Prodecessors have had by Acts of Parliament Letters Patent of the King's
Highness or other his most Noble Progenitors or otherwise by any lawful
"Means have had at any Time afore this present Act in as large and ample
"Manner and Form as they or any or either of them have had might or shall
"enjoy the same this Union or Conjunction of the said Companies together
"Notwithstanding and as largely to have and Enjoy the Premises as if the same
"were and had been specially and particularly expressed and declared and that
"All Persons of the said Company now incorporate by this present Act and their
"Successors that shall be lawfully admitted and approved to occupy Surgery
"after the Form of the Statute in that Case ordained and provided shall
"be exempt from bearing Armour or to be put in any Watches or
"Inquests and that they and their Successors shall have the Search oversight
"Punishment and Connection as well of Freemen as of Foreign for such Offences
"as they or any of them shall commit or do against the Good order of Barbary
"or Surgery as afore this time among the said Mystery and Company of
"Barbers of London hath been used and accustomed according to the Good &
"Politick & Ordinances by them made & approved by the Lord High Chancellor
"Treasurer and two Chief Justices of either Bench or any three of them after the
"Form of the Statute in that Case after ordained and provided."

Sect. 4th. Enacts"That no manner of Person after the said Feast
"of Saint Michael the Arch Angel next coming presume to keep any shop
"of Barbery or shaving within the City of London except he be a Freeman of
"the same Corporation and Company"

Power to punish and
Correct offences.

V. Power in Charter of
Edwd. 4th. as recited
in Charter of Hen. 8th.
herewith left.

Sect. 5th. Enacts "That at such Times as have been heretofore
"accustomed there shall be chosen 4 Masters or Governors of the same Corporation
"or Company of the Four two of them shall be expert in Surgery and the or
"in Barbery which four Masters and every of them shall have full Power and
"Authority from Time to Time during their said office to have the oversight
"Search Punishment and Correction of all such Defaults and Inconveniencies
"as shall be found among the said Company using Barbery or Surgery as well
"of Freemen as Foreign Aliens or Strangers within the City of London and