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 ye Statutes to ye great prejudice of ye 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 ye priviledges of or sd Colledge that hath not had his Education in either of or Universityes of Oxford or Cambridge kept his Act for Dr 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. 12th 1674 in the 26th year of or Reighn.
T. WILLIAMSON.
