Physicians Act 1523
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1523 c. 5 |
| Year | 1523 |
(14 & 15 Hen. 8) C A P. V.
'IN the most humble wise shew unto our Highness, your true and faithful Subjects and liege Men,John Chambre, Thomas Linacre, Ferdinandus de Victoria , your Physicians, and Nicholas Halsewell, John Frances , and Robert Yaxley , and all other Men of the same Faculty within the City of London , and seven Miles about, that where your Highness(by your most gracious Letters Patents, bearing Date atWestminster the xiii. Day of September , in the Tenth Year of your most noble Reign) for the Common Wealth of this your Realm, in due exercising and practising of the Faculty of Physick, and the good Ministration of Medicines to be had, hath incorporate and made of us, and of our Company aforesaid, one Body and perpetual Commonaltyor Fellowship of the Faculty of Physick, and to have perpetual Succession and common Seal, and to choose yearly a President of the same Fellowship and Commonalty, to oversee, rule, and govern the said Fellowship and Commonalty, and all Men of the said Faculty, with divers other Liberties and Privileges by your Highness to us granted for the Common Wealth of this your Realm, as in your said most gracious Letters Patents more at large is specified and contained, the Tenour whereof followeth in these Words:
‘(2)HENRICUS Dei gratia Rex Angli & Franci, & Dominus Hiberni, omnibus ad quos prsentes liter pervenerint salutem. Cum regii officii nostri munus arbitremur ditionis nostr hominum foelicitati omni ratione consulere; (3) id autem vel imprimis fore, si improborum conatibus tempestive occurramus, apprime necessarium duximus improborum quoque hominum, qui medicinam magis avariti su causa, quam ullius bon conscienti fiducia, profitebuntur, unde rudi & credul plebi plurima incommoda oriantur, audaciam compescere: (4) Itaque partim bene institutarum civitatum in Italia, & aliis multis nationibus, exemplum imitati, partim gravium virorum doctorum Joannis Chambre, Thom Linacre, Ferdinandi de Victoria, medicorum nostrorum, Nicholai Halsewel, Joannis Francisci, & Rob. Yaxley, medicorum, ac prcipue reverendissimi in Christo patris, ac domini, dom. Thom tituli Sanct Cecili trans Tiberim sacrosanct Roman ecclesi presbyteri cardinalis, Eboracensis archiepiscopi, & regni nostri Angli cancellarii clarissimi, precibus inclinati, collegium perpetuum doctorum & gravium virorum, qui medicinam in urbe nostra Londino & suburbiis, intraque septem millia passuum ab ea urbe quaqua versus publice exerceant, institui volumus atque imperamus. (5) Quibus tum sui honoris, tum public utilitatis nomine, cur (ut speramus) erit, malitiosorum quorum meminimus inscientiam temeritatemque, tam exemplo gravitateque suis deterrere, quam per leges nostras nuper editas, ac per constitutiones per idem collegium condendas, punire. (6) Qu quo facilius rite peragi possint, memoratis doctoribus Joan. Chambre, Thom...
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