A COLLECTION OF Acts of Parliament Charters Trials at Law and Judges Opinions Concerning Those GRANTS to the Colledge of Physicians London taken from the Originals Law-Books and Annals Commanded By Sir EDWARD ALSTON Kt. President and the Elects and Censors Made by CHRISTOPHER MERRETT Fellow and Censor Anno Dom. 1660. CONTENTS ACts 3. H. 8. pag. 1. Search for the Original 122 123 ACts 14 15. H. 8. 3. ACts 32. H. 8. 14 18. ACts 34 35. H. 8. 27. ACts 1. Mariae 30. Chirurgeons and their Liberties 18. Charters 10. H. 8. pag. 3. Confirmed 9 11 19 30 34 39 40 41 61. Queen Eliz. for Anatomies 34. King James 37. to be confirmed next Parl. 62. An Abridgment of it 134. Allowed in the Exchequer 65. His Letter in prosecution of it 130. The like from his Councel 133. Tryals Colledge versus Gardiner 67 110 112. Tryals Colledge versus Dr. Bonham 75. Bugge 65 Tryals Colledge versus Barton 101. Tryals Colledge versus Jenkins and Read 113. Tryals Colledge versus Barker 122. Tryals Colledge versus Trigge 124. Tryals Colledge versus Blanke 124 133. Tryals Colledge versus Butler 133. Bonham versus Colledge 79. Butler versus Colledge 106. Concerning the Kings Physicians 129. Lord chief Justice Pophams Resolves 113. Lord Chancellour Chief Justice and Judges resolves 116. Several tryals nonsuits and directions 122 123 124 133. 1. Form of a Declaration 67. 2. an Information in the Exchequer 67. 3. a Warrant to commit to prison 101. PRIVILEGES Coll. Incorporated pag. 4 5. To choose a President 5 To have a Common Seal 6. To purchase Lands 6 60 To plead and be impleaded 6 124. To make by-Laws 6 56 To have a Hall and meetings 55. To imprison non-payers of fines 52. To have all fines 53 57 To pay 6 l. per annum for those fines 63. Not to be in Inquests juries c. 8. Freed from Watch Ward and Offices 15. Freed from Armes compare 19 22. 61 126. May practise Chirurgery 18. Elects to be chosen 10. What Physicians they may licence 11 Register his office and oath 57 58 Officers to choose and swear 58 59 Censors are to be yearly chosen their office concerning Physicians and Medicines 7 May fine and imprison for mala praxis 7 31 32 47 And for that only 97 98 Keepers to receive whom they commit to prison 31 Must be sworn 16. their forfeiture for non-swearing and searching 16 May search Apothecaries c. shops 16 32 44 50 52 Apothecaries refusing search how fined 17 33. May summon examine fine and convent Physicians and witnesses 45 51. May fine and imprison witnesses not appearing c. 46 May swear witnesses 49. May take a bond of 100 l. for no farther practise 59 May punish non admissos and how 47. Discovery of offenders and how 48 May convent Apothecaries c. 51 Admitted by the Vniversities 3 11 75 Colledge 7. Bishops 2 3. Elects 11 Penalty of non admissi 2 7 42 By the Common Law 66 In what cases any person may Practise 27. ANNO TERTIO HENRICI Octavi CAP. XI By whom every Physician and Chirurgeon shall be allowed TO the King our Soveraign Lord and to all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled For as much as the science and cunning of Physick and Chirurgery to the perfect knowledge whereof be requisite both great learning and ripe experience is daily within this Realm exercised by a great multitude of ignorant persons of whom the greater part have no manner of insight in the same nor in any other kind of learning some also can no letters on the book so Inconveniences ensuing by ignorant persons practising Physick or Chirurgery far forth that common Artificers as Smiths Weavers and women boldly and customably take upon them great cures and things of great difficulty in the which they partly use sorcery and witchcraft partly apply such medicines unto the disease as be very noyous and nothing meet therefore to the high displeasure of God great infamy to the Faculty and the grievous hurt damage and destruction of many of the Kings liege people most especially of them that cannot discern the uncunning from the cunning Be it therefore to the surety and comfort of all manner people by authority of this present Parliament Enacted That no person within the City By whom they which practise Physick or Chirurgery in London c. shall be allowed St. 14. H. 8. 5. 34. H. 8. 8. of London nor within seven miles of the same take upon him to exercise and occupy as a Physician or Chirurgeon except he be first examined approved and admitted by the Bishop of London or by the Dean of Pauls for the time being calling to him or them four Doctors of Physick and for Chirurgery other expert persons in that Faculty and for the first examination such as they shall think convenient and afterward alway four of them that have been so approved upon the pain of forfeiture for every moneth that they do occupy as Physicians or Chirurgeons not admitted not examined after the tenour of this Act of v. li. to be imployed the one half thereof to the use of our Soveraign Lord the King and the other half thereof to any person that will sue for it by action of debt in which no wager of Law nor protection shall be allowed And over this that no person out of the said A Physician or Chirurgeon allowed by the Bishop of the Diocese City and precinct of vii miles of the same except he have been as is aforesaid approved in the same take upon him to exercise and occupy as a Physician or Chirurgeon in any Diocese within this Realm but if he be first examined and approved by the Bishop of the same Diocese or he being out of the Diocese by his Vicar general either of them calling to them such expert persons in the said faculties as their discretion shall think convenient and giving their Letters testimonials under their Seals to him that they shall so approve upon like pain to them that occupy contrary to this Act as is above said to be levied and imployed after the form before expressed Provided alway that this Act nor any thing The Priviledges of Oxford and Cambridge therein contained beprejudicial to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge or either of them or to any priviledges granted to them Rast pla fol. 426. Anno xiiii xv Henrici octavi CAP. V. The priviledges and authority of Physicians in London IN their most humble wise shew unto your Highness your true and faithful subjects and liege men John Chambre Thomas Linacre Fernandus de Victoria your Physicians and Nicholas Halsewell John Fraunces and Robert Yaxley and all other men of the same faculty within the City of London and seven miles about that where your Highness by your most gracious Letters Pattents bearing date at Westminster the 23. day of September A body corporate of the faculty
