[..] Upon an attentive Perusal of the Charter and Act's of Parliamt recited
[..] Case the following Statements and Observations thereon seem very
material to be attended to and in my Opinion decisive of this Question

Edward the fourth by his Charter of this Date granted to the
Master or Rulers and Community of Barbers that they nor their Successors
should thereafter be appointed on any Assizes Juries Inquests Inquisitions
Attaints or other Recognizances within the City and Suburbs

And by the 32d: of Henry the Eighth the Barbers and Surgeons are
made one Company and that Act says they shall peaceably and quietly
have and enjoy all and singular Benefits Grants Liberties Priviledges
Franchises & Free Customs and should be exempt from bearing of Armour

By the 18th. of Geo: the 2d: which disunites the Surgeons from the
Barbers and makes them two seperate and distinct Companies It is inter
alia Enacted That the said Company of Surgeons made established &
incorporated by this Act and their Successors and all Persons who shall
be Freemen of the same Company or Corporation shall and may from time
to time and at all times for ever hereafter have hold and enjoy all and
every such and the same Liberties Priviledges Franchises Powers & Authorities
as the Members of the said united Company or Corporation being Freemen
of the said Company and admitted and approved Surgeons within the
Rules of the said Company and Corporation could or might respectively
have had held and enjoyed by Virtue of the said recited Act of Union
or Incorporation and the said Letters Patent of his said late Majesty
King Charles the first respively and other the Royal Grants Charters &
Patents therein mentioned and referred to so far as the same relate
to the Art or Science of Surgery only and not otherwise and that in
as full ample and beneficial manner to all intents and purposes
as if the same had in and by this present Act been expressly repeated
and re-enacted and that they and all such who already have been
or hereafter shall be examined and approved pursuant to the Rules
of the said Company shall be intitled to practise freely & without
restraint the Act and Science of Surgery throughout all and every
his Majesty's Dominions any Law or Custom to the contrary in any
wise notwithstanding

And in the 10th. Section is the following special Clause

That all & every Person and Persons being Freemen of the said
Company or Corporation of Surgeons established and incorporated by this Act