II. And that it may please your most Royal Majesty, by the Authority aforesaid, That it may be further enacted, ordained and established, for the common Wealth and Surety of your loving Subjects of this your Realm, in and for the Administration of Medicines to such of your said Subjects as shall have Need of the same, That from henceforth the said President for the Time being, Commons and Fellows, and their Successors may yearly at such time as they shall think most meet and convenient for the same, elect and choose four Persons of the said Commons and Fellows, of the best learned, wisest and most discreet, such as they shall think convenient, and have Experience of the said Faculty of Physick, and that the said four Persons so elected and chosen, after a corporal Oath to them ministered by the said President or his Deputy, shall and may, by virtue of this present Act, have full Authority and Power, as often as they shall think meet and convenient, to enter into the House or Houses of all and every Apothecary, now or at any time hereafter using the Mystery or Craft of Apothecary within the said City, only to search, view and see such Apothecary Wares, Drugs and Stuffs, as the said Apothecaries or any of them have, or at any time hereafter shall have, in their House or Houses; and all such Wares, Drugs and Stuffs, as the said four Persons shall then find defective, corrupted, and not meet nor convenient to be ministered in any medicines for the Health of Man’s Body, the same four Persons calling to them the Warden of the said Mystery of Apothecaries within the said City for that time being, or one of them, shall cause to be brent or otherwise destroy the same, as they shall think meet by their discretion; and if the said Apothecaries or any of them at any time hereafter do obstinately or willingly refuse or deny the said four Persons yearly elected and chosen, as is before said, to enter into their said House or Houses for the Causes, Intent and Purpose before rehearsed; that then they and every of them so offending contrary to this Act, for every time that he or they do so offend, to forfeit C. _s._ the one Half to your Majesty and the other Half to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of the King’s Courts, wherein no Wager of Law, Essoin or Protection shall be allowed; and if the said four Persons or any of them so elected and chosen as before is said, do refuse to be sworn, or after his said Oath to him or them administered, do obstinately refuse to make the said Search and View once in the Year, or at such time as they shall think most convenient by their Discretions, having no lawful impediment by Sickness or otherwise, to the contrary; that then for every such wilful and obstinate Default, every of the said four Persons making Default to forfeit forty Shillings.