Statute of 14. H. 8. Wherefore it was adjudged for the Plaintiff Coram Judice D. Jo. Popham APrilis die 8. Anno Dom. 1602. Compauerunt Rogerus Jinkins Simon Read in Aedibus Primarii Angliae Justitiarii D. Johannis Popham Equitis Aurati coram ipso Judice quiritantes de Injuria illis illata per Praesidentem Censores Collegii Medicorum quorum authoritate ob illegitimam Medicinae praxin in Carcerem conjecti sunt ibidemque jam per aliquot septimanas detenti Adfuerunt ex parte Collegii per Praesidentem missi Censores tres D. Johannes Nowell Edwardus Lyster Johannes Argent Incarceratorum causam agebat quidem Magister Harris Jurisperitus Judex prius sedulò perlectis iis Regni statutis quae ad medicinam faciunt Jinkins urgebat ut rationem redderet cur ausus sit Medicinam exercere licenti◠non priùs impetratâ à Collegio Medicorum Is Primùm Praxin denegavit Postea urgente magis Judice haesitanter ambigue respondit Tandem metuens ne Jurejurando premeretur fassus est se aliquando Practicasse idque ut putabat non illicitè Quid inquit Judex Obtinuistine unquam Collegii Commune Sigillum Non inquit ille Sed quia Chirurgus sum in opere Chirurgico saepe necessarius est internorum Medicamentorum usus Respondit Judex re ita urgente advocandum esse Medicum atque nullo modo licere Chirurgo medicum agere Objecit Jurisperitus Praesidentis Censorum authoritatem non eam esse quâ possint quenquam in Carcerem conjicere ideoque à Collegio ad alios Judices causam omnem esse promovendam Hunc reprehendit Judex asserebatque validam esse maximéque legitimam hac ex parte Collegii authoritatem Multùm tandem conquestus est Jinkins quòd ob raram praxin eamque ex aliorum Praescripto tam gravis ei Mulcta sit inflicta Tum Libro Annalium ostenso Compertum est eum jam antea sexties Publicè accusatum esse aliquoties etiam leves mulctas subiisse Unde Judici aequissimum visum est ut cum clementer tractatus incorrigibilem tamen se praebuisset graviori tandem mulcta premeretur Et eo quòd aliorum Medicorum Praescriptis ad suam Praxin saepius sit abusus Consultissimum putavit Medicor praescriptis Dies Mensis cum patientis Nomine adscribendus Judex ut omnes Medici Praescriptis suis omnibus diem mensis Patientis nomen inscribant unde fraus iis abutentium faciliùs deprehendi possit Judex Re auditâ Collegiique Censurâ optimè approbatâ Jinkins redditur Carceri Jinkins denuò Carceri reddendum censuit donec Praesidenti Censoribus satisfactum sit Cumque quorundam Amicorum instantiâ rogatus est Judex ut fide-jussoribus admissis immunitatem illi concederet à Carcere Non est inquit Judex penes me ut hoc faciam Legibus enim Regni illis solum datur ut istud concedant Quidam qui astabat objecit Statuto quodam regni cautum esse ne quis liber Civis Londinensis per forinsecum aliquem incarceretur Perlectis statuti verbis nulloque modo sensum hunc ferentibus Hujusmodi inquit Judex interpretationibus meam etiam possitis infringere authoritatem These words the Lord Chief Justice said in hearing this Cause 1. There is no sufficient Licence without the Colledge Seal 2. No Chirurgeon as a Chirurgeon may practise Physick no not for any disease though it be the great Pox. 3. That the authority of the Colledge is strong and sufficient to commit to prison 4. That the Censure of the Colledge rising from lesser mulcts to greater was equal and reasonable 5. That no man though never so learned a Physician or Doctor may practise in London or within seven miles without the Colledge Licence Annal. l. 1. pag. 155 156. Read conquestus est Collegium contra regni statutum ultra 20 l. paenam erogasse verbis statuti perpensis pronuntiavit Judex Collegio licere quam velint mulctam infligere custodem tamen carceris non esse astrictum ut eum detineat si sit ultra 20 l. Read praxin suam asseruit quod statuto regni cuivis concessum est per herbas c. aliquos saltem morbos curare at respondit Judex nonlicere quoniam non ad missus erat per Collegium Resolutions of Questions concerning the Colledge by the Lord Chancellor and Judges THe King having directed his Letters to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England Sir John Popham Lord chief Justice and one of his privy Councel They the said Lord Chancellor and Lord chief Justice by vertue of the same Letters called unto them Sir Thomas Fleminge then Lord chief Baron Sir Thomas Walmesley Sir Peter Warburton Knights Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas and Sir David Williams and Sir Lawrence Tanfield Justices of the Kings-Bench and after due consideration had both of the Charter of King Hen. 8. and several Acts of Parliament thereof made in the 14. year of the same King and the other in the first year of Queen Mary did on the first of May 1607. at the house of the said Lord Chancellor called York-house resolve the several Questions hereafter mentioned Quest 1 Whether Graduates of Oxford and Cambridge may practise in London or seven miles compass of the same without Licence under the said Colledge Seal by vertue of the clause in the end of the Statute of 14. Hen. 8. and whether that clause hath not relation to the Statute of 3. H. 8. only or how far it doth extend Resp 1 All resolved that no Graduate that is not admitted and licensed by the President and Colledge of Physicians under their common Seal could practise in London or within seven miles compass of the same Quest 2 Whether by Graduates Graduates in Physick only are to be understood Resp 2 They resolved that the Exception in the Statute of 14. H. 8. ca. 11. of Graduates in the two Universities is to be understood