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 Medicorum Londinensis shall be printed and published, do not compound or make any medicine or medicinal receipt or prescription, or distil any oil or waters, or make other extracts that are or shall be in the said Pharmacopœia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis mentioned or named, or in any other manner or form than is or shall be directed, prescribed, and set down in the said book, and according to the weights and measures that are or shall be therein limited, except it shall be by the special direction or prescription of some learned Physician in that behalf. And His Majesty doth hereby declare, that the offenders to the contrary, shall not only incur His Majesty's just displeasure, but be proceeded against for such their contempt and offences, according to the utmost severity of law. STEPH: COTTERELL. 33 Geo. 2.—Burrow's Reports.

Rex vers. Master and Wardens of the Company of Surgeons in London.

This was a cause that stood in the Crown-Paper, upon a Return to a Mandamus directed to the Master and Wardens of the Company of of London: Reciting a Custom in the said City, "That every Freeman of the said City, using and exercising the Art, Science, or Mystery of Surgery within the said City, hath a Right, in respect thereof, to have and take, of the age of 14 years or upwards, to be educated and instructed in the said Art, Science, or Mystery, for the space of 7 years; which said Apprentices have been used and accustomed to be and in the presence or with the consent of the Master and Wardens or some of them;" And reciting that