John Stearne, M. & J. U. D. : an address delivered in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland on the three hundredth anniversary of his birth, November 26, 1924.

  • Percy Kirkpatrick
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1925
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Credit: John Stearne, M. & J. U. D. : an address delivered in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland on the three hundredth anniversary of his birth, November 26, 1924. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TRANSLATION OF THE CHARTER OF CHARLES II, 1667. Charles the Second, by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. To all unto whom Our present letters shall come. Greeting. Whereas We consider it a duty of Our Kingly Office by every means to consult the welfare of those under Our Sovereignty: And whereas to this end it is^ specially necessary that Professors untrained in the Art of Medicine should be suppressed, and that those skilled in this Art should be favoured and encouraged: And whereas further it is Our Will that a perpetual College of grave and learned men be established, to make a public practice of Medicine in Our City of Dublin in Our said Kingdom of Ireland and within the space of seven miles from the said City in all directions. Know, therefo're, that We, of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, by and with the advice and consent of Our right-trusty and Our right-well-beloved Cousin and Councillor James, Duke of Ormond, Our Lieutenant-General and General Governor O'f Our said Kingdom of Ireland, and according to the tenor and effect of certain letters of Ours signed with Our Own Hand and under Our Own Seal, bearing date at Our Court of Whitehall, the twenty-eighth day of June, in the seventeenth year of Our Reign, and now inrolled in the Rolls of Our Court of Chancery of Our said Kingdom of Ireland. We do grant, concede, establish and ordain that John Stearne, Doctor of Medicine, William Petty, Knight, Edward Dynham, Abraham Yarner, Joseph Waterhouse, William Currer, Robert Waller, Thomas Margetson, Nathaniel Henshaw, Samuel Sciclamore, Jeremiah Hall, Charles Willoughby, John Unmusique, and John Cusacke, all Doctors of Medicine, henceforth may be, and by virtue of these presents shall be, in deed fact and name, one Body Corporate and Politic and a perpetual Community or perpetual College by the name of the President and Fellows of the College of Physicians in Dublin, and them by the name of the President and Fellows of the College of Physicians in Dublin We raise, make, and ordain, and by these Presents We create into one Body corporate and politic in deed fact and name, actually and to the full, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors: And that under this name they may have a perpetual succession and that they may and shall be, for all future time, persons with full legal powers, apart from any licence to be obtained in this respect from Us Our Heirs and Successors, to have acquire receive and hold Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of what kind soever not exceeding the annual value of one hundred pounds sterling per annum. And further, of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, by and with the advice and consent aforesaid. We do make, appoint, and ordain the aforesaid John Stearne first and present President of the aforesaid College or Community for the duty of overseeing examining and governing the College or Community aforesaid, and all those of the same faculty who are members of the aforesaid College, and their affairs. We ordain that he remain in that office for the duration of his natural life: Further We ordain and declare that after the death of the aforesaid John Stearne the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity near Dublin for the time
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