Alsoe this daye the said Nicholas Downeing was fined by this Court at vj{s.} viij{d.} for his uncivill behavio{r} to M{r} John Woodall an auncient M{r} of this Companie. 6th October, 1635. Alsoe Nicholas Downeing being here in Court was required to paye his three fines according to his promise the last Thursdaye, denied to paye them, is by this Court comitted to the Compter in Wood Streete in my lord Maio{r} of Londons name. The following entry is not complimentary to Dr. William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, the marginal note in the minute book being “Doctor Harveys ill practise.” 17th November, 1635. This daye W{m} Kellett being called here in Court for not makeing presentac͠on of one M{r} Kinnersleys maide that died in his charge, he saied here in Court that M{r} Doctor Harvye being called to the patient did upon his vew of the patient saie, that by the meanes of a boulster the tumor on the temporall muskle would be discussed and his opinion was, that there was noe fracture but the vomiteing came by reason of the foulenesse of the Stomacke, and to that purpose pˀscribed physick by Briscoe the Apothecarye, soe the patient died by ill practise, the fracture being neglected & the Companie not called to the vew. The next entry illustrates the peremptory method of dealing with a quack:-- 22nd October, 1635. One Christopher Hatton whoe saied he waighteth on S{r} W{m} Belfore his Ma{t}ꝭ Lieutenant of The Tower came to this Court to knowe the reason of the Companies takeing downe of Lãw Raylens banner or mountabanck table of bladders & stones being a stranger borne & then were hung upon Tower hill execution place, this Courts answere was that by the Lawes & Charters of this Companie they tooke & demolished them. ALSO the said Lawrence Ruylen a mountabanck was called here in Court and ordered to paye his fine of v{li} for hanging his signes tables bladders and stones upon the publique postꝭ in streetes & on the Traitors scaffold on Tower hill in an exorbitant manner being contrary to the Lawes and Charters of this Companie confirmed according to Lawe And this Court doth order that those signes and bladders shalbe demolished and he is forbidden from further practiseing any pˀt of Surgerye hereafter within London or 7 miles Compasse of this Cittye. 1637. For several years prior to and about this period numerous entries occur of Surgeons being fined £5 for going to sea without license or without having their sea chests examined, also for sending their apprentices to sea as surgeons’ mates without examination.