JAMES II. Letters Patent under the Great Seal.

Confirmation of the Charters of Henry VIII, James I, & Charles II, etc.

WE HAVE named Constituted and appointed ... Sir Thomas Witherley Our Physitian Sir Geo Ent Sir Charles Scarburgh Our Chief Phisitian Dr.Walter Charlton Dr Geo Rogers Dr Thomas Burwell Dr John Betts Dr Peter Barwick Dr Samuel Collins Dr Nathaniel Hodges Sir Thomas Millington Dr John Lawson Dr Humphrey Brooke Dr John Bidgood Dr Nicholas Stanley Dr Edmund Dickenson Phisitian to our houshold Dr John Attfeild Dr Henry Pamar Dr Wm Walgrave Physitian to Our dearest Consort the Queen Dr John Downes Dr Charles Conquest Dr Robert Peirce Dr Robert Brady our Physitian Dr William Stokeham Dr Richard Griffith Dr Ferdinando Mendez Phisitian to our dearest Sister Katherine the Queen Dowager Dr Walter Needham Dr Richard Lower Dr Edward Browns Dr William Johnson Dr Phineas Fowke Dr Edward Hulse Dr Samuel Morrice Dr Edward Baynard Dr Charles Goodall Sir John Gourden Dr Theodore Colladon Dr Andrew Panch Dr Thomas Alvey Dr Edmond King Dr Wm Johnson Dr Walter Harris Dr Richard Blackborne Dr William Briggs Dr Charles Frazier Our Phisitian Dr Francis Bernard Dr Robert Grey Dr Richard Smith Dr Frederick Slare Dr William Dawkins Dr George How Dr Christopher Love Morley Dr Lancelot Harrison Dr Walter Mills Dr Edward Tyson Dr Richard Robinson Dr Richard Carre Dr John Elliott Dr William Dawes Dr Joshua Leffeure Dr Thomas Walsh Dr Richard Darnelley Dr Thomas Gill Dr Christian Harrell Dr Robert Pitt Dr John Harrison Dr John Bateman Dr John Hungerford Dr John Ratcliffe Dr Edward Betts Dr Thomas Palmer Dr Hans Sloane Dr Richard Feild Dr Martin Lister Dr Cornelius Callow Dr Richard Blackmore Dr Tancred Robinson and Dr Simon Welman to be the first and p'sent Fellowes ... and the said Sir Thomas Witherley the first and p'sent President and the said Dr George Rogers the first and p'sent Vicepresident and the said Sir George Ent Sir Charles Scarburh Dr Walter Charleton Dr George Rogers Dr Thomas Burwell Dr John Betts Dr Peter Barwick Dr Samuell Collins Dr Nathaniel Hodges Sir Thomas Millington Dr John Lawson and Dr Humphrey Brooke the first and p'sent Elects And the said Dr John Betts Dr Edward Browne Dr William Briggs and Dr William Dawkins the ffirst and p'sent Censors And the said Sir Thomas Millington ffirst and p'sent Treasurer and the said Dr Burwell the first and p'sent Register of the same Colledge/AND OUR will and pleasure is ... that the President Vicepresident Elects Fellows Treasurer Register and Censors shall not exceed in the whole the number of fourscore at any one time ... (etc.)

AND WEE do further ... give and grant unto the said President and Censors of the said Colledge ... full and sole Power Privilege liberty and authority of licenceing all and singuler Bookes Pamphletts Papers Writings Significacons and intimacons whatsoever in any wise relating to Phisick or Chirurgery or the Practice thereof (etc.)

PROVIDED alwaies neverthelesse and our will and pleasure is and wee do hereby declare Our Royal intent and meaning to bee that itt shall and may bee lawfull to and for us our heires and successors at any time and at all times hereafter by any order or Orders of Councell of us our heires or Successors to amove or displace the President or any of the Fellows Elects Censors or other Officers or members of the said Colledge and Corporacon ... when and as often as it shall seeme meete to us (etc.)

By Writt of Privy Seale PIGOTT With endorsement

Seal: Line engraving of James II in initial capital with royal arms and ornaments.

Endorsed on back as rolled:-

"Phisitians of London

CHR. PIGOTT"