It may be necessary to premise that though several subsequent Charters[72] have been prepared for or offered to the acceptance of the College of Physicians (as 15 _James_ and 15 _Charles_ 2. for which _see_ Sir _Wm._ _Brown’s_ Vindication, Dr. _Chas. Goodall’s_ Collection, and other works, most of which are enumerated in _Gough’s_ Topography of London), yet the Charter and Statute of _Henry_ the 8th is still the subsisting ground of the rights, privileges, and powers of the Corporation. By their Charter recited in, and confirmed by the 14th and 15th _Hen._ 8. (_see Appendix_, _p._ 7) _John Chambre_, _Thomas Linacre_, _Ferdinando de Victoria_,[73] physicians to the king, and _Nicholas Halsewel_, _John Francis_, and _Robert Yaxley_, physicians, and the rest of the faculty in and of London, are constituted a perpetual college or community, with power annually to choose a President, who is to govern and superintend the College, and all men of the faculty and their practice (_omnes homines ejusdem facultatis et negotia eorundem_,) they are to have perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to hold lands to an amount therein limited (but which has since been enlarged by other Charters) notwithstanding the statute of Mortmain. They may sue and be sued by the name of the President and College or Community of the Faculty of Physic in London (_per nomina Presidentis et collegii seu communitatis facultatis medicinæ Lond’_); they may hold meetings (_congregationes licitas et honestas_) and make bye-laws (_stat’ et ordinationes_) for the good government, superintendance, and correction (_pro salubri gubernatione, supervisu, et correctione_) not only of the College but of all persons exercising the faculty in the city, or within seven miles thereof, (_omnium hominum eandem facultatem in dicta civitate seu per septem miliaria in circuitu ejusdem civitatis exercen’_). And it was granted to the College that none should exercise the faculty of physic within the city, or seven miles thereof, unless they had been admitted by the President and College by letters under their common seal, under the penalty of five pounds (_centum solidorum_) for every month during which such unlicenced person (_non admissus_) should practice; one half of the said penalty to the King, and one half to the President and College. The Charter further directs that the President and College should every year elect four (censors) who should have the superintendance, correction, and government of all persons exercising the faculty of medicine in any manner (_aliquo modo frequentantium et utentium_) in the city, or within seven miles thereof; with powers to punish for mal-practice (_ac punitionem eorund’ pro delictis suis in non bene exequendo, faciendo, et utendo illa_) and with power of superintendance and scrutiny of all medicines and their administration, provided that the punishment should be by fines, amercements, imprisonment, and other reasonable modes (_per