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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42184	The late censors deservedly censured; and their spurious litter of libels against Dr. Greenfield, and others, justly expos'd to contempt by the following answer to all, but especially the last, intituled, A reply to the reasons against the censors of the College of Physicians, &c. Humbly offer'd to the perusal of Dr. Thomas Burwell, Richard Torles, William Daws, Thomas Gill, the late censors. By Lysiponius Celer M.D.L.	Groeneveldt, Jan, 1647?-1710?.	1698 (1698)	Wing G2062B; ESTC R215837	28,014	36

Knot of Nonsence it needs not be dissected now I think on 't it merits not so great a Hand But seeing it is roundly cover'd with a limber Conscience blown up with Bombast and got amongst the Mob let it e'ne be kick'd about till it be deservedly lost The 1st of the Reasons they pretend to Answer is the following Reason First Because the said Censors did not only take upon them an Office of Trust and Judicial Authority wherein the Liberty and Property of the Subject is highly concerned without qualifying themselves but also executed the same with utmost Violence against an innocent Person as may more plainly appear in their Proceedings against Dr. John Greenfield a Member of the said College who having been accused by a vexatious Woman of ill Practice several Years before was twice acquitted by preceding Censors But these Gentlemen proud of their Authority and having no regard to the Justice and Judgment of their Predecessors and in Contempt of two consecutive Acts of Grace from the King and Parliament did notwithstanding fine the abovesaid Dr. Greenfield for that imaginary Crime without suffering the said Doctor to clear himself by Witnesses and having signed a Warrant and appointed an Officer of their own Creation did commit him to Newgate without Bail or Main-prize and there detained him till the first Day of the ensuing Term when and where the Honourable the Judges of the King's-Bench convinced them of their illegal Proceedings and discharged the said Dr. Greenfield in open Court To this they reply that it is a Malicious Charge drawn up and publish'd against the Censors of the College of Physicians who took no Authority upon themselves but what is vested in them by two Acts of Parliament c. The present Censors having qualifyed themselves and the rest since the including Act of Grace acting inoffensively the present cannot the former need not fear a Prosecution The Prosecutors Charge is solely against the late nam'd in the Reasons and Title of this Tract which Charge as it is true cannot be Malicious and not against any Censors but those that were so now only Censorious with that indeleble Character I hope But if their biennial Power be perpetuated in their Conceipt and once a Censor must e're be so let them e'ne be still the Kings of Branford let them imagine the Power of the two Acts to be vested in them appropriated to their Persons and inseparable from their Quality whilst they are deservedly out of that Place Power and Trust they have so notoriously abus'd But Morta la Bestia morto lo Veleno let them rattle with their Tails their Fang-teeth are out Yet though their Anthority be gone their Sence continues the same They boast of a great Power vested by Law but no Trust at all deny the taking of an Office upon them but own they are chosen into and accept of the Place think themselves warranted by two Acts of Parliament in the executing of a Power in Contempt of Four others I mean the Two of Grace and both the qualifying Acts. But they must be taught that the Law requires a Series of uninterrupted Justice You err not knowing the Law for whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one Point he is guilty of all c. Is it Law that gives you leave to Imprison The same commands you to qualify The same Justice that relieves the Oppressed ought to punish the Guilty and though you boast the Law cannot reach you the Legislators may Ponite inflatos tumidosque vultus quicquid à vob is Minor extimescit Major hoc idem Dominus minatur Next they alledge that the Censors are solemnly Sworn not to consent to admit any Person into the College but such whom without favour or affection they shall judge to be duly qualified both for Learning and Morals That they will approve no Person nor Medicine for Reward Favour or Entreaty but will in all things discharge the Duty faithfully as God shall help them A solemn Oath is a sacred Tye and Motive to Justice but where this is wanting that always aggravates the Crime can never justifie the Action Finding then that a gentle Rebuke in general Terms will not avail viz. that of the former Reply That their Oath was not binding to act illegally and where it doth so the Constitution is faulty a severer Lash must stop this full mouth'd Cry upon a wrong Scent Dr. Greenfields Learning and Morals were approv'd when he entred the College he was balletted for as well as any of you admitted upon as good Terms as any hath the same Diploma Priviledges and Authority to Practice This was done to your Hands by more impartial Judges and so far the recital of your Oath is insignificant But seeing 't is not this pray tell us what Oath it was that bound you to reassume the Cognizance of an Affair twice determin'd before by the same Authority to commit the Innocent when you were disabled by two Acts of Parliament to act so by a Criminal to declare that a Poison when given by Dr. Greenfield with its due Corrector which must be a harmless Medicine because given by two of you Censors without an Antidote to refuse the admitting of Witnesses which were afterwards satisfactory to a superiour Court to deny the Tryal of his Corrector upon other Animals to exact the utmost Farthing the Law allow'd you to fine and imprison too a Collegiate in an unpresidented Manner to send him to Newgate for the first Offence as in your great Wisdoms you thought when choice of Prisons of less Scandal might serve to be deaf when intreated not to do it 'T was of you Dr. Burwel he begg'd it upon your immediate return from the House of God the House of Prayer Wo be to you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites c. This last it was first caus'd my Blood to boile now sowers my Temper Irarumque omnes effundit Habenas and made me almost forget to ask you whether you did Swear too not to qualifie your selves I believe if you can give your selves leave to re-examine this Affair sedately you will find it the Result of Passion Envy Ambition and By-ends Passion in Dr. T e upon a former Peak Ambition in the Bencher-fellows to curb and oppress the more Serviceable and Active by Arbitrary Laws Envy for want of Practice and Success By-ends shall be Secret as yet 'T is so Dr. G ll though you should exert to the utmost your now single Capacity register the Contrary and silence me with your Ratio prima ultima I do not mean the thundering Mawl against a Protest at the College Board but your customary Nonononono with a Jove-like disgust and a Conclusive-shake of the Nodle in a Demiquaver Expect then the just Reward of your Pains but no Favour at all unless your Adversaries be prevail'd upon by Intreaty for they must discharge their Duty faithfully and help your selves as you can Next you multiply your Power by a