gubernatores collegii præd' pro tempore existen' deliberaretur, and there then by their warrant in writing, under their common seal, did commit the plaintiff to the prison of the Compter of London, &c. absque ballio sive manucapt' ad custagia & onera ipsius T. Bonham, donec præd' T. Bonham per præcept' præsiden' & censor' collegii præd' sive successor' suor' liberatus esset; and Dr. Atkins then president, and the censors, and Bowden and Taylor as their servants and by the commandment of the said president and censors, did carry the plaintiff with the warrant, to the gaol, &c. which is the same imprisonment. The plaintiff replied and said, that by the said act of 14 H. 8. it was further enacted, "And where that in the dioceses of England, out of London, it is not like to find alway men able sufficiently to examine (after the statute) such as shall be admitted to exercise physic in them, that it may be enacted in this present Parliament, that no person from henceforth be suffered to exercise or practise physic through England, until such time that he be examined at London by the said president and three of the said elects, and to have from them letters testimonial of their approving and examination, except he be a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge, which have accomplished all things for his form without any grace;" and that the plaintiff, anno Dom. 1595, was a graduate, sc. a doctor in the university of Cambridge, and had accomplished all things concerning his degree for his form without[1] grace, by force whereof he had exercised and practised physic within the city of London until the defendants had imprisoned him, &c. upon which the defendant demurred in law. And this case was often argued by the Serjeants at bar in divers several terms; and now this term the case was argued by the Justices, and the effect of their arguments who argued against the plaintiff (which was divided into three parts) shall be first reported. The first was, whether a doctor of physic of the one university or the other, be by
- ↑ 2 Brownl. 201, 202.
