(_From_ 8 _Co. Rep._ 114.) _Hil._ 7 _Jac._ 1. THOMAS BONHAM, doctor in philosophy and physic, brought an action of false imprisonment against Henry Atkins, George Turner, Thomas Moundford, and John Argent, doctors in physic, and John Taylor, and Wm. Bowden yeomen; for that the defendants, the 10 Nov. _anno_ 4 _Jacobi_, did imprison him, and detain him in prison seven days. The defendants pleaded the letters patent of King H. 8. bearing date the 23 Septemb. _anno_ 10 of his reign, by which he recites, [112]_Quod cum Regii officii sui, &c._ (_quod vide ante p._ 7.) But the case at bar doth principally consist on two clauses in the charter. The first, _concessimus etiam eisdem presidenti, &c._ (_quod vide ante p._ 10). The second clause is, which immediately follows in these words, _præterea voluit, &c._ (_quod vide ante p._ 10.) And afterwards, by act of Parliament made _anno_ [113]14 H. 8. it was enacted, that the said corporation, and every grant, article, and other things in the said letters patent contained and specified, should be approved, granted, ratified, and confirmed, &c. _in tam amplo & largo modo prout poterit acceptari, cogitari, et construi per easdem literas patentes_. And further it was enacted, that the said six persons named in the said letters patent, as principal of the said college, should elect to them two other of the said college, who should be named _electi_, and that the said elects should chose one of them to be president, as by the said act appears: and further, they pleaded the act of [114]1 _Mariæ_, by which it is enacted, _Quod quædam concessio, &c._ And further it was enacted, “That whensoever the president of the college, or commonalty of the faculty of physic at London for the time being, or such as the said president and college shall yearly, according to the tenor and meaning of the said act, authorize to search, examine, correct, and punish all offenders and transgressors in the said faculty, &c. shall send or commit any such offender or offenders for his or their offence or disobedience, contrary to any article or clause contained in the said grant or act, to any ward, gaol, or prison, &c.” (see p. 26.) And further pleaded, that the said Thomas Bonham, 10 April, 1606, within London, against the form of the said letters patent, and the said acts, _exercebat artem medicinæ, non admissus per literas præd’ presidentis & collegii sigillo eorum communi sigillat’ ubi revera præd’ Tho. Bonham fuit minus sufficiens ad artem medicinæ exercend’_. By force of which, the said Thomas Bonham, 30 _Aprilis_ 1606, was summoned in London by the censors or governors of the college, _ad comparend’ coram præsiden’ & censor’ sive gubernatorib’ collegii præd’_ at the college, &c. the 14th day of April next following, _super præmissis examinand’_. At which day the said Tho. Bonham came before the president and censors, and was