only of Graduates of Physick and of no others And all resolved that by that Exception those Graduates may practise in all other places of England out of London and seven miles of the same without examination but not in London nor within the said circuit of seven miles Quest 3 If Graduates not admitted to practise in London practise there whether for evil practise or misdemeanor therein they be not subject to the correction and government of the Colledge They all agreed that they are subject to the Resp 3 government and correction of the Colledge by an express clause of the said Charter enacted which giveth to the Censors Supervisionem scrutinium correctionem Gubernationem of all persons using the practise of Medicine within the City Quest 4 If they may not practise without admission of the Colledge as their Letters patents plainly import Then whether such Graduates are not subject to the Examination without which there were
after the custome of the said City The Barbers and Chirurgeons of London made one Company and incorporated of London and their successors from henceforth immediately be united and made one entire and whole body corporate and one Comminalty perpetual which at all times hereafter shall be called by the name of Masters or Governours of the mystery Comminalty of Barbers and Chirurgeons of London for evermore and by none other name And by the same name to implead and be impleaded before all manner of Justices in all Courts in all manner of Actions and Suits And also to purchase enjoy and take to them and to their successors all manner of lands tenements rents and other possessions whatsoever they be and also shall have a common Seal to serve for the business of the said Company and Corporation for ever And by the same name peaceably quietly and indifferently have possess and enjoy to them and to their successors for ever all such lands and tenements and other hereditaments whatsoever which the said Company or Comminalty of Barbers have and enjoy to the use of the said Mystery and Comminalty of Barbers of London And also shall peaceably and quietly have and enjoy all and singular benefits grants liberties priviledges franchises and free customes and also all manner of other things at any time given or granted unto the said Companies of Barbers or Chirurgeons by whatsoever name or names they or any of them were called and which they or any of them now have or any of their predecessors have had by acts of Parliament Letters Pattents of the Kings Highness or other his most noble progenitors or otherwise by any lawful means had at any time afore this present Act in as large and ample manner and form as they or any of them have had might or should enjoy the same this union or conjunction of the said companies together notwithstanding And as largely to have and enjoy the premises as if the same were and had been specially and particularly expressed and declared with the best and most clearest words and terms in the law to all intents and purposes And that The Barbers and Chirurgeons in London shall be exempt from bearing of armes or to be in watches or inquests 5. H. 8. 6. all persons of the said Company now incorporate by this present Act and their successors that shall be lawfully admitted and approved to occupy Chirurgery after the form of the Statute in that case ordained and provided shall be exempt from bearing of armour or to be put in any watches or inquests And that they and their successors shall have the search oversight punishment and correction as well of Freemen as of foreins for such offences as they or any of them shall commit or do against the good order of Barbery or Chirurgery as afore this time among the said mystery and Company of Barbers of London hath been used and accustomed according to the good and politick rules and ordinances by them made and approved by the Lords Chancellor Treasurer and two chief Justices of either Bench or any three of them after the form of the Statute in that case ordained and provided 19. H. 7. 7. And further be it enacted by the authority The Chirurgeons may take yearly four condemned persons for Anatomies aforesaid that the said Masters or Governors of the Mystery and Comminalty of Barbers and Chirurgeons of London and their successors yearly for ever after their said discretions at their free liberty and pleasure shall and may have and take without contradiction four persons condemned adjudged and put to death for felony by the due order of the Kings Lawes of this Realm for Anatomies without any further suit or labour to be made to the Kings Highness his Heirs or Successors for the same And to make incision of the same dead bodies or otherwise to order the same after their said discretions at their pleasures for their further and better knowledge instruction insight learning and experience in the said Science or Faculty of Chirurgery Saving unto all persons their heirs and successors all such right title interest and demand which they or any of them might lawfully claim to have in or to any of the lands and tenements with the appurtenances belonging unto the said Companie of Barbers and Chirurgeons or any of them at any time afore the making of this Act in as ample manner and form as they or any of them had or ought to have had heretofore Any thing in this present Act comprised to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And forasmuch as such persons being of the Mystery or Faculty of Chirurgery oftentimes meddle and take into their cure and houses such sick and diseased persons as been infected with the pestilence great Pocks and such other contagious infirmities do use or exercise Barbery as washing or shaving and other feats thereunto belonging which is very perillous for infecting the Kings liege people resorting to their shops and houses there being washed or shaven Wherefore it is now enacted or dained and provided by the authority aforesaid that no manner person within the City of London Suburbs of the same and one mile compass of the said City of London after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God