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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45272	A corner-stone laid towards the building of a new colledge (that is to say, a new body of physicians) in London upon occasion of the vexations and oppressive proceedings acted in the name of the society called the Colledge of Physicians : for the better information of all men, as well as of physicians, chirurgians, and apothecaries, touching the unhappy estate of the art of physick, here in England, it being an apology for the better education of physicians / by Adrian Huyberts.	Huyberts, Adrian.	1675 (1675)	Wing H3858; ESTC R15506	22,542	39

A Corner-Stone Laid towards the Building of a NEW COLLEDGE that is to say a new Body of Physicians IN LONDON Upon Occasion of the vexatious and oppressive proceedings acted in the name of the Society called the COLLEDGE of PHYSICIANS For the better information of all men as well as of Physicians Chirurgians and Apothecaries touching the unhappy estate of the Art of Physick here in ENGLAND It being an APOLOGY for the better Education of PHYSICIANS By Adrian Huyberts Physician Rode Caper Vitem tamen hinc In tua quod fundi cornua possit erit LONDON Printed for the Author 1675. THis Apology of mine shall be divided into four Parts 1. The Occasion of my present Persecution 2. The Pretences upon which it is grounded in the disquisition whereof I have discovered under how great a Mystery of Iniquity this Art hath hitherto been managed to the abuse and detriment of the Nobility Gentry and all the People 3. The manner of the Colledges vexatious proceeding to ruine me 4. An Account of my self as to my education in Physick my Practice both here and beyond-Sea and my behaviour towards all English abroad especially the friends of his Majesty It is not for the sake of my own particular that I appear hear in Print For were not my Case the Concern of all other Practitioners and were not the people of England concerned in having the Gowns of my Adversaries thus strip't over their ears that they may read and know them naked as they are and not be abused any longer about matter of Medicine And had not I well understood that by their present persecution a most just occasion hath been given me to serve the Publick by being smart and plain in discourse to inform the world as well as to serve my self I would have been content to have born all in silence But Conscience of duty hath called me forth In order therefore to the better understanding of the Collegiates Quarrel at me know that at my first coming into England from my Travels a Merchant of quality being in a deplorable condition having called divers of the Doctors that are best reputed to his assistance it was all in vain For after many Trials of skill and useless applications they gave him over upon which I being called to the same Patient did by Gods blessing recover him At which some of his former Physicians being angry when they were told it could not hold it seems but said they would rather have had him died than that I being none of their Society should have cured him And for this with some other of my Performances of the same nature they have waited for an Opportunity to fall upon me I could give many more like instances of time past For I have been very willing to entertain such Patients as they had given over to the Grave But I forbear and may do it upon occasion if they put me to it That which moves them to molest me now is partly to pay old Scores of envy and partly to satisfie the humour of one of their fellow Doctors One would have thought my house being in the fields betwixt Chelsey and Kensington I should have been far enough out of the reach of malice but that Doctor living not far from Charing-Cross having now and then a Patient about Westminster and my Neighbour-Villages it was my hap to be called among some of them and by Gods Blessing to cure those whom he and several other of his fellow Doctors of the Colledge could not This it seems was Crime enough and upon this it was that he framed a complaint against me at the Colledge When St. Peter had cured the lame man the Jews could not deny he had done a good work however it was against their interest to tollerate him therefore they concluded he should not practise any more though in the name of Jesus but contrived how to lay hold on him upon some pretences So those Gentlemen though a great part of my practice be to cure the poor members of Jesus freely for his sake do use me like Jews have been busie with pretences to disturb my Practice To this purpose a Council was called and a Junior Doctor of the gang they employed to be their Pedee-Solicitor as having a busie humour and but little else to do and so he is condemned to carry the Green-bag after the other Doctor The more grave and cunning of the number seem to wash their hands of the business But these are the two wights that now wear the name of the Colledge in the prosecution at law against me and yet there is also a Tipling Committee of Juniors of the same Society that have little else to do to whom they give account what passes and from whom they receive also Counsel and Instructions what next to do to give trouble to other Physicians Secondly as to their pretences for the commencing of this malicious Suit they are divers 1. The First is their Foundational pretence viz. a Statute supposed to be made in the 14th and 15 year of King Henry the 8th Whereby a confirmation is pretended to have been made of a Patent before granted by the same King Henry wherein certain persons to the number of 6 or 7 and their Successors were constituted a Colledge of Physitians and none but themselves and such as are approved by them to be permitted to practice Physick in London City and 7 miles about Now for the slighting of this pretence give me leave with all reverence to the Law of the Land and its learned Professors to produce certain Circumstances whereby it may appear questionable whether ever any such Law as is pretended were passed in due form as a Law or Statute in England ought to be One Circumstance very material is that it doth not appear by any Record that the Royal Assent was given to it 'T is granted such a Bill was tendred in the Parliament in the 14th and 15th year of King Henry the 8th and a copy of such a Bill is to be seen in the Rolls which seems to be but a meer Copie of somewhat that was set on foot then but perished in the birth because neither at Top nor Bottom of it is to be seen Le Roy le veult the only Signature whereby any thing is known to be a Law Another Circumstance that may induce a man to believe it no Statute is because the contents or powers contained in it are such as militate against the very Spirit of an English Parliament the great Sanctuary of the publick freedom For nothing can be more difficult than to believe that a Parliament would concurr to invest any sort of men with so extravagant Powers over their fellow Subjects as are contained in that supposed Statute viz. so sit themselves as a Court of Judicature and there to convent any practisers not licensed by themselves upon informations without Oath and without a tryal per Pares themselves being the only parties to take