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
Quest. 1. Whether Graduates of Oxford and Cambridge may practise in London or seven miles compass of the same without licence under the said College Seal, by virtue of the clause in the end of the Statute of 14. H. 8. and whether that clause hath not relation to the Statute of 3. H. 8. onely, or how far it doth extend?
Resp. All resolved, that no Graduate that is not admitted and licenced by the President and College of Physicians