next coming using any Barbery or shaving No Barber in London shall use Chirurgery or that hereafter shall use any Barbery or shaving within the said City of London Suburbs or one mile circuit of the same City of London he nor they nor none other for them to his or their use shall occupy any Chirurgery letting of bloud or any other thing belonging to Chirurgery drawing of teeth only except And furthermore in like manner whosoever that useth the mystery or craft of Chirurgery within the No Chirurgeon in London shall use the art of shaving circuit aforesaid as long as he shall fortune to use the said mystery or craft of Chirurgery shall in no wise occupy nor exercise the feat or craft of Barbery or shaving neither by himself nor by none other for him to his or their use And moreover that all manner of persons using Chirurgery for the time being as well freemen as foreins aliens and strangers within the said City of London the Suburbs thereof and one mile compass of the same City of London before the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming shall have an open sign on the street side where Every Chirurgeon in London shall have a Sign at his door they shall fortune to dwell that all the Kings liege people there passing by may know at all times whether to resort for their remedies in time of necessity And further be it enacted by the authority asoresaid None shall be a Barber in London but a Freeman of that Company That no manner of person after the said Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming presume to keep any shop of Barbery or shaving
better reformation of divers enormities happening to the Common-wealth by the evil using and undue administration of Physick and for the enlarging of further Articles for the better execution of the things contained in the said Grant enacted Be it therefore now enacted That whensoever Whosoever shall be committed to prison by the President of the Colledge of Physicians in London shal be received and kept thereby the President of the Colledge or Communalty of the faculty of Physick of London for the time being or such as the said President and Colledge shall yearly according to the tenor and meaning of the said Act authorised to search examine correct and punish all offenders and transgressors in the said faculty within the same City and precinct in the said Act expressed shall send or a commit any such offendor or offendors a Co. li. 8. fo 114. for his or their offences or disobedience contrary to any article or clause contained in the said Grant or Act to any Ward Goal or Prison within the same City and Precinct the Tower of London except That then from time to time the Warden Goaler or Keeper Wardens Goalers or Keepers of the Wards Goals and Prisons within the City or Precinct aforesaid except before excepted shall receive into his or their Prisons all and every such person and persons so offending as shall be so sent or committed to him or them as is aforesaid and there shall safely keep the person or persons so committed in any of their prisons at the proper costs and charges of the said person or persons so committed without bail or mainprise until such time as such offendor or offendors or disobedient be discharged of the said imprisonment by the said President and such persons as by the said Colledge shall be thereunto authorised upon pain that all and every such Warden Goaler or Keeper doing the contrary shall lose and forfeit The offenders forfeiture and who shall have it and by what means the double of such fine and amerciament as such offender and offenders or disobedients shall be assessed to pay by such as the said President and Colledge shall authorise as aforesaid so that the same fine and amerciament be not at any one time above the sum of xx li. the moity thereof to be employed to the use of our Soveraign Lady the Queen her Heirs and Successors the other moity unto the said President and Colledge All which forfeitures to be recovered by action of debt bill plaint or information in any of the Queens her Heirs and Successors Courts of Record against any such Warden Goaler or Keeper so offending in which suit no essoine wager of Law nor protection shall be allowed ne admitted for the defendant And further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid Searching in London for Apothecary wares 32 H. 8. 40. for the better execution of the search and view of Poticary wares Drugs and Compositions according to the tenour of a Statute made in the two and thirdieth year of the reign of the said late King Henry the eighth that it shall be lawful for the Wardens of the Grocers or one of them to go with the said Physicians in their view and search that if the said Warden or Wardens do refuse or delay his or their coming thereunto forthwith and immediately when the said President or four of his Colledge Elect as aforesaid do call upon him or them that then the said Physicians may and shall execute that search and view and the due punishment of the The penalty for resisting search of Apothecary wares Apothecaries for any their evil and faulty stuffe according to the Statute last before mentioned without the assistence of any of the said Wardens any clause in the aforenamed statute to the contrary hereof notwithstanding And every such person or persons as will or shall resist such search shall forfeit for every such resistence x. li. the same penalty to be recovered in form aforesaid without any of the delaies aforesaid to be had in suit thereof And further be it enacted that all Justices Other Magistrates shall assist the Physicians in their search Maiors Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables and other Ministers and Officers within the City and Precincts above written upon request to them made shall help aid and assist the President of the said Colledge and all persons by them from time to time authorised for the due execution of the said Acts or Statutes upon pain for not giving of such aid help and assistence to run in contempt of the Queens Majesty