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 STATUTE.

32. Hen. 8. c. 42.

For Barbers and Surgeons.

'The King our Sovereign Lord, by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, by all their common Assents, duly pondering among other Things necessary for the Common Wealth of this Realm, that it is very expedient and needful to provide for Men expert in the Science of Physick and Surgery, for the Health of Man's Body, when Infirmities and Sickness shall happen, for the due Exercise and Maintenance whereof good and necessary Acts be already made and provided; yet nevertheless, forasmuch as within the City of London, where Men of great Experience, as well in Speculation as in Practice of the Science and Faculty of Surgery, be abiding and inhabiting, and have more commonly the daily Exercise and Experience of the same Science of Surgery, than is had or used within other Parts of this Realm; and by occasion thereof many expert Persons be brought up under them as their Servants, Apprentices and others, who by the Exercise and diligent Information of their said Masters, as well now as hereafter, shall exercise the said Science within divers other parts of this Realm, to the great Relief, Comfort and Succour of much People, and to the sure Safeguard of their bodily Health, their Limbs and Lives; and forasmuch as within the said City of London, there be now two several and distinct Companies of Surgeons, occupying and exercising the said Science and Faculty of Surgery, the one Company being called The Barbers of London, and the other Company called The Surgeons of London, which Company of Barbers be incorporated to sue and be sued by the