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 STATUTE.

14 and 15 Hen. 8. c. 5.

The Privileges and Authority of Physicians in London.

'In the most humble wise shew unto your Highness, your true and faithful Subjects and liege Men John Chambre, Thomas Linacre, Ferdinandus de Victoria, your Physicians, and Nicholas Halsewell, John Frances, and Robert Yaxley, and all other men of the same Faculty within the City of London, and Seven Miles about, that where your Highness (by your most gracious Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster, the xxiii Day of September, in the tenth year of your noble Reign) for the Commonwealth of this your Realm, in due exercising and practising of the Faculty of Physick, and the good Ministration of Medicines to be had, hath incorporate and made of us, and of our Company aforesaid one Body and Perpetual Commonalty or Fellowship of the Faculty of Physick, and to have perpetual Succession and common Seal, and to choose yearly a President of the same Fellowship and Commonalty, to oversee, rule and govern the said Fellowship and Commonalty, and all men of the same Faculty, with divers other Liberties and Privileges by your Highness to be granted for the Common Wealth of this your Realm, as in your said most gracious Letters Patents more at large is specified and contained, the Tenour whereof followeth in these Words:—

[The Charter of Incorporation].

"Henricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliæ & Franciæ & Dominus Hiberniæ, omnibus ad quos præsentes literæ pervenerint salutem. Cum regii officii nostri