‘In consideration whereof, and for the further authorising of the same Letters Patents, and also enlarging of further Articles for the said Common Wealth to be had and made:’ Pleaseth it your Highness, with the assent of your Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, to enact, ordain, and establish, That the said Corporation of the said Commonalty and Fellowship of the Faculty of Physick aforesaid, and all and every Grant, Article, and other Thing, contained and specified in the said Letters Patents, be approved, granted, ratified, and confirmed in the present Parliament, and clearly authorized and admitted by the same, good, lawful, and available to your said Body Corporate, and their Successors for ever, in as ample and large manner as may be taken, thought, and construed by the same; and that it please your Highness, with the assent of your said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this your present Parliament assembled, further to enact, ordain, and establish, That the Six Persons beforesaid in your said most gracious Letters Patents named as Principals, and first named of the said Commonalty and Fellowship, choosing to them Two more of the said Commonalty, from henceforward to be called and cleaped _Elects_; and that the same Elects yearly choose One of them to be President of the said Commonalty, and as oft as any of the Rooms and Places of the same Elects shall fortune to be void, by Death or otherwise, then the Survivors of the said Elects (within Thirty or Forty Days next after the Death of them or any of them) shall choose, name and admit One or mo, as need shall require, of the most cunning and expert Men, of and in the said Faculty in _London_, to supply the said Room and Number of Eight Persons; so that he or they that shall be so chosen, be first by the said Survivors strictly examined after a Form devised by the said Elects, and also by the same Survivors approved. And where that in Dioceses in _England_, out of _London_, it is not light to find alway Men able sufficiently to examine (after the Statute) such as shall be admitted to exercise Physick in them, that it may be enacted in this present Parliament, That no Person from henceforth be suffered to exercise or practice in Physick through _England_, 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. ------- 32. _Hen._ 8. _c._ 40. For Physicians and their Privilege.