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<HEAD><HI>REASONS</HI> Humbly Offered again&s;t Pa&s;&s;ing the <HI>BILL,</HI> For Exempting <HI>Apothecaries</HI> from Serving the Offices of <HI>Con&s;table, Scavenger,</HI> and other Pari&s;h and Ward-Offices.</HEAD>
<P> <MILESTONE N="I"> THE <HI>BILL</HI> is founded upon Untrue Sugge&s;tions in the Preamble, <HI>(Viz.) That their Serving Pari&s;h, Ward and Leet-Offices, takes up &s;o much of their Time, that they cannot perform their Tru&s;t in their Trade, nor Attend their Patients according to their Duty.</HI></P>
<P>Whereas their Tru&s;t in their Trade is only to Make up and Compound, by them&s;elves and Servants, &s;uch Medicines as are Pre&s;cribed by the <HI>Phy&s;ician,</HI> or Directed by the <HI>Di&s;pen&s;atory;</HI> And what they do more than this, is be&s;ides their Duty and Tru&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">14 <HI>&amp;</HI> 15 <HI>H.</HI> 8. <HI>cap.</HI> 5.</NOTE> and not allowed by Law: For by the Statute of 14 <HI>&amp;</HI> 15 <HI>H.</HI> 8 <HI>cap.</HI> 5. and by an Ordinance of the <HI>Colledge of Phy&s;icians,</HI> the <HI>Apothecaries</HI> are prohibited to Admini&s;ter, Advi&s;e or Pre&s;cribe <HI>Phy&s;ick,</HI> under a Penalty. And the Statute of 32 <HI>H</HI> 8 <HI>cap.</HI> 40. doth not Intru&s;t the <HI>Apothecaries</HI> with the Judgment of their Drugs and Wares;<NOTE PLACE="marg">32 <HI>H.</HI> 8. <HI>cap.</HI> 40.</NOTE> but Ordains that <HI>Four Phy&s;icians</HI> &s;hall be Yearly Sworn to Search and Try them, and to burn and de&s;troy &s;uch as they &s;hall not find good. And their Duty is, To carry and &s;end Medicines and their Wares to their <HI>Cu&s;tomers</HI> and <HI>Patients,</HI> as other Trade&s;men do; which is generally done by their <HI>Servant's,</HI> with a Direction in Writing only thereunto affixed.</P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="II"> The <HI>Apothecaries</HI> Proceedings, in Endeavouring to Obtain this <HI>BILL,</HI> is very Unequal and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> partial:</P>
<P>For by the <HI>Bill,</HI> they would be Excu&s;ed their Service of Pari&s;h and Ward Offices, <HI>(Viz.) Churchwardens, Over&s;eers of the Poor, Con&s;tables, Scavengers,</HI> and <HI>Que&s;t-Men,</HI> which are of great Nece&s;&s;ity and for Common Good, and &s;eldom or never happen to any Man more than Once, which they may Execute either by them&s;elves, or Deputies. For the Pari&s;h Offices, as <HI>Churchwardens</HI> and <HI>Over&s;eers of the Poor,</HI> are Executed at &s;uch Times as they them&s;elves Appoint; and may be, and are Executed as well by <HI>Some</HI> as by <HI>All,</HI> in Ea&s;e of each other: And the Ward-Offices, as <HI>Con&s;table</HI> and <HI>Scavenger,</HI> They may &s;erve either by <HI>Them&s;elves</HI> or by a <HI>Deputy;</HI> And &s;uch Cu&s;tom has been by <HI>Rolls,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">See <HI>Style</HI>'s Reports, fo. 362</NOTE> Chief Ju&s;tice, Adjudg'd good, who did provide One to <HI>Serve for him in his Turn.</HI></P>
<P>And yet the <HI>Apothecaries</HI> Seek and Serve &s;uch Offices as require much greater Attendances, and mu&s;t be Executed <HI>in Per&s;on,</HI> and not by a <HI>Deputy;</HI> as <HI>Aldermens Deputies, Common-Council Men, Governors of Ho&s;pitals, Commi&s;&s;ioners of Lieutenancy,</HI> and <HI>Sewers,</HI> and <HI>Military Offices;</HI> and are as Bu&s;y in the Elections of <HI>Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Chamberlain, Auditors of the Cities Accompts, Bridge-Ma&s;ters,</HI> and other Officers: And their Care of their <HI>Patients</HI> is not &s;o prevalent, as to Induce them to <HI>quit,</HI> or not to <HI>&s;eek</HI> &s;uch Employments, as make either for their <HI>Honour</HI> or <HI>Intere&s;t.</HI> Which evidently &s;hews, The <HI>Apothecaries</HI> De&s;ign is not to &s;ave their <HI>Time,</HI> but their <HI>Mony,</HI> in providing a <HI>Deputy;</HI> and to put the <HI>Trouble</HI> and <HI>Charge</HI> upon their poor Neighbours, that they may reap the Benefit of their Neighbors <HI>Trouble</HI> and <HI>Expence.</HI></P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="III"> The <HI>Apothecaries</HI> have not the &s;ame Rea&s;on to be Excus'd from Pari&s;h and Ward-Offices, as the <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> have: For that the <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> mu&s;t <HI>Per&s;onaly Attend their Patients,</HI> and <HI>Exerci&s;e their Faculty;</HI> and cannot do it by <HI>Others,</HI> as the <HI>Apothecaries</HI> may, and do.</P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="IV"> The <HI>Fines</HI> pretended to be taken for Excu&s;e, are never Demanded of any; but &s;ometimes at the De&s;ire of <HI>&s;uch Per&s;ons</HI> as are Excu&s;ed. <HI>Fines</HI> are taken and applied to the Publick U&s;es of their re&s;pective <HI>Wards</HI> and <HI>Pari&s;hes,</HI> and not otherwi&s;e: And are expre&s;ly forbid by <HI>Common-Council,</HI> to be applied to <HI>Fea&s;ting,</HI> or any &s;uch U&s;es, as the <HI>Apothecaries</HI> in their <HI>CASE</HI> pretend.</P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="V"> The <HI>Exemption</HI> de&s;ired by this <HI>BILL,</HI> Extends to all other <HI>Towns</HI> and <HI>Corporations</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> where the <HI>Apothecaries</HI> that would be Excu&s;ed from <HI>Offices</HI> are (in proportion to Others, who are liable to <HI>Serve the&s;e Offices</HI>) as Numerous as they are in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>&rindx; <MILESTONE N="VI"> <HI>Note,</HI> The Exemptions from <HI>Pari&s;h</HI> and <HI>Ward-Offices</HI> within the City of <HI>London,</HI> are &s;uch and &s;o many already, that there is rather need of a Law to oblige <HI>Others</HI> to Serve the&s;e <HI>Offices</HI> either in <HI>Per&s;on</HI> or by <HI>Deputy,</HI> for the Common Good, (e&s;pecially at this Time, when <HI>Taxes</HI> and <HI>Offices</HI> are &s;o many) rather than Excu&s;e <HI>more;</HI> Which tends to the great Oppre&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Subject</HI> but more particularly of the <HI>Meaner &s;ort.</HI></P>
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<P>REASONS Again&s;t The <HI>Apothecaries</HI> BILL.</P>
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