“Concessimus etiam eis & successoribus suis pro nobis & hæredibus nostris, quod ipsi et successores sui possint perquirere sibi & successoribus suis, tam in dicta urbe quam extra, terras et tenementa quæcunque annuum valorem duodecim librarum non excedent’, Statuto de Alienatione ad manum mortuum non obstante. Et quod ipsi per nomina præsidentis & collegii seu communitatis facultatis medicinæ Lond’ placitari & implaciteri possint coram quibuscunque judicibus in curiis et actionibus quibuscunque. Et quod præd’ præsidens et collegium sive communitas, et corum successores, congregationes licitas & honestas de seipsis, ac stat’ & ordinationes pro salubri qubernatione, supervisu et correctione collegii seu communitatis præd’ & omnium hominum eandem facultatem in dicta civitate, seu per septem milliaria in circuitu ejusdem civitatis exercend’ secundum necessitatis exigentiam, quoties et quanda opus fuerit, facere valeant licite et impune, sine impedimento nostri, hæredum, vel successorum nostrorum, justitiariorum, escaetorum, vicecomitum, & alior’ balivor’ vel ministror’ nostror’ hœred’ vel successor’ nostror’ quorumcunque. Concessimus etiam eisdem præsidenti & collegio, seu communitati, et successoribus suis, quod nemo in dicta civitate aut per septem miliaria in circuitu ejusdem, exerceat dictam facultatem nisi ad hoc per dict’ præsidentem & communitatem, seu successores eorum, qui pro tempore fuerint, admissus sit per ejusdem præsidentis & collegii literas sigillo suo communi sigillatas, sub pœna centum solidorum pro quolibet mense, quo non admissus eandem facultatem exercuit, dimidium inde nobis & hœred’ nostris, & dimidium dicto præsidenti & coll applicandum.”
“Præterea volumus & concedimus pro nobis et successoribus nostris (quantum in nobis) est quod per præsidentem & collegium præd’ communitatis pro tempore existen’ & eorum successores in perpetum, quatuor singulis annis eligantur, qui habeant supervisum & scrutinium, correctionem & qubernat’ omnium & singulor’ dictæ civitatis medicorum utentium facultate medicinæ in eadem civitate, ac aliorum medicorum forinsecorum quorumcunque facultatem illam medicinæ aliquo modo frequentantium & utentium infra eandem civitatem & suburbia ejusdem, sive intra septem miliaria in circuitu ejurd’ civitatis, ac punitionem eorund’ pro delictis suis in non bene exequendo faciendo, & utendo illa; nec non supervisum & scrutinium omnimodarum medicinarum & earum reception’ per dictos medicos, seu aliquem eorum, hujusmodi ligeis nostris pro eorum infirmitatibus curandis & sanandis, dandis, imponendis, & utendis, quoties et quando opus fuerit pro commodo & utilitate eorundem ligeorum nostrorum; ita quod punitio hujusmodi medicorum utentium dicta facultate medicinæ, sic in præmissis delinquent’ per fines, amerciamenta, & imprisonamenta corpor’ suor’ & per alias vias rationab’ & congruas exequatur.
“Volumus etiam & concedimus pro nobis, hæredibus et successoribus nostris (quantum in nobis est,) quod nec præsidens, nec aliquis de collegio præd’ medicorum, nec successores sui, nec eorum aliquis exercens facultatem illam; quoquo modo in futur’ infra civitatem nostram præd’ et suburbia ejusdem, seu alibi, summoneantur aut ponantur neque eorum aliquis summoneatur aut ponatur in aliquibus assisis, juratis, inquestis, inquisitionibus, attinctis, & aliis recognitionibus infra dictam civitatam & suburbia ejusdem, imposterum coram majore ac vicecom’ seu coronatoribus dictæ civitatis nostræ pro tempore existend’ capiendis aut per aliquem officiarium seu ministrum suum, vel officiarios sive ministros suos summonned’, licet eædem juratæ, inquisitiones, seu recognitiones summon’ fuerint super brevi vel brevibus nostris, vel hœredum nostroum, de recto; sed quod dicti magistrati, sive qubernatores, ac communitas facultatis antidictæ & successores sui, & eorum quilibet dictam facultatem exercentes versus nos, hæredes, et successores nostros, ac versus majorem et vicecomites civitatis nostræ præd’ pro tempore existen’ & quoscunque officiarios et ministros suos sint inde quieti, & penitus exonorati in perpetuum per præsentes.”
“Proviso quod litteræ nostræ, seu aliquid in eis content’ non cedent in præjudicium civitatis nostræ Lond’ seu libert’ ejusd’ & hoc absque fine seu feodo pro præmissis, seu sigillat’ præsentium nobis facienda, solvenda, vel aliqualiter reddenda, aliquo statuto, ordinatione, vel actu in contrarium ante hoc tempora facto, edito, ordinato, seu proviso in aliquo non obstante. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium xxiij. die Sept’ an’ reg’ nostri x.”
Per ipsum Regem
“Et de data præd’ authoritate Parl. Tunstall.
‘And forasmuch that the making of the said Corporation is meritorious, and very good for the Common Wealth of this your Realm, it is therefore expedient and necessary to provide, That no Person of the said Politick Body and Commonalty aforesaid, be suffered to exercise and practice Physick, but only those Persons that be profound, sad, and discreet, groundly learned, and deeply studied in Physick.
‘In consideration whereof, and for the further authorising of the same Letters Patents, and also enlarging of further Articles for the said Common Wealth to be had and made:’ Pleaseth it your Highness, with the assent of your Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, to enact, ordain, and establish, That the said Corporation of the said Commonalty and Fellowship of the Faculty of Physick aforesaid, and all and every Grant, Article, and other Thing, contained and specified in the said Letters Patents, be approved, granted, ratified, and confirmed in the present Parliament, and clearly authorized and admitted by the same, good, lawful, and available to your said Body Corporate, and their Successors for ever, in as ample and large manner as may be taken, thought, and construed by the same; and that it please your Highness, with the assent of your said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this your present Parliament assembled, further to enact, ordain, and establish, That the Six Persons beforesaid in your said most gracious Letters Patents named as Principals, and first named of the said Commonalty and Fellowship, choosing to them Two more of the said Commonalty, from henceforward to be called and cleaped Elects; and that the same Elects yearly choose One of them to be President of the said Commonalty, and as oft as any of the Rooms and Places of the same Elects shall fortune to be void, by Death or otherwise, then the Survivors of the said Elects (within Thirty or Forty Days next after the Death of them or any of them) shall choose, name and admit One or mo, as need shall require, of the most cunning and expert Men, of and in the said Faculty in London, to supply the said Room and Number of Eight Persons; so that he or they that shall be so chosen, be first by the said Survivors strictly examined after a Form devised by the said Elects, and also by the same Survivors approved.
And where that in Dioceses in England, out of London, it is not light to find alway Men able sufficiently to examine (after the Statute) such as shall be admitted to exercise Physick in them, that it may be enacted in this present Parliament, That no Person from henceforth be suffered to exercise or practice in Physick through England, until such time as he be examined at London, by the said President, and three of the said Elects; and to have from the said President or Elects, Letters Testimonials of their approving and Examination, except he be a Graduate of Oxford or Cambridge, which hath accomplished all things for his Form, without any Grace.