To the most Honourable House of Commons, commonly called, the Lower House of Parliament. The humble petition of the masters or gouernors of the mysterie and comminaltie of barbers and chirurgions of London This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A72811 of text S125105 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 16768.4). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A72811 STC 16768.4 ESTC S125105 99900372 99900372 151058 2240877866

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A72811) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 151058) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1997:30) To the most Honourable House of Commons, commonly called, the Lower House of Parliament. The humble petition of the masters or gouernors of the mysterie and comminaltie of barbers and chirurgions of London 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1624?] Against the patent obtained by the physicians to supervise the barber surgeons as well as the physicians--STC. Imprint from STC. Reproduction of original in the Guildhall Library, London, England. eng Physicians -- England -- Early works to 1800. Surgeons -- England -- Early works to 1800. Letters patent -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo To the most Honourable House of Commons, commonly called, the Lower House of Parliament. The humble petition of the masters or gouernors of the myster [no entry] 1624 1 504 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-08 Sampled and proofread 2009-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Honourable House of Commons , commonly called , The Lower House of Parliament . The humble Petition of the Masters or Gouernors of the Mysterie and Comminaltie of Barbers and Chirurgions of LONDON .

MOST humbly shewing , That the Petitioners being an Ancient Corporation , and confirmed , and their Science and Profession consisting not onely in outward practise and experience , but also in the Theorie knowledge of the causes of all manner of outward Soares , Blanes , Swellings , Impostumations , and the wounds and causes of the same , and the Symptomes that doe follow and accompanie them , and of the natures and qualities of all manner of Salues , Plaisters , Balmes , Oyntments , Baths , Poultesses , Waters , Herbs , and all other things fitting the cure of such diseases , and fit to be ministred or applied for the curing thereof . And the Petitioners haue not onely serued many yeeres , and beene trained and brought vp in the said Arte and Science , but haue by their studie , practise and experience , attained such knowledge and perfection therein as tendeth not onely to the maintenance of themselues , their wiues , children and families , but to the great good of the Kings people both by Sea and Land in their liues and limbes .

Yet so it is , That the Physitions of London ( being graue learned men , worthy of all lawfull fauour in their owne Professions ) haue of late obtained a Grant or Patent from his Maiestie , whereby they doe not onely seeke to haue a superintendencie ouer the Petitioners in their owne Profession , But also seeke to abridge the Petitioners , and to restraine them from vsing part of their Arte , which they haue studied and serued for , and haue done and doe lawfully vse , and without which many times they cannot performe their Cures , nor giue such ease and remedie to their Patients as is fit they should doe ; In which respect the said Grant will be very preiudiciall to the Petitioners , and all his Maiesties Subiests , who shall haue occasion to vse their helpe , if the same should be confirmed by Act of Parliament , as the said Physitions desire .

The humble sute of the Petitioners is , That either no Act may passe for confirmation of his said Maiesties Grant vnto the Physitions ; Or if any shall passe , that the Petitioners may be heard . And if vpon hearing , it shall seeme good to this Honorable House a Proviso or sauing may be therein contained , that the Petitioners may not be any way restrained thereby , but may in all things vse their said Profession , as they haue heretofore lawfully done , and may lawfully vse the same , And the Petitioners as by dutie bound , shall daily pray , &c.