Still another incentive toward medical study may have been a requirement in chapter 25 of the original statutes. In accordance with this all fellows of the college who held the degree of Master of Arts were required to assume holy orders, unless deputed to the study of medicine. It has been suggested that recipients of this exception were originally expected to attend to the medical needs of the other inmates of the college,[27] and it seems likely that Edwardes was one of these _medicinae deputati_. Our next record indicates that he had removed to the University of Cambridge where in 1528-9, and upon payment of 3_s._ 4_d._[28] and after lecturing publicly upon Galen’s _De Differentiis Febrium_, he was incepted in medicine with recognition of ‘seven years study of medicine’, presumably at Oxford.[29] In his only known book, to be considered later, Edwardes informs us that his first practice of medicine had been ‘at Bristol, having left my teachers only shortly before and begun to swim without any support’,[30] although it is not clear whether this represented a brief interlude between Oxford and Cambridge or after he had received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Whatever the case may have been, the few remaining autobiographical references are to his practice in and around Cambridge. As a member of the Faculty of Medicine, it is possible that Edwardes was criticized for devoting an excessive amount of time to his private practice, since in 1530-1 permission was granted him to be excused from a statutory requirement of attendance at ‘all congregations, masses and exequies’.[31] Nevertheless he participated in the examinations of at least two students, one in 1537-8[32] and the other in 1540-1.[33] Edwardes’s little book, to which reference was made above, was published in London in 1532 [O.S.] by Robert Redman. It is composed of two treatises of which the first, entitled _On Symptoms and Prognostications_ (_De Indiciis et Praecognitionibus_), deals with uroscopy and medical prognostication, and since it represents merely the continuation of a medieval tradition it is of little importance except, as has been said, for its few autobiographical details. In his practice of medicine Edwardes appears to have represented, as we might expect, a combination of the old and the new. While giving support to uroscopy and displaying some sympathy toward folk medicine, he also gave allegiance to Hippocrates and Galen, and like his continental colleagues of this period he was not averse to the introduction of a word or even several lines of Greek into his text, so indicating his enthusiasm for and his ties with the classical revival. Furthermore, he was certainly one of the first English physicians to appreciate Linacre and terms him ‘the most learned physician of his age’.[34]