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 Terms of Law, to all Intents and Purposes: And it was thereby also enacted, That all Persons of the said Company incorporated by the said Act, and their Successors, that should be lawfully admitted and approved to occupy Surgery after the Form of the Statute in that case made and provided, should be exempt from bearing of Armour, or to be put in any Watches or Inquests; and that they and their Successors, should have the Search, Oversight, Punishment and Correction, as well of Freemen as of Foreign, for such Offences as they or any of them, should commit against the good Order of Barbery and Surgery, as theretofore among the said Company of Barbers of London had been used and accustomed, according to the Rules and Ordinances by them made and approved of, pursuant to the Statute in that Behalf ordained and provided: And it was thereby further enacted, That no Person within the City of London, Suburbs of the same, and one Mile Compass of the said City, using any Barbery or Shaving, should occupy any Surgery, letting of Blood, or any other Thing belonging to Surgery, except Drawing of Teeth only: and that whosoever should use the Mystery or Craft of Surgery within the Circuit aforesaid, should, as long as he should use the said Mystery or Craft, in no wise occupy or exercise the Feat or Craft of Barbery or Shaving: And whereas in and by certain Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England, bearing Date the fifteenth Day of August in the fifth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King Charles the First, reciting the said Act of Parliament of the thirty-second Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth; and that the Men of the same Societies, as well from the Time of their said Union and Incorporation as before, respectively had, held, used and enjoyed divers Liberties, Franchises, Immunities, Customs and Preheminences, within the City of London, the Suburbs and Liberties thereof, and certain Villages, and Places thereto adjacent, as well on account of the said Act of Parliament, and other Acts of Parliament, as by