and the other Company called the Surgeons, be not incorporate, nor have any manner of Corporation; which two several and distinct Companies of Surgeons were necessary to be united, and made one Body incorporate, to the intent that by their Union and often assembly together, the good and due Order, Exercise, and Knowlege of the said Science or Faculty of Surgery should be as well in Speculation as in Practice, both to themselves, and all other their said Servants and Apprentices, now and hereafter to be brought up under them, and by their Learnings and diligent and ripe Informations, more perfect, speedy and effectual Remedy should be, than it hath been, or should be if the said two Companies of Barbers and Surgeons should continue severed asunder, and not joined together, as they before this time have been, and used themselves not medling together;’ wherefore in consideration of the Premisses, be it enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and by the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said two several and distinct Companies of Surgeons, that is to say, both the Barbers and the Surgeons and every Person of them, being a Freeman of either of the said Companies after the Custom of the said City of _London_, and their Successors from henceforth, immediately be united and made one entire and whole body corporate and one Commonalty perpetual, which at all times hereafter shall be called by the name of _Masters or Governors of the Mystery and Commonalty of Barbers and Surgeons of London_, for evermore, and by none other name; and by the same name to implead and be impleaded before all manner of Justices, in all courts, in all manner of Actions and Suits, and also to purchase, enjoy, and to take to them and to their Successors, all manner of Lands, Tenements, Rents, and other Possessions, whatsoever they be; and also shall have a Common Seal, to serve the business of the said Company and Corporation for ever, and by the same name peaceably, quietly, and indefeasably shall have, possess and enjoy to them and to their Successors for ever all such Lands and Tenements, and other Hereditaments whatsoever, which the said Company or Commonalty of Barbers have and enjoy to the Use of the said Mystery and Commonalty of Barbers of _London_; and also shall peaceably and quietly have and enjoy all and singular Benefices, Grants, Liberties, Privileges, Franchises and free Customs, and also all manner of other Things at any time given or granted unto the said Companies of Barbers or Surgeons by whatsoever name or names they or any of them were called, and which they or any of them now have, or any of their Predecessors have had, by Act of Parliament, Letters Patents, of the King’s Highness, or other his most noble Progenitors, or otherwise by any lawful means have had at any time afore this present Act, in as large and ample Manner and Form as they or