten’ sive exercen’ artem sive myster’ Pharmacopol’ aut aliquam ejusdem partem infra Civitat’ London Suburbia & ejusdem libertat’ predict’ aut infra septem miliaria ejusdem Civitat’ tam infra libertat’ quam extra ubi aliqua medicamenta simplicia vel composita merces drogma recept’ aque distillat’ olea chymica syrupi conserve eclegmata electuar’ pilule pulveres trochisci olea unguenta emplastra aut aliqua alia quecunque que ad artem sive mysterium Pharmacopol’ (ut prefertur) pertinent sive spectant probabiliter sive verisimiliter inveniri poterint Et ad supervidend’ scrutinand’ & proband’ si eadem medicamenta simplicia vel composita merces drogma recept’ aque distillat’ olea chymica syrupi conserve eclegmata electuaria pilule pulveres trochisci olea unguenta emplastra aut aliqua alia quecunque ad artem sive mysterium Pharmacopol’ predict’ pertinent’ sint aut erunt bona salubria medicinabilia apta & idonea ad Curam salutem & relevamen subditor’ nostror’ Ac eciam quod prefat’ Magister & Custod’ myster’ predict’ & Assisten’ predict’ pro tempore existen’ ad hoc per Magistrum & Custod’ nominand’ & assignand’ & successores sui de tempore in tempus plenam potestatem & authoritatem habeant & virtute presentium habebunt ad examinand’ & proband’ omnes & singulas personas profiten’ uten’ sive exercen’ aut qui imposterum profitebuntur utentur aut exercebunt artem sive myster’ Pharmacopol’ aut aliquam ejusdem partem infra predict’ Civitat’ London suburbia aut libertates ejusdem aut infra septem miliaria ejusdem Civitat’ tam infra libertates quam extra de & concernen’ eorum cujuslibet cognitione & scientia in predit’ arte sive myster’ Pharmacopol’ Et ad omnes illos quos imposter’ aut imperit’ inscient’ & insufficientes vel ad examinand’ vigore presentium obstinatos & repugnant’ in arte & myster’ predicto invenient ab exercitio usu & pract’ myster’ sive artis predict’ amovend’ & prohibend’ Nec non ad omnia & singula medicamenta merces drogma recept’ aquas distillat’ olea chymica syrupos conservas eclegmata electuaria pilulas pulveres trochiscos olea unguenta & emplastra ceteraque omnia & singula ad artem predict’ pertinentia que falsa illegitima adulterat’ inveterat’ exoleta insalubria corrupta immedicinabilia perniciosa aut nociva inveniunt ante delinquentium fores comburend’ mulctamque eciam ac al’ penas & penalitat’ per fines & amerciamenta in tales delinquentes statuant exponant & exequantur secundum eorum sanas discretiones & ordinationes per ipsos & successores suos sic (ut prefertur) fiend’ & constituend.’

Volentes ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus & successor’ nostris firmiter injungend’ precipientes & mandentes omnibus & singulis Majoribus Justiciar’ Ballivis Constabular’ & omnibus aliis officiar’ ministris & subditis nostris quibuscunque quod sint assistentes auxiliantes & confortantes prefat’ Magistro Custod’ & Assistan’ myster’ & societates Pharmacopol’ predict’ & eorum cuilibet & successor’ suis ad faciend’ gaudend’ habend’ & exequend’ ea omnia & singula per nos prefat’ Magistro Custod’ & Societati & Successor’ suis per has literas nostras Paten’ concess’ & quamlibet sive aliquam inde partem & parcell’.

Et ulterius volumus ac per presentes de ampliori gratia nostra speciali certa scientia & mero motu nostris pro nobis hered’ & successor’ nostris concedimus prefat’ Magistro Custod’ & Societati myster’ Pharmacopol’ Civitat’ London predict’ & successor’ suis Quod ipsi prefati Magist’ Custodes & Societas myster’ Pharmacopol’ predict’ habeant teneant retineant & gaudeant ac habere retinere & gaudere valeant & possint tot tanta talia eadem hujusmodi & consimil’ Franches’ privilegia consuetudines immunitates acquietan’ profima commoditates increment’ advantag’ & emolumenta quecunque in aromatibus Pharmacis Drogmis & aliis rebus & materiis quibuscunque ad artem sive myster’ Pharmacopol’ spectan’ & pertinen’ emend’ mercand’ seu comparan’ quot’ quant’ qual’ & que ac in tam amplis modo & forma prout antehac unquam habuerunt tenuerunt & gavisi fuerunt aut habere gaudere & tenere aliquo modo debuerunt quando cum predict’ liberis hominibus myster’ Grocer’ remanser’ ac unum Corpus corporatum & Politicum promiscue & indivisim cum eisdem fecerunt & fuerunt.

