V. And further, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, for the better Execution of the Search and view of Poticary Wares, Drugs and Compositions, according to the Tenor of a Statute made in the xxxii Year of the Reign of the said late King _Henry_ the Eighth, That it shall be lawful for the Wardens of the Grocers, or one of them, to go with the said Physicians in their View and Search, that if the said Warden or Wardens do refuse his or their coming thereunto, forthwith and immediately, when the said President or four of his College elect, as aforesaid, do call upon him or them, that then the said Physicians may and shall execute that Search and View, and the due Punishment of the Poticaries for any their evil and faulty Stuff, according to the Statute last before mentioned, without the Assistance of any of the said Wardens; any Clause in the aforenamed Statute to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. And every such Person or Persons as will or shall resist such Search, shall forfeit for every such resistance Ten Pound; the same Penalty to be recovered in Form aforesaid, without any of the delays aforesaid, to be had in suit thereof.
VI. And further, be it enacted, That all Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables, and other Ministers and Officers, within the City and Precincts above written, upon Request to them made, shall help and assist the President of the said College, and all Persons by them from time to time authorised for the due Execution of the said Acts or Statutes, upon Pain for not giving of such Aid, Help, and Assistance, to run in Contempt of the Queen’s Majesty, her Heirs and Successors.
An Act for exempting Apothecaries from serving the Offices of Constable, Scavenger, and other Parish and Ward Offices, and from serving upon Juries.
‘Whereas the Act of the Apothecary is of great and general Use and Benefit, by reason of their constant and necessary Assistance of his Majesty’s Subjects, which should oblige them solely to attend the Duty of their Professions; yet by reason that they are compelled to serve several Parish, Ward, and Leet Offices, in the Places where they live, and are frequently summoned to serve on Juries and Inquests, which take up great Part of their Time, they cannot perform the Trusts reposed in them as they ought, nor attend the Sick with such Diligence as is required: And whereas, King _JAMES_ the First, by His Letters Patents under the Great Seal of _England_, did incorporate the Apothecaries exercising that Art within _London_, and seven Miles Compass, by the Name of _The Master, Wardens, and Society of the Art and Mystery of the Apothecaries of the City of London_:’