To our trusty and well beloved the Lord Mayor of our City of _London_ for the time being and to the Deputy Lieutenants and Commissioners of the Militia of London and Westminster that now are and hereafter shall be, and to all other Officers and Ministers whom it may concern.
Whereas in conformity to several Grants and Charters made by our Royal Progenitors Kings of _England_ unto the College of Physicians in our City of _London_, We have been pleased of our especial Grace and favour to confirm all their ancient Privileges and humanities (with the addition of some further Powers and Clauses for the regulation of that faculty) by our Letters Patent bearing date the 26th of March in the 15th year of our Reign; Wherein amongst other things it is expresly provided and by us granted that every Physician who is or shall be a Member of the said College be free and exempt and discharged of and from all Watch and Ward, and of and from bearing and providing Arms within our Cities of _London_ and _Westminster_ or of either of them or within 7 miles compass thereof: We have thought fit hereby to acquaint you therewith and with our pleasure thereupon; Willing and Requiring you in your several Places and Stations to give effectual orders from time to time that the said exemption from Watch and Ward and from bearing and providing Arms be now and hereafter punctually observed in favour of the Members of the said College within the limits aforesaid; And that you suffer them not to be any wise molested on that behalf And for so doing this shall be your Warrant. Given at our Court at _Whitehall_ the 28th day of June 1665 in the seventeenth year of our Reign.
By his Majestie’s Command WILLIAM MORICE.
College Questions resolved by the Lord Chancellor and Judges in the fifth of King _James_ his Reign An. Dom. 1607
The Kings most Excellent Majesty having directed his Letters to the Right honourable Thomas Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor of England, and to Sir John Popham Knight, Lord Chief Justice of England and one of his Highnesses most honourable Privy Council, They the said Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice by virtue of the same Letters called unto them Sir Thomas Fleminge Knight, then Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty’s Court of Exchequer, Sir Thomas Walmesley & Sir Peter Warburton, Knights, two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, and Sir David Williams and Sir Laurence Tanfield Knights two of his Majesties Justices of the King’s Bench, and after due consideration had both of the Charter of King Henry the eighth made unto the said President and College of Physicians in the tenth year of his Reign, and several Acts of Parliament thereof made, one in the fourteenth year of the same King, and the other in the first year of Queen Mary, for the ordering and governing of the said College and of all the Practisers in _London_ and seven miles compass, did on the first of May 1607 at the house of the said Lord Chancellor called _York_ House, resolve the several questions hereafter mentioned, as is expressed under every Question.