III. And forasmuch as the Science of Physic doth comprehend, include and contain the knowledge of Surgery, as a special Member and Part of the same, therefore be it enacted, That any of the said Company or Fellowship of Physicians, being able chosen and admitted by the said President and Fellowship of Physicians, may from time to time, as well within the City of _London_, as elsewhere within the Realm, practice and exercise the said Science of Physic in all and every his Members and Parts, any Act, Statute, or Provision made to the contrary notwithstanding. STATUTE. 32. _Hen._ 8. _c._ 42. For Barbers and Surgeons. ‘The King our Sovereign Lord, by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, by all their common Assents, duly pondering among other Things necessary for the Common Wealth of this Realm, that it is very expedient and needful to provide for Men expert in the Science of Physick and Surgery, for the Health of Man’s Body, when Infirmities and Sickness shall happen, for the due Exercise and Maintenance whereof good and necessary Acts be already made and provided; yet nevertheless, forasmuch as within the City of _London_, where Men of great Experience, as well in Speculation as in Practice of the Science and Faculty of Surgery, be abiding and inhabiting, and have more commonly the daily Exercise and Experience of the same Science of Surgery, than is had or used within other Parts of this Realm; and by occasion thereof many expert Persons be brought up under them as their Servants, Apprentices and others, who by the Exercise and diligent Information of their said Masters, as well now as hereafter, shall exercise the said Science within divers other parts of this Realm, to the great Relief, Comfort and Succour of much People, and to the sure Safeguard of their bodily Health, their Limbs and Lives; and forasmuch as within the said City of _London_, there be now two several and distinct Companies of Surgeons, occupying and exercising the said Science and Faculty of Surgery, the one Company being called _The Barbers of London_, and the other Company called _The Surgeons of London_, which Company of Barbers be incorporated to sue and be sued by the Name of Masters or Governors of the Mystery or Commonalty of the Barbers of _London_, by Virtue and Authority of the Letters Patents under the Great Seal of the late King of famous Memory, King _Edward_ the Fourth, dated at Westminster the four and twentieth of _February_, in the first year of his Reign, which afterward, as well by our now most dread Sovereign Lord, as by the right noble and virtuous Prince King _Henry_ the Seventh, Father unto the King’s most excellent Highness now being, were and be confirmed, as by sundry Letters Patents thereof made, amongst other things in the same contained, more at large may appear;