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<p n="232">Prodecessors have had by Acts of Parliament Letters Patent of the King's<lb></lb>
Highness or other his most Noble Progenitors or otherwise by any lawful<lb></lb>
"Means have had at any Time afore this present Act in as large and ample<lb></lb>
"Manner and Form as they or any or either of them have had might or shall<lb></lb>
"enjoy the same this Union or Conjunction of the said Companies together<lb></lb>
"Notwithstanding and as largely to have and Enjoy the Premises as if the same<lb></lb>
"were and had been specially and particularly expressed and declared and that<lb></lb>
"All Persons of the said Company now incorporate by this present Act and their<lb></lb>
"Successors that shall be lawfully admitted and approved to occupy Surgery<lb></lb>
"after the Form of the Statute in that Case ordained and provided shall<lb></lb>
"be exempt from bearing Armour or to be put in any Watches or<lb></lb>
"Inquests and that they and their Successors shall have the Search oversight<lb></lb>
"Punishment and Connection as well of Freemen as of Foreign for such Offences<lb></lb>
"as they or any of them shall commit or do against the Good order of Barbary<lb></lb>
"or Surgery as afore this time among the said Mystery and Company of<lb></lb>
"Barbers of London hath been used and accustomed according to the Good &<lb></lb>
"Politick & Ordinances by them made & approved by the Lord High Chancellor<lb></lb>
"Treasurer and two Chief Justices of either Bench or any three of them after the<lb></lb>
"Form of the Statute in that Case after ordained and provided."</p>
<p n="233">Sect. 4th. Enacts"That no manner of Person after the said Feast<lb></lb>
"of Saint Michael the Arch Angel next coming presume to keep any shop<lb></lb>
"of Barbery or shaving within the City of London except he be a Freeman of<lb></lb>
"the same Corporation and Company"</p>
<p n="234"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Power to punish and<lb></lb>
Correct offences.</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">V. Power in Charter of<lb></lb>
Edwd. 4th. as recited<lb></lb>
in Charter of Hen. 8th.<lb></lb>
herewith left.</note>
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Sect. 5th. Enacts "That at such Times as have been heretofore <lb></lb>
"accustomed there shall be chosen 4 Masters or Governors of the same Corporation<lb></lb>
"or Company of the Four two of them shall be expert in Surgery and the or<lb></lb>
"in Barbery which four Masters and every of them shall have full Power and<lb></lb>
"Authority from Time to Time during their said office to have the oversight<lb></lb>
"Search Punishment and Correction of all such Defaults and Inconveniencies <lb></lb>
"as shall be found among the said Company using Barbery or Surgery as well<lb></lb>
"of Freemen as Foreign Aliens or Strangers within the City of London and</p>
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