innate goodnesse, and zeale for the good of the Church and Commonwealth, and the honour of the Universities, I am fully perswaded, will grant what you desire, against Apothecaries and Chirurgeons, and all others which without Licence and authority do practise Physick, I could wish there were some course taken; I know there be already good Lawes, if they were put in execution. This much in haste (as you may perceive by my writing) I thought good to signify unto you, out of the grateful respect which I beare unto yourself and the whole College, tending the honour of our common Profession, which I will maintain as much as in me lyes, and vindicate from the invasions of Usurpers and Intruders. I have exceeded I feare the bounds of a Letter, but that you will pardon I hope considering the occasion. And soe with a gratefull acknowledgment of your love and favour towards me and an ingenuous profession of much service I owe unto you, I take my leave, as one that will be ready, upon the least signification, to embrace your commands, and execute them with all alacrity. Yours in all dutiful respects RALPHE WINTERTON. From the King’s College in Cambridge, August 25th, 1635. LILLY’S DIPLOMA. THE LICENSE OF DR. SHELDON, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, GRANTED TO WILLIAM LILLY, THE ASTROLOGER, TO PRACTISE PHYSIC. _Dated A. D. 1670._ “Gilbertus providentia divina Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus totius Angliæ Primas et Metropolitanus, dilecto nobis in Christo _Gulielmo Lilly_ in Medicinis professori, salutem, gratiam, et benedictionem. Cum ex fide digna relatione acceperimus te in arte, sive facultate medicinæ per non modicum tempus versatum fuisse, multisque de salute et sanitate corporis verè desperatis (Deo omnipotente adjuvante) subvenisse, eosque sanasse, nec non in arte predicta multorum peritorum laudabili testimonio pro experientia, fidelitate, diligentia et industria circa curas quas susceperis, peragendas in hujusmodi arte Medicinæ merito commendatum esse, ad practicandum igitur, et exercendum dictam artem Medicinæ in et per totam Provinciam nostram Cant: (_Civitate Lond’ et circuitu septem millarum eidem prox’ adjacen’ tantummodo exceptis_,) ex causis prædictis et aliis nos in hoc per te juste moventibus, præstito primitus per te juramento de agnoscendo Regium supremam potestatem in causis ecclesiasticis et temporalibus ac de renunciando, refutando, et recusando omni, et omni modo jurisdictioni, Potestati, Authontati, et Superioritati, foraneis juxta vim formam et effectum Statui Parlamenti hujus inclyti regni Angliæ liceat et non aliter neque alio modo te admittimus, et approbamus tibique licentiam et facultatem nostras in hac parte, Tenore præsentium quamdiu te bene et laudabiliter gesseris benignè concedimus et elargimur. In cujus rei testimorium sigillum (quo in hac parte utimur) presentibus apponi fecimus. _Dat. Undecimo Die