daily chance, and infortune happeneth and increaseth in the foresaid City of _London_, and that many of the King’s liege People suddenly wounded and hurt, for Default of Help in Time to them to be shewed, perish, and so divers have done, as evidently is known, by occasion that your said Suppliants have been compelled to attend upon such Constableship, Watches and Juries, as is aforesaid; be it enacted and established by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and by the Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That from henceforth your said Suppliants be discharged, and not chargeable of Constableship, Watch, and of all manner of Office bearing any Armour, and also of all Inquests and Juries within the City of _London_: And also that this Act in all things do extend to all Barber Surgeons admitted and approved to exercise the said Mystery of Surgeons, according to the Form of the Statute lately made in that Behalf, so that they exceed not, nor be at one time above the number of Twelve Persons. STATUTE. 14 _and_ 15 _Hen._ 8. _c._ 5. The Privileges and Authority of Physicians in _London_. ‘In the most humble wise shew unto your Highness, your true and faithful Subjects and liege Men _John Chambre_, _Thomas Linacre_, _Ferdinandus de Victoria_, your Physicians, and _Nicholas Halsewell_, _John Frances_, 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 Patent bearing date at _Westminster_, the xxiii Day of _September_, in the tenth year of your noble Reign) for the Commonwealth of this your Realm, in due exercising and practising of the Faculty of Physick, and the good Ministration of Medicines to be had, hath incorporate and made of us, and of our Company aforesaid one Body and Perpetual Commonalty or Fellowship of the Faculty of Physick, and to have perpetual Succession and common Seal, and to choose yearly a President of the same Fellowship and Commonalty, to oversee, rule and govern the said Fellowship and Commonalty, and all men of the same Faculty, with divers other Liberties and Privileges by your Highness to be granted for the Common Wealth of this your Realm, as in your said most gracious Letters Patents more at large is specified and contained, the Tenour whereof followeth in these Words:— [_The Charter of Incorporation_].