her Heirs and Successors Queen ELIZABETHS Charter for Anatomies ELizabetha Dei gratia Anglie Francie Hibernie regina fidei defensor c. Omnibus ad quos presentes litterae pervenerint salutem Cum preclarissime memorie Pater noster Henricus octavus nuper Rex Anglie inter nonnullas alias in commodum utilitatem regni sui Anglie preclare admodum statutas stabilitas ordinationes saluti subditorum suorum summopere invigilans per literas suas patentes Collegium perpetuum quorundam gravium virorum medicorum qui medicinam in urbe sua Londino suburbiis ejusdem intraque septem miliaria ab ea urbe quaqua versus publice exercerent instituerit incorporaverit eos in corpus corporatum politicum per nomen Presidentis Collegii seu communitatis facult at is medicine Londini concesserit eidem presidenti Collegii sive communitatis predicte successoribus suis diversas libertates privilegia Quas lras patentes omnia in iis contenta idem Pater nr non solum per senatus consultum seu Parliamentâ—m suum tentum Annis quarto decimo quinto decimo regni sui confirmavit sed etiam per idem statutum in multis ad auxit amplificavit Quod Quidem pium institutum dci Patris nri quandoquidem in reipublice commoditatem cessit manifestam in majorem indies cessurum verisimile sit sinos quod rem medicam profitentibus maxime necessarium est concesserimus predictis presidenti Collegii sive communitatis predicte successoribus suis inperpetuum quotannis quaedam humana corpora ad anatomizandum ut informamur Sciatis qd nos non modo preclaram institucoÌ„em dicti Patris nostri merito recolentes verumetiam regiâ— officii nri munus arbitrantes regiminis nostri subditorum incolumitati saluti securitati quantum in nobis est providere de gra nra spiali ac ex nra scientia ac mero motu nostris concessimus ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus successoribus nostris concedimus prefato Presidenti Collegii sive communitatis medicine Londini predict successoribus suis sive eorum assignatis qd habeant accipiant annuatim Temporibus futuris inperpetuum una vice vel diversis anni vicibus ad discrecoem voluntatâ—m libertatem predict presidis pro tempore existm successorum suorum unum duo tria vel quatuor
there are three sorts of men which meddle with the Body of a man First is the learned man which reads all Books extant and his knowledge is speculative and by that he knew the nature of all simples And the second is practive the knowledge of which is only his experience he may give Probatum est But the ignorance of the cause of the disease and the nature of the things which he applies for the cure of that And the third is an Impostor which takes upon him the knowledge which he hath not and every of them the Colledge may punish for Male utendo faciendo vel exequendo by what they will And this was not the first care which was had for in the 9. H. 5. was a private Act made for Physicians by which there is great regard to them which are learned and educated in the University And for that the Act provides that they shall not be prejudicial to any of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and with this agrees 3. H. 8. 11. and the priviledges of them and the Docti graves homines mentioned in the Letters Patents are the learned men mentioned in the Act for the Statute provides that they shall punish according to these Statutes and late edicts And by the former Lawes the Universities that their priviledges were excepted and by their former Statutes the Letters Patents ought to be directed for it is referred them Also the Statutes of this Realm have alwaies had great respect to the Graduats of the Universities and it is not without cause for Sudavit Alsit and hath no other reward but this degree which is Doctor and for that the Statute of 21. H. 8. prefers Graduates and provides that Doctors of Divinity or Bachelors shall be capable of two Benefices with Cure without dispensation And so 13. Eliz. provides that none shall be presented to a Benefice above the value of thirty pound per annum if he be not a Doctor or Bachelor of Divinity And to the objection that none shall practise in London or seven miles circuit of it without license that this clause shall be expounded according to the matter and to that he agreed for the other branches of the Statute are made to cherish grave and learned men and for that it shall not be intended that this branch was made for the punishment of those but of others which the Statute intended to punish And to the second objection that every Doctor is not the learned and grave man intended within the Statute for the knowledge of many of them is only speculative without practise to that he answered that all their Study is practise and that if they have no practise of themselves then they attend upon others which practise and apply themselves to know the nature of Simples And to the third objection that in London ought to be choice men for the Statute appoints that they shall be examined by the Bishop and Dean and four others at least and for that there is a more strict course for them then in other places to that it is agreed But he said that in the University there is a more strict course then this for here he ought to be publickly approved by many after he hath been examined and answered in the Schooles to divers questions and allowed by the Congregation-house And 35. H. 6. 