contained and specified, should be approved, granted, ratified, and confirmed, &c. in tam amplo & largo modo prout poterit acceptari, cogitari, et construi per easdem literas patentes. And further it was enacted, that the said six persons named in the said letters patent, as principal of the said college, should elect to them two other of the said college, who should be named electi, and that the said elects should chose one of them to be president, as by the said act appears: and further, they pleaded the act of [1]1 Mariæ, by which it is enacted, Quod quædam concessio, &c. And further it was enacted, "That whensoever the president of the college, or commonalty of the faculty of physic at London for the time being, or such as the said president and college shall yearly, according to the tenor and meaning of the said act, authorize to search, examine, correct, and punish all offenders and transgressors in the said faculty, &c. shall send or commit any such offender or offenders for his or their offence or disobedience, contrary to any article or clause contained in the said grant or act, to any ward, gaol, or prison, &c." (see p. 26.) And further pleaded, that the said Thomas Bonham, 10 April, 1606, within London, against the form of the said letters patent, and the said acts, exercebat artem medicinæ, non admissus per literas præd' presidentis & collegii sigillo eorum communi sigillat' ubi revera præd' Tho. Bonham fuit minus sufficiens ad artem medicinæ exercend'. By force of which, the said Thomas Bonham, 30 Aprilis 1606, was summoned in London by the censors or governors of the college, ad comparend' coram præsiden' & censor' sive gubernatorib' collegii præd' at the college, &c. the 14th day of April next following, super præmissis examinand'. At which day the said Tho. Bonham came before the president and censors, and was examined by the censors de scientiâ suâ in facultate suâ in medicin' admi-*
- ↑ 1 Mar. c. 9. Rastal's Physicians 7. Lit. Rep. 169, 172, 173, 212, 213, 215, 248, 249, 350, 351. 1 Jones 263. Cr. Car. 257. Cr. Jac. 121. 4 Inst. 251. 2 Brownl. 257, 262, 265, 266.
