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 APPENDIX

TO

PART I.

STATUTES AND CHARTERS.

STATUTE.

9 Hen. 5.

[Cited by Sir Wm. Browne in his Vindication of the College of Physicians. Quarto, London 1753]

Ex Bundello petitionum de an^o. 9^o. H. 5. in Parliamento.

and most mighty prince noble and worthy lords spirituelx and temporelx and worshipfull comunes, for so moche as a man hath thre things to governe, that is to say soule, body, and worldly goods, the which ought and shulde ben principaly reweled by thre sciences, that ben divinitie, fisyk, and lawe, the soule by divinitie, the body by fisyk, worldly goods by lawe, and those conynges should be used and practised principally by the most connyng men in the same sciences, and most approved in cases necessaries to encrese of virtue, long life, and gouds of fortune, to the worship of God and comyn profit.

But worthi soveraines hit is known to your hey discretion, meny uncunning and unaproved in the aforesaide science practiseth, and specialy in fysyk, so that in this realme is