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).