The histories of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and of the Apothecaries' Company : including the manuscript annals of the London College of Physicians, from 1682 to 1749 : with the editor's plan of medical reform.
- Edwards Crisp
- Date:
- 1851
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The histories of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and of the Apothecaries' Company : including the manuscript annals of the London College of Physicians, from 1682 to 1749 : with the editor's plan of medical reform. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![STATUTES AND IIVE-E.VWS. out for illegal practitioners.—“ Sept. 11, 1696, several of the statutes translated into tinglish, and several alterations made in them by the* council, and some new statutes added, and were read by Mr. Swift (the attorney), and passed.”—“ July 1, 1689, an order of the House of Lords to return the names of such members as are papist.s, reputed pa])ists, or criininals.” The criminals returned were Drs Grey and Elliot, and their criminality probabably consisted in disobeying the laus of the college. A promise to add to the bill by a committee of tlie House of Lords, that all members of the college should take the sacrament according to the Church of England. This being a surprise to the college unlooked for, the college committee are desired to take all care they can about the affair.—A petition to the law officers of the crown, January 26, 1697, from Drs. J. Clerk, Blackmorc, Bernard, Stockham, How, Gibbons, and Pitt, complaining “ that the prevailing party of the college had combined together, and in a frauduhmt and surreptitious manner made illegal statutes or bye-laws, and annexed rigorous penalties, fines, and amercements, contrary to the charter of Charles II.” I he copies of the charters and bye-laws were ordered to be laid before them, but kingly favor and aristocratic iiifluence were always in favor of the college.—October 8, 1697, The president is ordered to inform himself who is clerk of the lieutenancy, and to give him a catalogue of the names of members of the college, and to present him with a guinea.”—December 16, 1697, an address to William HI. from the president, from which we extract the following:—“ By a steady and invincible courage you have surmounted such difficulties and performed such actions, as no former age could equal, and posterity could scarce belieue. But in a more peculiar manner it becomes this our society, which owes its being to your royal predecessors, and the privileges it enjoys to your Majesty’s favor.’*’—“Dec. 22, 1701, the president (Sir J. Millington) after much solicitation, by his prudence and winning manner of address to the Earl of Iladnor and Mr Bolter, got the sura of £7,000, owing to the executors of Sir John Cutler, remitted to the sum of £2,000, which he himself, without the knowledge of the college, generously laid down, and afterwards took only this bond of the college for that sum, by tvhich means he redeemed the college^ and gave it a prospect once more of future prosperityThe doctor, it is said, should live in the annals of the college to all future generations.” “Dec. 22, 1703, The prccses natus, with six other electors, withdrew into the censors’ room to chu.se a new president instead of Sir J. Mil- lington, deceased, for the rest of the year.” “ Dr. Collins’s book in latin subscribed for by several. A physician to Christ’s Hospital chosen.” “ Eeb. 25, 1701, a petition to Parliament by the graduates of Oxford, that they might be admitted to the college without exami- nation by the censors.” This, of course, was opposed.—“ In 1702 a paper of grievances was .sent in by thirteen members of the college, complaining that their unjust laws kept many worthy practisers ot physic from the college, whereby our debts increase, without prospect of remedy, and our body diminishes, without hopes of repair, &c.” The petitioners also complain that not only the fellows but the cen.sors themselves are denied the view of the statutes and register.”—The proposal mentioned in the foregoing paper of grievanees, requiring that the president shoidd hereafter be obliged to propose any matter what- soever to the college, if requested so to do, by any ten of the fellows,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22334981_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