Et ulterius volumus ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus & successor’ nostris concedimus & licentiam specialem liberamque & licitam facultat’ potestatem & authoritatem damus prefat’ Magistro Custod’ & Societati mysterii sive artis Pharmacopol’ predict’ & successor’ suis habend’ recipiend’ & perquirand’ sibi & successor’ suis imperpetuum’ maner’ messuag’ terr’ tenementa prata pascua pastur’ boscos subboscos Rectorias Decim’ reddit’ reversiones & alia hereditamenta quecunque infra regnum nostrum Anglie seu alibi infra dominia nostra tam de nobis heredibus & successor’ nostris quam de aliqua alia persona sive aliquibus aliis personis quicunque (que de nobis hered’ & successor’ nostris non tenentur immediate in Capite vel per servicium militare) dummodo eadem maner’ messuag’ terr’ tenementa prat’ pasc’ pastur’ bosc’ subbosc’ Rector’ decim’ reddit’ reversion’ servic’ & hereditamenta sic per ipsos habend’ recipiend’ & perquirend’ non excedant in toto clarum annuum valorem quadragint’ librarum per ann’ ultra omnia onera & repris’ Statut’ de terr’ & tenementis ad manum mortuam non ponend’ aut aliquo Statuto Actu Ordinatione vel Provisione antehac fact’ ordinat’ sive provis’ aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in contrarium inde in aliquo modo non obstan’.

Damus eciam & per presentes pro nobis hered’ & successor’ nostris concedimus cuicunque subdito nostro sive aliquibus subditis nostris hered’ & successor’ nostrorum licentiam specialem liberamque & licitam potestatem facultatem & authoritat’ Quod ipsi sive eorum aliquis sive aliqui maner’ messuag’ terr’ tenementa prat’ pasc’ pastur’ bosc’ subbosc’ Rect’ decim’ reddit’ reversiones servicia & alia hereditamenta quecunque que non tenentur de nobis hered’ & successor’ nostris immediate in Capite vel aliter per servic’ militare prefatis Magistro Custod’ & Societati mysterii predict’ & successor’ suis dare concedere vendere legare vel alienare possint & valeant. Ita quod omnia predict’ Maner’ Messuag’ terr’ tenementa prat’ pasc’ pastur’ bosc’ subbosc’ Rector’ decim’ reddit’ reversiones servicia & alia hereditamenta sic eisdem Magistro Custod’ & Societati myster’ & artis predict’ & successor’ suis virtute presentium dand’ concedend’ legand’ vel alienaud’ non excedant in toto clarum annuum valorem quadragint’ librarum per ann’ ultra omnia onera & repris’ Statut’ de terr’ & tenement’ ad manum mortuam non ponend’ aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque antehac habit’ fact’ edit’ ordinat’ sive provis’ in contrarium inde in aliquo non obstant’.

Volumus eciam & per presentes pro nobis hered’ & successor’ nostris concedimus prefatis Magistro Custod’ & Societati myster’ sive artis Pharmacopol’ Civitat’ London’ predict’ & successor’ suis Quod prefat’ Magist’ Custod’ & Assisten’ pro tempore existen’ vel eorum successor’ vel major pars eorundem de cetero imperpetuum nominare & eligere possint unum probum & idoneum virum qui erit & nominabitur Communis Clericus Societatis predict’ Quodque talis Clericus antequam ad officium illud exequend’ admittatur Sacramentum Corporale coram Magistro & Custod’ Societatis predicte pro tempore existen’ ad officium illud predictum secundum ejus scienciam in omnibus illud tangen’ recte & fideliter exequend’ prestabit. Et quod post hujusmodi Sacramentum sic prestitum officium illud exerceat & utatur durante beneplacito Magistri Custod’ & Assisten’ societatis predict’ pro tempore existen’ aut majoris partis eorundem quorum Magist’ artis & myster’ predict’ pro tempore existen’ unum esse volumus.

Ac ulterius volumus ac per presentes pro nobis hered’ & successor’ nostris concedimus prefatis Magistro Custod’ & Societati myster’ Pharmacopol’ predict’ & successor’ suis quod prefat’ Magist’ Custodes & Assistentes pro tempore existen’ & eorum successores vel major pars eorundem de tempore in tempus de cetero nominare & eligere possint & valeant unum aptem & idoneum hominem qui erit & nominabitur Bedell’ societatis predict’. Quodque talis Bedell’ sic (ut prefertur) electus & nominat’ antequam ad officium illud exequend’ admittatur Sacramentum Corporale coram Magistro & Custod’ Societatis predict’ pro tempore existen’ ad officium illud predictum in omnibus illud tangen’ recte & fideliter exequend’ prestabit. Et quod post hujusmodi Sacramentum sic prestitum officium illud exerceat & teneat duran’ beneplacito Magistri Custod’ & Assisten’ predict’ & Successor’ suor’ pro tempore existen’ (quorum Magistrum artis & myster’ predict’ pro tempore existen’ unum esse volumus.)

