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To Doctor Baldwin Hamey Esquire, and of the Physicians Col∣ledge London.
SIR,
THe Physicians of the Princes Body, Constantine in old time honoured with the Title of Earles; whereof those that had been Professors of Law, and other Sci∣ences twenty years together, deserved by the Law to be made Earles, by the twelfth Book of the Code: and though now they are without that Dignity, yet Divinity, Law and Phy∣sick, are as it were the three Graces of Humane life; and are set in Prima cera, in the first place of the Table; and to ho∣nour the Physician is a debt. Precedency at first proceeding from priority of Birth, among Men that were of equal Digni∣ty; and afterward Priority of Choise, or Creation, among men of the same dignity, gave the Precedence: as the several Emi∣nency, or Honour in secular Offices was esteemed by the nature of the Imployment, by the long or short Robe, by the Usefulness of them to the State, and of the Power joyned with them. Of how much use the Physician is, is not at all doubted; and of what honour may appear by that Instrument of Doctorship of Philosophy and Physick, produced by the learned Selden, &c. wherein, beside all the Priviledges and Honours due to a Doctor of Philosophy, and Physick, it is also granted, Sibique