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An Act touching the Corporation of Physicians in London.

'Whereas in the Parliament holden at London, the fifteenth Day of April, in the fourteenth year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord, King Henry the Eighth, and from thence adjourned to Westminster, the last day of July, in the fifteenth year of the Reign of the same king, and there holden, it was enacted, That a certain Grant of Letters Patents of Incorporation, made and granted by our said late king to the Physicians of London, and all Clauses and Articles contained in the same Grant, should be approved, granted, ratified and confirmed by the same Parliament.'

For the consideration thereof, be it enacted, by the Authority of this present Parliament, That the said Statute or Act of Parliament, with every Article and Clause therein contained, shall from henceforth stand and continue in full Strength, Force and Effect; any Act, Statute, Law, Custom, or any other thing made had or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

III. And for the better Reformation of divers Enormities happening to the Commonwealth, by the evil using and undue Administration of Physick, and for the enlarging of further Articles for the better Execution of the things contained in the said Grant enacted;

IV. Be it therefore now enacted, That whensoever the President of the College, or Communalty of the Faculty of Physick of London, for the time being, or such as the said President and College shall yearly, according to the Tenor and Meaning of the said Act, authorise to search, examine, correct and punish all Offenders and Transgressors in the said Faculty, within the same City and Precinct in the aid Act expressed, shall send or commit any such