Et denique volumus ac regiam nostram intentionem esse per presentes declaramus quod he Litere nostre paten’ seu aliquod in eis non cedent in prejudicium Presidentis & Collegii sive Communitatis Medicor’ Civitat’ London nec ad eorum Presidentis & Collegii sive Communitatis & Successor’ suor’ Jurisdictionem authoritatem supervis’ aut correctionem in Pharmac’ Civitat’ London tollend’ infringend’ aut dirimend’. Sed quod iidem Presidens & Communitas Medicor’ omnesque & singuli medici de eodem Collegio sive Communitate & Successores sui sicut & Medici Regis Regine & Principum imposserum debeant & pro arbitrio suo possint artem medicam in omnibus suis partibus exercere & insuper gaudebunt utentur & fruentur & gaudere uti & frui valeant & possint eisdem & consimil’ Jurisdictionibus authoritat’ supervis’ & Correctionibus ac omnibus aliis potestatibus privileg’ & libertat’ qualibus unquam antehac Pharmacopol’ usi & gavisi fuerunt & preterea generaliter omnibus aliis authoritatibus privilegiis & potestatabus ipsis quandocunque vel quacunque de causa antehac concess’ ratione vel pretextu aliquar’ Literar’ Paten’ per nos seu per aliquos vel aliquem progenitor’ nostror’ aut ratione vel pretextu alicujus Actus Parliament’ vel aliquor’ Actuum Parliamentor’ aut aliquo alio regali modo quocunque eisdem President’ & Collegio sive Communitat’ Medicor’ & Successor’ suis dat’ concess’ seu confirmat’ Volumus nihilominus & ordinamus per presentes quod in quocunque casu Presidens & Colleg’ habebunt gaudebunt & exercebunt consimilem potestatem & authoritatem advocandi sibi Magistrum & Custodes Pharmacopol’ predict’ Absque eo quod omnino licebit imposterum eisdem Medicis aliquos myster’ Grocer’ predict’ advocare ad hujusmodi scrutinium Aliquo in hujusmodi Statut’ in contrarium in aliquo non obstant’. Proviso eciam quod he Litere nostre Patentes seu aliquod in eisdem concess’ aut content’ non cedent in prejudicium Civitat’ nostre London seu libertat’ ejusdem neque ullo modo derogabunt libertat’ Franches’ Regimin’ Jurisdiction’ aut consuetud’ ejusdem Civitatis.

Et denique volumus & intentionem nostram esse declaramus quod Chirurgi experti & approbati eorum artem facultatem exercere possint omnesque & singuli eorum practica sibi propria uti & frui valeant quantum ad compositionem & applicationem medicamentor’ externor’ solumodo pertinet & spectat. Ita tamen ut ea medicamenta minime vendant aut venditioni aliis exponant secundum morem vulgarem Pharmacopol’ Civitat’ nostre London Eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut de certitudine premissor’ sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu per aliquem Progenitor’ vel Antecessor’ nostror’ prefat’ Magistro Custod’ & Societati myster’ Pharmacopol’ Civitat’ London predict’ ante hec tempore fact’ in presentibus minime fact’ exist’ seu aliquo Statuto Actu Ordinatione Provisione Proclamatione sive Restrictione in contrarium inde antehac habit’ fact’ edit’ ordinat’ seu provis’ aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstant’. In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri facimus Patentes. Teste meipso apud Westm’ Tricessimo die Maii Anno Regni Nostri Anglie Franc’ & Hibernie tertio decimo & Scocie quadragesimo octavo.

Per breve de privato sigillo.

CARTRIGHT.

NOTE. The e for æ in quæ &^c and the c for t in etiam &^c are so printed
in our original.

Royal Letter to the College of Physicians.

