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 Persons that never used Feats of War nor ought to use, but only the Business and Exercise of their Science, to the Help and Comfort of the King's liege People in the time of their Need: And in the aforesaid City of London, from the time of their first Incorporation, when they have been many more in number than they now be, were never called nor charged to be on Quest, Watch, nor other Office, whereby they should use or occupy any Armour or defenceable Geer of War, where through they should be unready, and letted to practice the Cure of Men being in Peril;' Therefore for that there be so small Number of the said Fellowship of the Craft and Mystery of Surgeons, in regard of the great Multitude of Patients that be, and daily chance, and infortune happeneth and increaseth in the foresaid City of London, and that many of the King's liege People suddenly wounded and hurt, for Default of Help in Time to them to be shewed, perish, and so divers have done, as evidently is known, by occasion that your said Suppliants have been compelled to attend upon such Constableship, Watches and Juries, as is aforesaid; be it enacted and established by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and by the Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That from henceforth your said Suppliants be discharged, and not chargeable of Constableship, Watch, and of all manner of Office bearing any Armour, and also of all Inquests and Juries within the City of London: And also that this Act in all things do extend to all Barber Surgeons admitted and approved to exercise the said Mystery of Surgeons, according to the Form of the Statute lately made in that Behalf, so that they exceed not, nor be at one time above the number of Twelve Persons.