purchase Lands, &c. Whereby they have Authority to search all the shops of Apothecaries in and about London, to see if their Drugs and Compositions are whole∣some and well made; whereby they are freed from all troublesome Offices, as to serve upon Juries, to be Constable, to keep watch and ward, to bear Arms, or provide Armes or Ammunition, &c. any Member of that Colledge may practice Surgery if he please not onely in London, but in any part of England.
This Society had antiently a Colledge in Knight-Rider-Street, the Gift of Doctor Linacre, Physitian to King Henry the VIII. since which, a House and Ground was purchased by the Society of Physitians, at the end of Amen street, whereon the ever famous Dr. Harvey, Anno 1652. did erect at his own proper charge a Magnificent Structure, both for a Library and a Pub∣lick Hall for the meeting of the several Members of this Society, endowed the same with his whole Inheritance, which he resigned up, while he was yet living and in Health, part of which he assigned for an Anniversary Harangue, to commemorate all their Benefactors, to exhort others to follow their good Examples, and to pro∣vide a plentiful Dinner for the worthy Company.
Anno 1666. This goodly Edifice could not escape the Fury of that dreadful Fire, and that ground being but a Lease, the pre∣sent Fellows of this Colledge have purcha∣sed