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 discretion; and if the said Apothecaries or any of them at any time hereafter do obstinately or willingly refuse or deny the said four Persons yearly elected and chosen, as is before said, to enter into their said House or Houses for the Causes, Intent and Purpose before rehearsed; that then they and every of them so offending contrary to this Act, for every time that he or they do so offend, to forfeit C. s. the one Half to your Majesty and the other Half to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of the King's Courts, wherein no Wager of Law, Essoin or Protection shall be allowed; and if the said four Persons or any of them so elected and chosen as before is said, do refuse to be sworn, or after his said Oath to him or them administered, do obstinately refuse to make the said Search and View once in the Year, or at such time as they shall think most convenient by their Discretions, having no lawful impediment by Sickness or otherwise, to the contrary; that then for every such wilful and obstinate Default, every of the said four Persons making Default to forfeit forty Shillings.

III. And forasmuch as the Science of Physic doth comprehend, include and contain the knowledge of Surgery, as a special Member and Part of the same, therefore be it enacted, That any of the said Company or Fellowship of Physicians, being able chosen and admitted by the said President and Fellowship of Physicians, may from time to time, as well within the City of London, as elsewhere within the Realm, practice and exercise the said Science of Physic in all and every his Members and Parts, any Act, Statute, or Provision made to the contrary notwithstanding.