The affidavits in answer to the rule disclosed the following (among other) facts. For two hundred years past there have been three classes of persons practising physic in _London_ and seven miles round; the fellows; candidates, persons desirous of becoming members and who have been examined and approved by the president and censors to be candidates for election into the society or fellowship; and the licentiates, who may practise as fully in all respects as fellows and have the same benefits and advantages. Various bye-laws have been made by the college respecting the qualifications of persons to be admitted fellows, one of them so long ago as 1637, by which it was ordained that no person should be admitted a fellow unless he had performed all his exercises and disputations in one of our universities without dispensation, and which has continued ever since with some little alterations. To prevent any mistakes arising from the words “_aliquâ Britanniæ Academiâ_” in some of the bye-laws respecting this qualification, an explanatory bye-law was made in 1751, in which it was declared that the meaning of the words was that no person should be admitted who was not a Doctor of Physic of _Oxford_ or _Cambridge_. The bye-laws of the college have been revised and altered since the year 1768. By those now in existence no person can be admitted a fellow unless he has been a candidate for a year, except in certain cases hereafter mentioned. No person can be admitted into the class of candidates unless he has been created a Doctor of Physic in the university of _Oxford_ or _Cambridge_, or unless he has obtained the same degree in the university of _Dublin_ and has been incorporated into one of the universities of _Oxford_ or _Cambridge_; nor can any such person be admitted into the class of candidates until after he has been examined as to his knowledge of physic in three of the greater or lesser meetings (called the _comitia majora_ and _comitia minora_) of the college. After a person has been a candidate for a year, he may be proposed by the president at one of the greater meetings and admitted a fellow, if the majority of fellows consent, without further examination. But by two other bye-laws persons not having the above qualifications may be proposed in one of two ways; by one, the president is enabled once in every other year at the _comitia minora_ to propose one licentiate of ten years standing, who may (if the major part of the _comitia minora_ consent) be proposed by the president at the next _comitia majora_ to be elected a fellow, and if the majority of fellows then present consent, he may then be admitted a fellow. By the other, any one of the fellows may propose any licentiate, of seven years standing and of the age of 36, in the _comitia majora_ to be examined; if the major part of the fellows consent, such licentiate may be examined by the president or vice-president and censors, and if approved