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 shall be exempt from bearing of Armor, or to be put in any Watches or Inquests; and that they and their Successors shall have the Search, Oversight, Punishment, and Correction, as well of Freemen as of Foreigners for such Offences as they or any of them shall commit or do against the good Order of Barbery or Surgery, as afore this Time among the said Mystery and Company of Barbers of London hath been used and accustomed, according to the good and politick Rules and Ordinances by them made, and approved by the Lord Chancellor, Treasurer and two chief Justices of either Bench, or any three of them after the Form of the Statute in that case ordained and provided.

II. And further be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Masters or Governors of the Mystery and Commonalty of Barbers and Surgeons of London and their Successors yearly for ever, after their said Discretions, at their free Liberty and Pleasure, shall and may have and take without Contradiction four persons condemned, adjudged, and put to death for Felony by the due Order of the King's Laws of this Realm for Anatomies, without any further Suit or Labour to be made to the King's Highness, his Heirs or Successors of the same; and to make Incision of the same dead bodies, or otherwise to order the same after their said Discretions at their Pleasures for their further and better Knowledge, Instruction, Insight, Learning and Experience in the said Science or Faculty of Surgery; saving unto all Persons their Heirs and Successors all such Right, Title, Interest and demand which they or any of them might lawfully claim or have in or to any of the Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances belonging unto the said Company of Barbers and Surgeons, or any of them, at any time afore the making of this Act, in as ample Manner and Form as they or any of them had or ought to have had heretofore; any Thing in this present Act comprised to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.

III. And forasmuch as such Persons using the Mystery or Faculty of Surgery, oftentimes meddle and take unto