A. D. 1540. Anno tncelimo iecundo Hen rici VIII. C. 41, 299 ' many Times having in Cure, as well Come of the Lords of your moll honourable Council, and d
- Times many ol the Nobility oi this Ki aim, as manj i
' their due Attendance to them, and other their Patieni by reafon they be many Times compelled, a i well within the City i
- ...in other Towns and Villages, to keep Watch and Ward, am
' and other Offices within the laid City and Subui of the fan 1 to their great Fatigation and Unquicting, and to the Peril of th Pa . by reafon it be ' conveniently attended :' (2) It may therefore plcafe your m Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in th led, and by A fame, to enact, ordain and cftablifb, Thai the Prefident ol I id Fcllowfhi the Time being, and the Commons and Fellows ol the fame, and every Fellow then of, any Time hereafter fhall be, theii Succcflbrs, and the Succcflbrs of c 1. of thei after the making of this prefent Act, fhall be difcharged to keep am Watch '.1 Ward in your fa , or the Suburbs of the fame, or any Part thereof; (3) and that they or any of them fh 1 1 chofen Conilable, or any other Officer in the faid City or Suburbs ; (4) and that if at any Time hereafter the I. iid Prefident for the Time being, or any of the (aid Common 1 Time being, by any Ways or Means be appointed or elected to any Watch or V 1 I, 1 of Conftable, or any other Office, within the faid City or Suburbs, the fame Appointment or Election to be utterly void and of none Effl any Order, Cuflom or Law to the contrary before this Time ufed in the laid City notwithftanding. II. And that it may pleal'e your molt Royal Majefly, by the Authority aforefaid, That it may be further Fot " Phyficiini enacted, ordained and ellablifned, for the common Wealth and Surety ot" your loving Subjects of this your •Mabtauua Realm, in and for the Administration of Medicines to fuch of your faid Subjects as fhall have Need of the Apothecary" 1 fume, That from henceforth the faid Prefident for the Time being, Commons and Fellows, and their Sue- v.jrcsinLon- ceflbrs, may yearly, at fuch Time as they fhall think molt meet and convenient for the fame, elect and don. choofe four Perfons of the faid Commons and Fellows, of the befl learned, wifeft and mofl difcreet, fuch as they fhall think convenient, and have Experience in the faid Faculty of Phyfick ; (2) and that the faid Alteredbi four Perfons fo elected and chofen, after a corporal Oath to them minifrrcd by the faid Prefident or his Dc- G * 0, c ' puty, fhall and may, by Virtue of this prefent Act, have full Authority and Power, as often as they fhall think meet and convenient, to enter into the Houfc or Houfcs of all and every Apothecary, now or at any Time hereafter ufing the Myftcry or Craft of Apothecary within the faid City, only to fearch, view and fee fuch Apothecary Wares, Drugs and Stuffs, as the faid Apothecaries, or any of them have, or at any Time hereafter fhall have, in their Houfe or Houfcs ; (3) and all fuch Wares, Drugs and Stuffs, as the ' faid four Perfons fhall then find defective, corrupted, and not meet nor convenient to be miniitred in any Medicines for the Health of Man's Body, the fame four Perfons calling to them the Warden of the faid Myftery of Apothecaries within the faid City for that Time being, or one of them, fhall caufe to be brent, or otherwife deftroy the fame, as they fhall think meet by their Difcretion ; (4) and if the faid Apotheca- The Forfeiture ries, or any of them, at any Time hereafter do obflinatcly or willingly refufe or deny the faid four Perfons ofan Apothe- yearly elected and chofen, as is beforcfaid, to enter into their faid Houfe or Houfcs for the Caufes, Intent "^tl/tohive and rurpofe before rchearfed ; that then they and every of them fo offending contrary to this Act, for every n ; s Houfe Time that he or they do fo offend, to forfeit C. s. (5) the one Half to your Majeily, and the other Half fearched. to him that will fue for the fame by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of the King's « M - *■«■ c - 9- Courts, wherein no Wager of Law, Eflbin or Protection fhall be allowed ; (6) and if the faid four Perfons, The Forfeiture or any of them, fo elected and chofen as before is faid, do refufe to be (worn, or after his faid Oath to him of ,uc1 ' as bei ?£ or them adminiltred, do obftinately refufe to make the faid Search and View once in the Year, at fuch £ B Time as they fhall think moil convenient by their Difcretions, having no lawful Impediment by Sicknefs, mi tc Search. or otherwife, to the contrary ; that then for every fuch wilful and obstinate Default, every of the faid four Perfons making Default to forfeit forty Shillings. III. And forafmuch as the Science of Phyfick doth comprehend, include and contain the Knowledge of . of t[ie pI)V . Surgery, as a fpecial Member and Part of the fame ; therefore be it enacted, That any of the faid Com- ?,uan; in pany or Fellowfhip of Phyficians, being able, chofen and admitted by the faid Prefident and Fellowfhip of do«m- Phyficians, may from Time to Time, as well within the City of London, as elfewhere within this Realm, ,ilc Surgery, practife and exercife the faid Science of Phyfick in all and every his Members and Parts ; any Act, Statute g-'l" or Provifion made to the contrary notwithstanding. cmiwPbtji- ' ciar.s, &c. fee 6 I? r . 3. c. 4. and 18 G«. :. < . ; 5. CAP. XLI. Which Innholders may bake Horfe-Bread within their Houfe, notwithstanding the Statutes of 13 R. 2. REP- :r J*c, r. ftat. r. c. S. and 4 H. 4. c. 25. c> M « C A P. XLII. For Barbers and Surgeons. ' "IT* HE King our Sovereign Lord, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Com- 1 , ; ' S mons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, by all their common and Liberties of ' Affents, duly pondering, among other Things neceffary for the common Wealth of this Realm, that it is ^k^r^Lon-"" ' very expedient and needful to provide for Men expert in the Science of Phyfick and Surgery, for the Health f"'^'. ' of Man's Body, when Infirmities and Sicknefs fhall happen, for the due Exercife and MaintenancewhereofofoneCornpanr. ' good and neceffary Acts be already made and provided ; • (2) yet neverthelcfs, forafmuch as within tbcigCcc.: ' City of Lmuhn, where Men of great Experience, as well in Speculation as in Practice of the Science and (3_q 2 c Faculty