CHARLES R

Trusty & welbeloved wee greet you well

Whereas we have been informed That there are several pretended Physicians & Doctors graduated in the Universitys beyond the Seas who by indirect means endeavour to be received into that our Royal Colledge as Honorary Fellows, without incorporation into either of our Universities or previous Examination & approbation, according as it is expressly required by y^e Statutes to y^e great prejudice of y^e ffellows of or said Colledge & their Successors & of the Priveledges & immunityes granted to them by or Royal predicessors & orself. Wee having taken the same into or Royal Consideration have thought fit _to signifye or pleasure_ to you, & doe accordingly _direct you_ not to admit any person whatever as a Fellowe of the Society & to enjoy y^e priviledges of or s^d Colledge that hath not had his Education in either of or Universityes of Oxford or Cambridge kept his Act for D^r in Physick & don his Exercises accordingly, or that is not encorporated & licenced there haveing first taken the Oathes of Allegiance & Supremacy, & haveing been by you afterward examined & approved of according to the Statutes. And to the Intent this or pleasure may be the better observed wee doe likewise _hereby require you_ to cause these or Letters to be entered upon the Registe of or said Colledge & so wee bid you ffarewell, Given at or Court at Whitehall Febr. 12^{th} 1674 in the 26^{th} year of or Reighn.

T. WILLIAMSON.

To our trusty and well beloved the Lord Mayor of our City of _London_ for the time being and to the Deputy Lieutenants and Commissioners of the Militia of London and Westminster that now are and hereafter shall be, and to all other Officers and Ministers whom it may concern.

CHARLES R

Whereas in conformity to several Grants and Charters made by our Royal Progenitors Kings of _England_ unto the College of Physicians in our City of _London_, We have been pleased of our especial Grace and favour to confirm all their ancient Privileges and humanities (with the addition of some further Powers and Clauses for the regulation of that faculty) by our Letters Patent bearing date the 26th of March in the 15th year of our Reign; Wherein amongst other things it is expresly provided and by us granted that every Physician who is or shall be a Member of the said College be free and exempt and discharged of and from all Watch and Ward, and of and from bearing and providing Arms within our Cities of _London_ and _Westminster_ or of either of them or within 7 miles compass thereof: We have thought fit hereby to acquaint you therewith and with our pleasure thereupon; Willing and Requiring you in your several Places and Stations to give effectual orders from time to time that the said exemption from Watch and Ward and from bearing and providing Arms be now and hereafter punctually observed in favour of the Members of the said College within the limits aforesaid; And that you suffer them not to be any wise molested on that behalf And for so doing this shall be your Warrant. Given at our Court at _Whitehall_ the 28th day of June 1665 in the seventeenth year of our Reign.

By his Majestie’s Command
WILLIAM MORICE.

College Questions resolved by the Lord Chancellor and Judges in the
fifth of King _James_ his Reign An. Dom. 1607

The Kings most Excellent Majesty having directed his Letters to the Right honourable Thomas Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor of England, and to Sir John Popham Knight, Lord Chief Justice of England and one of his Highnesses most honourable Privy Council, They the said Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice by virtue of the same Letters called unto them Sir Thomas Fleminge Knight, then Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty’s Court of Exchequer, Sir Thomas Walmesley & Sir Peter Warburton, Knights, two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, and Sir David Williams and Sir Laurence Tanfield Knights two of his Majesties Justices of the King’s Bench, and after due consideration had both of the Charter of King Henry the eighth made unto the said President and College of Physicians in the tenth year of his Reign, and several Acts of Parliament thereof made, one in the fourteenth year of the same King, and the other in the first year of Queen Mary, for the ordering and governing of the said College and of all the Practisers in _London_ and seven miles compass, did on the first of May 1607 at the house of the said Lord Chancellor called _York_ House, resolve the several questions hereafter mentioned, as is expressed under every Question.

Quest. 1. Whether Graduates of Oxford and Cambridge may practise in _London_ or seven miles compass of the same without licence under the said College Seal, by virtue of the clause in the end of the Statute of 14. H. 8. and whether that clause hath not relation to the Statute of 3. H. 8. onely, or how far it doth extend?

Resp. All resolved, that no Graduate that is not admitted and licenced by the President and College of Physicians under their Common Seal, could practise in London or within 7 miles compass of the same.

Quest. 2. Whether, by Graduates, Graduates in Physick onely are to be understood?——

Resp. They resolved That the exception in the Statute of 14. H. 8. cap. 5. of Graduates in the two Universities, is to be understood onely of Graduates of Physick and of no others. And all resolved, That by that exception those Graduates may practise in all other places of _England_ out of _London_ and 7 miles of the same without examination; But not in _London_ nor within the said Circuit of 7 miles.

Quest. 3. If Graduates not admitted to practise in _London_ practise there, whether, for evil practice or misdemeanor therein, they be not subject to the Corporation and Government of the College?