55. Doctor is no addition but a degree quia gradatim progressione Doctrinae provenit to that and that Doctor is teacher and that he was first taught by others as Scholars afterwards he is Master and Doctor dicitur à docendo quia docere permittitur and they are called Masters of their faculty and that the Original of Doctor came of the Synagogue of Jewes where there were Doctors of Law and it appears that they had their ceremonies in time of H. 1. And when a man brings with him the Ensign of Doctrine there is no reason that he should be examined again for then if they will not allow of him he shall not be allowed though he be a learned and grave man and it was not the intent of the King to make a Monopoly of this practise And to the second point that he propounded it seems that the Justification is not good which is Quia non comparuit upon Summons he was amerced and ordered that he shall be arrested and being arrested being examined if he would submit himself to the Colledge he answered that he was a Doctor and had practised and would practise within the said City as he conceived he might lawfully do and for that shewing of this case he was committed to prison and he conceived two things upon the Charter First That it doth not inhibit a Doctor to practise but punisheth him for ill using exercising and making and may imprison the Emperick and Impostor and so prayed Judgement for the Plaintiff and after in Hillary Term in the same year this case was argued by all the Justices of the Common Bench and at two several daies and the first day it was argued by Foster Daniell and Warburton Justices at whose Arguments I was not present but Foster argued against the Plaintiff and Daniell and Warburton with him and that the Action of false imprisonment was well maintainable And the second day the same case was argued again by Walmesley Justice and Coke chief Justice and Walmesley argued as followeth that is that the Walmesley Statute of 3. H. 8. was in the negative that no person within the City of London or seven miles of that take upon him to exercise or occupy as Physician or Chirurgeon c. And he doth not know in any case where the words of the Statute are negative that they admit any Interpretation against that but one only and that is the Statute of Marlebridge chapter 4. Which provides that no Lord shall distrain in one County and the beasts distrained drive into another County in which case though that the words are negative yet if the Lord distrain in one Country he may drive his beasts to his Mannor in another County of which the Lands in which the distress was taken were held but it is equity and reason in this case that the Statute should admit such exception for it is not of malice but for that that the Beasts may remain within his Fee but in the principal case there is not the like reason nor Equity And also the King H. 8. in his Letters Patents recites as followeth that is Cum Regii officii nostri munus arbitremur ditionis nostrae hominum selicitati omni ratione consulere id autem vel imprimis fore si Improborum conatibus tempestive occurremus apprime necessarium duximus improborum quoque hominum qui medicinam magis avaritiae suae causa quam ullius bonae conscientiae fiducia profitebantur c. By which it appears that it is the office of a King to survey his Subjects and he is as a Physician to cure
sealed with the Common Seal which is not so in keeping shall be void and the opinion of the Court that this is a void Statute for it is imperttinent to be observed being the Seal in their keeping the Abbot cannot Seal any thing with it and when that it is in the hands of the Abbot it is out of their keeping ipsofacto And if the Statute shall be observed every common Seal shall be defeated by one simple surmise which cannot be tried and for that the Statute was adjudged void and repugnant And so the Statute of Glocester which gives Cessavit after Cesser by two years to be brought by the Lessor himself was a good and equitable Statute But the Statute of Westminster 2. chap. 3. which gives Cessavit to the Heir for Cesser in time of his Ancester and that that was judged an unreasonable Statute in 33. Ed. 3. for that that the Heir cannot have the arrearages due in the time of his Father according to the Statute of Glocester and for that it shall be void And also the Physicians of the Colledge could not punish any by Fine and also by Imprisonment for no man ought to be twice punished for one offence and the Statute of 1. Mariae doth not give any power to them to commit for any offence which was no offence within the first Statutes for that he ought not to be committed by the said Statute of 1. Mariae But admitting that they may commit yet they have mistaken it for they demand the whole hundred shillings and one half of that belongs to the King And also they ought to commit him forthwith as well as Auditors which have Authority by Parliament to commit him which is found in arrearages But if he do not commit him forthwith they cannot commit him afterward as it appears by 27. H. 6. 9. So two Justices of the Peace may view a force and make a Record of that and commit the offenders to Prison but this ought to be in Flagranti Oriente and if he do not commit those immediately upon the view he cannot commit them afterwards and the Physicians have no Court but if they have yet they ought to make a Record of their commitment for so was every Court of Justice But they have not made any Record of that And Auditors and Justices of Peace ought to make Records as it appears by the Book of Entries So that admitting that they may commit yet they ought to do it forthwith but in this case they cannot commit till the party shall be delivered by them for this is against Law and Justice and no Subject may do it but till he be delivered by due course of Law for the commitment is not absolute but the cause of that is traversable and for that ought to justifie for special cause for if the Bishop returns that he refuses a Clerk for that he is Schismaticus Inveteratus this is not good but they ought to return the particular matter So that the Court may adjudge of that Though it be a matter of Divinity and out of their Science yet they by conference may be informed of it and so of Physick And they cannot make any new Lawes but such only which are for the better government of the old and also he said plainly that it appears by the Statute of 1. Mariae That the former Statutes shall not be taken by equity for by these the President and Commons have power to commit a Delinquent to Prison and this shall be intended if they shall be taken by equity that every Goaler ought to receive him which is so committed But when it is provided by 1. Mariae specially that every Goaler shall receive such offenders That by this appears that the former Statute shall not be taken by equity And so he concluded that Judgement shall be entred for the Plaintiff which was done accordingly Coke in the conclusion of his argument observed these 7. things for the better direction of the President and Comminalty of the said Colledge for the time to come 1. That none may be punished for practise of Physick in London but by the forfeiture of 5 l. a Month which is to be recovered by Law 2. If any one practise Physick there less then a Moneth that he shall forfeit nothing 3. If any person prohibited by the Statute offend in non bene exequendo c. they may punish him according to the Statute within the Month. 