that will sue for it by Action of Debt, in which no Wager of Law nor Protection shall be allowed. II. And over this, That no Person out of the said City, and Precinct of Seven 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 Surgeon, 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 Seal to him that they shall so approve, upon like pain to them that occupy the contrary to this Act (as is above said) to be levied and imployed after the Form before expressed. III. Provided alway, That this Act, nor any thing therein contained, be prejudicial to the Universities of _Oxford_ or _Cambridge_, or either of them, or to any Privileges granted to them. _Memorand._ That ‘Surgeons be comprised in this Act like as Physicians, for like mischief of ignorant Persons presuming to exercise Surgery.’ STATUTE. 5. _Hen._ 8. _c._ 6. An Act concerning Surgeons to be discharged of Quests and other things. ‘Sheweth unto your discreet Wisdoms, your Humble Orators the Wardens and Fellowship of the Craft and Mystery of Surgeons enfranchised in the City of _London_, not passing in number Twelve Persons, that whereas they and their Predecessors, from the time that no mind is to the contrary, as well in this noble City of _London_, as in all other Cities and Boroughs within this Realm or elsewhere, for the continual Service and Attendance that they daily and nightly, at all Hours and Times, give to the King’s liege People, for the Relief of the same, according to their Science, have been exempt and discharged from all Offices and Business wherein they should use or bear any manner of Armour or Weapon, and with like Privilege have been intreated as Heralds of Arms, as well in Battles and Fields, as other places, therefore to stand unharnessed and unweaponed, according to the Law of Arms, because they be Persons that never used Feats of War nor ought to use, but only the Business and Exercise of their Science, to the Help and Comfort of the King’s liege People in the time of their Need: And in the aforesaid City of _London_, from the time of their first Incorporation, when they have been many more in number than they now be, were never called nor charged to be on Quest, Watch, nor other Office, whereby they should use or occupy any Armour or defenceable Geer of War, where through they should be unready, and letted to practice the Cure of Men being in Peril;’ Therefore for that there be so small Number of the said Fellowship of the Craft and Mystery of Surgeons, in regard of the great Multitude of Patients that be, and