Resp. They all agreed, That they are subject to the Government and correction of the College by an express Clause of the said Charter enacted which giveth to the President and College _Supervisionem Scrutinium, Correctionem & Gubernationem_ as well of all persons using the practise of Medicine within the City &c.

Quest. 4. If they may not practise without admission of the College (as their Letters Patents plainly import) Then whether such Graduates are not subject to the examination, without which there were never any admitted; and without which the admission cannot be approved; because every Graduate is not absolutely good _ipso facto_?

Resp. It was resolved by all That all that practised or should practise Physick either in _London_ or within the compass of seven miles of the same, must submit themselves to the examination of the President and College if they be required thereunto by their authority notwithstanding any licence, allowance or privilege given them in _Oxford_ or _Cambridge_ either by their degree or otherwise.

Concerning Punishment & Correction against Offenders.

Quest. 1. Whether the President and four Censors together, or the Censors alone may not commit to Prison without bail or mainprize all Offenders in the Practice of Physick according to the Statute of _primo Mariæ_ and how long, whether till he have paid such Fine as shall be assessed upon him, or have submitted himself to their Order, and in what manner?——

Resp. They all resolved, That for not well doing using or practising the faculty or Art or Physick or for disobedience or contempts done and committed against any Ordinance made by the College, by virtue and according to the power and authority to them granted, they may commit the Offenders without bail or mainprize, as the words of the Statute are. Which they all resolved, would not be altered or interpreted otherwise than the express words of the Statute are.

Quest. 2. Whether they may not commit to prison for disobedience and contempt of the private Statutes and Ordinances of the College made for the better Government thereof, and for not payment of such reasonable fines as shall be imposed by the President and Censors for maintenance of the said College, among the Members of the same College?

Resp. They all resolved, That the President and College might commit to prison for offences and disobedience done and committed against any lawfull Ordinance made by the said College, and might impose reasonable fines for the breach thereof, and detain the parties committed till these fines were satisfied.

Quest. 3. Whether they may not justly take upon every admission a reasonable sum of money for the better maintenance and defraying of necessary expences, as in other Corporations?

Resp. They all held That they might take such reasonable sums.

Quest. 4. Whether those onely are to be committed that are Offenders in _Non bene exequendo, faciendo & utendo facultate Medicinæ_, as in the Letters Patents; and such as are sufficient and not admitted, are to be sued for 5 li. a month and not be committed?

Resp. They all held That by the Charter and Acts of Parliament they might commit Offenders and Practisers that offended in _non bene exequendo faciendo et utendo facultate_: But for the committing to prison of such as practise (not being admitted by the College) they held it doubtful, for that the Charter and Statute do in that case inflict a punishment of 5 li. a month against such practiser without admittance by the College. But they all resolved, That if the President and College made an Ordinance to prohibit the practising of all without admittance under the common Seal of the said College, That for breach and contempt of this Ordinance, the President and College might both impose a reasonable fine upon the Offender and commit him without bail or mainprize.

Quest. 5. Whether refusal to come to be examined upon warning given be not a sufficient cause of Commitment?

Resp. They all resolved, That if the College do make an Ordinance, That if any Practiser of Physick in _London_ or within 7 miles of the same shall obstinately refuse to be examined by the Censors of the College _in non bene exequendo faciendo & utendo_ the Art of Physick in his Medicines or Receipts that the said President or Censors may commit him to prison, there to remain without bail or mainprize, untill he be delivered by the President and Censors and to forfeit and pay to the said College some reasonable sum of money, That the same Ordinance will be good and lawfull. And if any after shall offend contrary to the said Ordinance, the President and Censors may lawfully commit such Offender to prison, there to remain without bail or mainprize untill he shall be delivered by the said President and Censors.

It pleased the Lord Chancellor to move these Questions to the Judges as
material for the execution of the Statutes.

1 Quest. Whether the party committed for unskilful or temerarious practice may have an action of false imprisonment against them, and thereby draw in question or issue the goodness or badness of the Physick?

Resp. All resolved, That the Party so committed was concluded by the sentence and judgement of the 4 Censors of the College of Physicians.

2 Quest. Whether if any not admitted do practise Physick within London or 7 miles of the same but once twice or thrice in one month, be an Offender against the Charter and Statutes of the College?

Resp. All resolved it was, if he be a professed Physician.

These I conceive to be the resolutions of their Lordships and the
Judges upon the Questions which I humbly refer to themselves to
affirm or disaffirm

John Crook
Tho. Foster
Tho. Harries

(from Goodall’s Collection, p. 276).

CASES.

DR. BONHAM’S CASE.[111]

(_From_ 8 _Co. Rep._ 114.)

_Hil._ 7 _Jac._ 1.