4. Those whom they may commit to prison by the Statute ought to be committed presently 5. The fines which they impose according to the Statute belong to the King 6. They may not impose a fine or imprisonment without Record thereof 7. The cause for which they impose fine or imprisonment must be certain The Proceedings of the Colledge against Christopher Barton Weaver UPon the complaint of divers persons against the said Barton for practising of Physick the said Barton was sent for by a Messenger of his Majesties Chamber who appearing before the President and Censors the 6. of Septemb. 1639. and many things being laid to his charge yet for some reasons he was bound with sureties to appear again before them the 4. of October following And he then also appearing was for the Causes in the Censors Warrant expressed committed Bartons Commitment to the Prison of Woodstreet-Compter London where he remained till the 19. of October following never having by all that time petitioned the Colledge for his liberty and then by vertue of a Writ of hab Corpus which he had sued forth of the Kings-Bench he was carried with his Cause to the Kings-Bench Bar at Westminster The Copy of which Warrant and the return thereof here immediately ensueth Nos Johannes Warner Thomas Adams vic Civit London ss â— Sheriffs Râ—â—â—turn London Serenissimo Dno Regi in brevi huis schedul annex noiat ad diem locum in eodem bri content certificamus quod ante adventum nob predct bris scilt duodecimo die Sept. Anno Regni dci Dni Regis nunc Angl. c. decimo quinto Christophorus Barton in dco bri noiat comissus fuit prisone Dni Regis scilt Computator situat in Woodstreet London predct in eadem prisona sub Custodia Isaaci Pennington Johannis Wollaston tunc vic Civit. predct in eorum exit ab officio suo sub custodia nr detent virtute cujusdam Warranti Otwelli Meverell Laurentii Wright Edmundi Smith Willmi Goddard in Medicinis Dctor et Censor Collegii Medicor in London sub sigillo Coi Collegii Medicor London pred Custod predct computorii London predct vel ejus deputat direct cujus quidem Warranti tenor sequitur in haec verba ss We Otwell Meverell Lawrence Wright Edmund Colledge Warrant Smith and William Goddard Doctors in Physick and Censors of the Colledge of Physicians in London being chosen by the President and Colledge of Physicians aforesaid to govern and punish for this present
the Colledge as much immunity as in any sort to the Chirurgeons Whereupon the Court desired a Catalogue of the Members of the Colledge in number then 41. which was immediately done that others not of the Colledge might not delude them and so claim priviledge Hereupon ordered a dispensation of the Colledge from bearing of Arms and also a precept then awarded by the Major and Court to commit all other Physicians or Chirurgeons refusing to bear or find arms who were not by the Colledge allowed or Chirurgeons licenced according to form L. 2. Annal. pag. 17 18. Rot Parl. 32 H. 6. M. 17. REx adversa valetudine laborans de assensu Consilii sui assignavit Joannem Arundel Joannem Saceby W. Haâ—cliffe medicos Robertum Warren Joan Marshal Chirurgos ad libere ministrandum exequendum in circa personam suam Inprimis viz. quod licitè valeant moderare sibi dietam suam quod possint ministrare potiones syrupos Confectiones laxativas medicinas clysteria supositoria caput purgia gargarismata lealnen epithemata fomentationes embrocationes capitis rasuram unctiones emplastra cerata ventosa cum scarificatione vel sine Emorodorum Scarificationes c. Dante 's singulis in mandatis quod in executione praemissorum sint intendentes c. Upon this four things are to be observed 1. That no Physick ought to be given to the King without good warrant 2. This Warrant ought to be made by advice of his Councel 3. They ought to minister no other Physick then that is set down in writing 4. That they may use the aid of those Chirurgeons named in the Warrant but of no Apothecary but to prepare and do all things themselves c. And the reason of all this is the precious regard had of the health and safety of the King which is the head of the Common-wealth Cokes institutes pars 4. pag. 251. Physicians Chirurgeons soient sages en lour faculties eyent sans les consciences cy que rien ne ent failli a faire cure silz ne scavoyent a bone chiefe mitter ou silz a bon chiefe scavâ—yent entre-mettent nequidant follement ou negligentment issent que ilz mittont froid pur chaude ou le revers ou trop peu de cure ou nemi mitter un due diligence nosmement en arsons ad abscissions que sont defend a faire forsque al peril des mesters si lour patients morerent ou perdent memorie en tiels cases sont ilz homicides ou Mayhemers Mirror cap. 4. § de Homicide verb daut ' part To Our trusty and welbeloved the President and Censors of the Colledge of Physicians within the City of London JAMES REX TRusty and welbeloved We greet you well Whereas the Art of Physick by many unlearned men making gain by the profession thereof to the great hurt and prejudice of many of Our loving subjects is much abused in many places of this Our Realm but especially in our City of London and the Suburbs thereof the government whereof as touching the practise of the said Art and the practitioners thereof being by the Lawes and Statutes of the Realm committed unto you the President and Censors of our Colledge of Physicians and you having also from us by our Letters Patents more