Et denique volumus & intentionem nostram esse declaramus quod Chirurgi experti & approbati eorum artem facultatem exercere possint omnesque & singuli eorum practica sibi propria uti & frui valeant quantum ad compositionem & applicationem medicamentor’ externor’ solumodo pertinet & spectat. Ita tamen ut ea medicamenta minime vendant aut venditioni aliis exponant secundum morem vulgarem Pharmacopol’ Civitat’ nostre London Eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut de certitudine premissor’ sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu per aliquem Progenitor’ vel Antecessor’ nostror’ prefat’ Magistro Custod’ & Societati myster’ Pharmacopol’ Civitat’ London predict’ ante hec tempore fact’ in presentibus minime fact’ exist’ seu aliquo Statuto Actu Ordinatione Provisione Proclamatione sive Restrictione in contrarium inde antehac habit’ fact’ edit’ ordinat’ seu provis’ aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstant’. In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri facimus Patentes. Teste meipso apud Westm’ Tricessimo die Maii Anno Regni Nostri Anglie Franc’ & Hibernie tertio decimo & Scocie quadragesimo octavo.
NOTE. The e for æ in quæ &^c and the c for t in etiam &^c are so printed in our original.
Royal Letter to the College of Physicians.
Whereas we have been informed That there are several pretended Physicians & Doctors graduated in the Universitys beyond the Seas who by indirect means endeavour to be received into that our Royal Colledge as Honorary Fellows, without incorporation into either of our Universities or previous Examination & approbation, according as it is expressly required by y^e Statutes to y^e great prejudice of y^e ffellows of or said Colledge & their Successors & of the Priveledges & immunityes granted to them by or Royal predicessors & orself. Wee having taken the same into or Royal Consideration have thought fit _to signifye or pleasure_ to you, & doe accordingly _direct you_ not to admit any person whatever as a Fellowe of the Society & to enjoy y^e priviledges of or s^d Colledge that hath not had his Education in either of or Universityes of Oxford or Cambridge kept his Act for D^r in Physick & don his Exercises accordingly, or that is not encorporated & licenced there haveing first taken the Oathes of Allegiance & Supremacy, & haveing been by you afterward examined & approved of according to the Statutes. And to the Intent this or pleasure may be the better observed wee doe likewise _hereby require you_ to cause these or Letters to be entered upon the Registe of or said Colledge & so wee bid you ffarewell, Given at or Court at Whitehall Febr. 12^{ th} 1674 in the 26^{ th} year of or Reighn.