Reasons humbly offered against passing the bill, for exempting apothecaries from serving the offices of constable, scavenger, and other parish and ward-offices. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28726 of text R220602 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 6KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B28726 Wing R523G Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.12[25] Interim Tract Supplement Guide 777.l.1.[14] ESTC R220602 ocm99885078

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 eng Pharmacists -- Early works to 1800. Parishes (Local government) -- England -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century. eebo Reasons humbly offered against passing the bill, for exempting apothecaries from serving the offices of constable, scavenger, and other parish and war n/a 1695 3 888 1 0 0 0 0 0 11.26 C The rate of 11.26 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-07 Sampled and proofread 2014-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
REASONS Humbly Offered against Passing the BILL , For Exempting Apothecaries from Serving the Offices of Constable , Scavenger , and other Parish and Ward-Offices .

THE BILL is founded upon Untrue Suggestions in the Preamble , ( Viz . ) That their Serving Parish , Ward and Leet-Offices , takes up so much of their Time , that they cannot perform their Trust in their Trade , nor Attend their Patients according to their Duty .

Whereas their Trust in their Trade is only to Make up and Compound , by themselves and Servants , such Medicines as are Prescribed by the Physician , or Directed by the Dispensatory ; And what they do more than this , is besides their Duty and Trust , 14 & 15 H. 8. cap . 5. and not allowed by Law : For by the Statute of 14 & 15 H. 8 cap . 5. and by an Ordinance of the Colledge of Physicians , the Apothecaries are prohibited to Administer , Advise or Prescribe Physick , under a Penalty . And the Statute of 32 H 8 cap . 40. doth not Intrust the Apothecaries with the Judgment of their Drugs and Wares ; 32 H. 8. cap . 40. but Ordains that Four Physicians shall be Yearly Sworn to Search and Try them , and to burn and destroy such as they shall not find good . And their Duty is , To carry and send Medicines and their Wares to their Customers and Patients , as other Tradesmen do ; which is generally done by their Servant's , with a Direction in Writing only thereunto affixed .

The Apothecaries Proceedings , in Endeavouring to Obtain this BILL , is very Unequal and ●● partial :

For by the Bill , they would be Excused their Service of Parish and Ward Offices , ( Viz . ) Churchwardens , Overseers of the Poor , Constables , Scavengers , and Quest-Men , which are of great Necessity and for Common Good , and seldom or never happen to any Man more than Once , which they may Execute either by themselves , or Deputies . For the Parish Offices , as Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor , are Executed at such Times as they themselves Appoint ; and may be , and are Executed as well by Some as by All , in Ease of each other : And the Ward-Offices , as Constable and Scavenger , They may serve either by Themselves or by a Deputy ; And such Custom has been by Rolls , See Style's Reports , fo . 362 Chief Justice , Adjudg'd good , who did provide One to Serve for him in his Turn .

And yet the Apothecaries Seek and Serve such Offices as require much greater Attendances , and must be Executed in Person , and not by a Deputy ; as Aldermens Deputies , Common-Council Men , Governors of Hospitals , Commissioners of Lieutenancy , and Sewers , and Military Offices ; and are as Busy in the Elections of Lord Mayor , Aldermen , Sheriffs , Chamberlain , Auditors of the Cities Accompts , Bridge-Masters , and other Officers : And their Care of their Patients is not so prevalent , as to Induce them to quit , or not to seek such Employments , as make either for their Honour or Interest . Which evidently shews , The Apothecaries Design is not to save their Time , but their Mony , in providing a Deputy ; and to put the Trouble and Charge upon their poor Neighbours , that they may reap the Benefit of their Neighbors Trouble and Expence .

The Apothecaries have not the same Reason to be Excus'd from Parish and Ward-Offices , as the Physicians have : For that the Physicians must Personaly Attend their Patients , and Exercise their Faculty ; and cannot do it by Others , as the Apothecaries may , and do .

The Fines pretended to be taken for Excuse , are never Demanded of any ; but sometimes at the Desire of such Persons as are Excused . Fines are taken and applied to the Publick Uses of their respective Wards and Parishes , and not otherwise : And are expresly forbid by Common-Council , to be applied to Feasting , or any such Uses , as the Apothecaries in their CASE pretend .

The Exemption desired by this BILL , Extends to all other Towns and Corporations in England , where the Apothecaries that would be Excused from Offices are ( in proportion to Others , who are liable to Serve these Offices ) as Numerous as they are in London .

☞ Note , The Exemptions from Parish and Ward-Offices within the City of London , are such and so many already , that there is rather need of a Law to oblige Others to Serve these Offices either in Person or by Deputy , for the Common Good , ( especially at this Time , when Taxes and Offices are so many ) rather than Excuse more ; Which tends to the great Oppression of the Subject but more particularly of the Meaner sort .

REASONS Against The Apothecaries BILL .