ample authority for the suppression and correction of such delinquents We therefore minding so far as in us lieth the speedy reformation of all such abuses and inconveniences do by these presents as heretofore yet more strictly charge and command you the President and Censors aforesaid to call before you all such irregular and ignorant practitioners as contrary to our Lawes and authority do abuse that Art and to examine their sufficiency and such as you shall find not sufficient to punish for their bad practise according to our Lawes in that case provided And Whereas we are credibly given to understand that many having been punished and warned by you to desist from any further practise do yet obstinately notwithstanding persist in their former contempt of our Lawes and commandments We will and command you that you proceed against such delinquents with all severity according to the tenor of our said Letters Patents and the due course of our Lawes by fine and imprisonment or by causing them to enter into recognizance with condition restraining them to offend any more or otherwise as the case shall require and shall be agreeable to justice And our will and pleasure is that such offenders as shall be so imprisoned shall there remain without being enlarged unless it be upon their conformity and submission to you the said president and Censors or other due course of Law wherein we require all our Judges and Justices that they be very careful and circumspect not to do any thing that may give encouragement to such offenders by enlarging any such too easily or without due examination of the causes of their commitment first calling thereto the said President and Censors or some of them to declare the true reasons and causes thereof And whereas we are given to understand that oftentimes upon the solicitation of some or other friend or person of quality sutor to you for the said delinquents after their conviction you have been moved to wink at their faults and neglect their punishment to the great prejudice of the health of many our poor subjects Our will and pleasure is and we do hereby straightly charge and command you that henceforth neither for favour friendship or respect of any you forbear the just censure and punishment due by our Lawes unto such delinquents as you shall answer to us on the contrary at your peril and that you require the aid and assistance of the Lord Major and Aldermen of our City of London whom by our Letters we have so required to do for your better expedition in the execution of this our Royal Will and Commandment not doubting but that you with more care will seek to suppress such intolerable abuses and satisfie our trusts in this case committed to you Given under our Signet at our Pallace of Westminster the second day of July in the twentieth year of our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the five and fiftieth The Kings Councel about the same time send a Warrant for Attachment of Empericks directed to all Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs Baileys Constables Headboroughs and all other his Majesties Officers and Ministers within the City of London and seven miles Butler made extraordinary Chirurgeon to the King was permitted by the Lord Keeper to be sued Annal. pag. 97. Blank had a Habeas Corpus 1637. but by the Judges was sent back to prison having been fined by the Censors 20 l ob malam praxia though he had Letters Patents from the Archbishop of Canterbury A Brief of what King James granted and defective in former Grants 1. THat whereas they were by the former Act enabled to keep Courts and Convocations and thither to convent and there to punish offenders but had no certain place limited now they have power to purchase a Hall peculiar for that purpose 2. Whereas they are by the former Act inabled to purchase only 12 l. revenue to the said Colledge now they have power by the Letters Patents to purchase to the value of 100 Marks per annum 3. Whereas the Colledge is authorised of old by suite to recover from all practisers in Physick without approbation from the Colledge 5 l. a moneth By the last Letters Patents they are authorised to punish such offenders contempt in not coming to the Colledge upon the President and Censors Warrants or in refusing to answer being come by a Fine of 40 s. and imprisonment till they have paid the same And for practising without License upon conviction they may fine the offenders in 3 l. and imprison them for seven daies and untill they have paid such fines 4. Whereas of old the Colledge might punish evil practitioners in Physick within their Limits by a Fine of 20 l. By their new Grant they may examine for Witnesses against them upon oath Chirurgeons and Apothecaries and Druggists And the Servants and Attendants upon the Sick and no others and fine them 20 s. for refusing to come or answer before them and upon conviction they may fine evill Practisers in Physick 10 l. and imprison them for 14. daies and until they pay the same Fine 5. Whereas of old the Physicians had power to search the Shops and Ware-houses of all Apothecaries Druggists Distillers and Sellers of Medicines and finding unwholsome Drugs and Medicines to burn them By their new Grant they are authorised to fine such offenders in 3 l. and to commit them untill they pay the same 6. Whereas of old the one half of all Fines to be imposed by the Colledge were granted to the said Incorporation in their new Grant all the said Fines are granted to them paying to the King his Heirs and Successors yearly 6 l. 7. In the new Grant the President and Censors are enabled to take Recognizances to the Kings Majesty of Offenders convicted of unlawful or evil practise with condition that they shall not commit like future offences and to imprison them if they refuse to be so bound 8. In the new Grant the Collegiates are freed from bearing or finding of Arms because they are subject to serve in person both in the Kings Armies and in his Fleets upon occasion 9. His Majesty promiseth his Royal Assent for enacting this Patent the next Parliament