Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)Paris, John Ayrton
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)
Paris, John Ayrton
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain
The Kings most Excellent Majesty having directed his Letters to the
Right honourable Thomas Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor of England, and
to Sir John Popham Knight, Lord Chief Justice of England and one of his
Highnesses most honourable Privy Council, They the said Lord Chancellor
and Lord Chief Justice by virtue of the same Letters called unto them
Sir Thomas Fleminge Knight, then Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty’s Court
of Exchequer, Sir Thomas Walmesley & Sir Peter Warburton, Knights, two
of his Majesty’s Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, and Sir David
Williams and Sir Laurence Tanfield Knights two of his Majesties Justices
of the King’s Bench, and after due consideration had both of the Charter
of King Henry the eighth made unto the said President and College of
Physicians in the tenth year of his Reign, and several Acts of
Parliament thereof made, one in the fourteenth year of the same King,
and the other in the first year of Queen Mary, for the ordering and
governing of the said College and of all the Practisers in _London_ and
seven miles compass, did on the first of May 1607 at the house of the
said Lord Chancellor called _York_ House, resolve the several questions
hereafter mentioned, as is expressed under every Question.
Quest. 1. Whether Graduates of Oxford and Cambridge may practise in
_London_ or seven miles compass of the same without licence under the
said College Seal, by virtue of the clause in the end of the Statute of
14. H. 8. and whether that clause hath not relation to the Statute of 3.
H. 8. onely, or how far it doth extend?
Resp. All resolved, that no Graduate that is not admitted and licenced
by the President and College of Physicians under their Common Seal,
could practise in London or within 7 miles compass of the same.
Quest. 2. Whether, by Graduates, Graduates in Physick onely are to be
understood?——
Resp. They resolved That the exception in the Statute of 14. H. 8. cap.
5. of Graduates in the two Universities, is to be understood onely of
Graduates of Physick and of no others. And all resolved, That by that
exception those Graduates may practise in all other places of _England_
out of _London_ and 7 miles of the same without examination; But not in
_London_ nor within the said Circuit of 7 miles.
Quest. 3. If Graduates not admitted to practise in _London_ practise
there, whether, for evil practice or misdemeanor therein, they be not
subject to the Corporation and Government of the College?
Resp. They all agreed, That they are subject to the Government and
correction of the College by an express Clause of the said Charter
enacted which giveth to the President and College _Supervisionem
Scrutinium, Correctionem & Gubernationem_ as well of all persons using
the practise of Medicine within the City &c.
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