firmed: And by virtue of the said Act of Parliament and Letters Patents aforesaid and one other Act of Parliament made in the first year of the Raigne of our late Soveraigne Lady Queen Mary instituled An Act touching the Corporation of Physicians in London, did cause to be brought before us the sixth day of this instant September at our Collage house in Pater noster Rowe in London one Christofer Barton; and we have examined the said Christofer Barton, and upon his examination and other due proofs we have found that the said Christofer Barton hath unskilfully practised the Art of Physick within the City of London and Precinct aforesaid upon the bodies of Richard Ballady of Aldermary Parish London, Michael Knight of St. Buttolphs Parish Aldgate London and the child of one Jane Brigge and some others in the month of January in the year 1638, contrary to the Laws in that behalf made and provided; whereupon we have imposed upon the said Christofer Barton a fine of 20l. for his evil practice in Physick aforesaid; and we have also for the same cause sent you the body of the said Christofer Barton, Willing and requiring you in the King's Majesties name to receive and keep him in safe custody as Prisoner, there to remain at his own costs and charges without bail or mainprize untill he shall be discharged of the said imprisonment by the President of the said Collage, and by such persons as by the said Collage shall be thereunto authorised according to the Statute in that behalf made, And this our warrant shall be your discharge. Given at the said Collage the eleventh day of September in the 16th year of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles.
Otwell Meverell,
Law. Wright,
Edmund Smith,
William Goddard.
To the Keeper of Woodstreet Compter,
London or his Deputy.
Note. This Christopher Barton, like James Leverett a Gardener (whose case and the reference of it by the Court of Star Chamber to the College, are recited in Goodall p. 447) and the more celebrated Valentine Greatrex, was one of those Empirics, half enthusiasts and half imposters, who pretended to perform cures by touching or stroaking.
