Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)Paris, John Ayrton
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)
Paris, John Ayrton
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain
fines, amerciamenta, & imprisonamenta, corpor’ suor’ et per alias vias
rationab’ et congruas_.) The Charter then directs (_quantum in nobis
est_) that the president and fellows of the College, and their
successors, should be exempt from and should not be summoned to Assizes,
Juries, Inquests, Attaints, _et aliis recognitionibus_, by the Mayor,
Sheriffs, or Coroners of the City, even by the king’s writ. It was
provided however by the concluding clause that nothing contained in the
Charter should prejudice the City of London.
After the recital of the Charter the Statute proceeds to confirm the
same “in as ample and large manner as may be taken, thought, and
construed,” and directs the election of eight elects, from among whom
the president is to be annually chosen.
The concluding section of this act is important, as it evidently repeals
so much of the 3 _H._ 8. as refers to physicians, enacting, “that no
person from henceforth be suffered to exercise or practise in physic
through _England_[74] until such time as he be examined at London, by
the said President and Three of the said Elects; and to have from the
said President or Elects Letters Testimonials of their approving and
examination, except he be a Graduate of Oxford or Cambridge, which hath
accomplished all Things for his Form without any Grace.”[75]
The next Act which concerns the College is the 32d _Hen._ 8. _c._ 40.
(_see Appendix, p._ 14) by which it is enacted that the President,
Fellows, and Commons of the College, should be discharged from keeping
Watch and Ward in the City or its Suburbs, and that they shall not be
chosen to the office of Constable, or to any other office in the City or
Suburbs, any Order, Custom, or Law, to the contrary notwithstanding; By
the second section of this Act the power and office of the Censors,
which had been left somewhat undefined by the 14 & 15 _Hen._ 8. is more
accurately and fully determined. They are empowered to enter the houses
of all Apothecaries in the City, for the purpose _only_ of searching and
viewing their wares, drugs, and stuffs, and if any be found defective or
corrupted, they may cause them to be burnt, or otherwise destroyed, and
a penalty of five pounds,[76] to be recovered by any that will sue for
it, is inflicted on apothecaries who obstinately or willingly refuse or
deny the four Censors to enter into their houses; a penalty of forty
shillings is also inflicted on any Censor, who being elected, shall
refuse the oath directed to be taken, or neglect the execution of his
office. The oath of the censor, is by this act, directed to be
administered by the President of the College. The censors are also
obliged to take the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration in
the Court of Exchequer at Westminster, hence the impropriety, if not
illegality, of any Papist or Recusant being elected a Fellow of the
College.
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