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Details of SC 8/24/1165
Reference: SC 8/24/1165
Description:
Petitioners: None specified.
Addressees: King, lords spiritual and temporal and commons.
Nature of request: The petition complains about the evils brought about by unqualified physicians, and asks that in future no man should practise in physic without being either a bachelor or doctor of physic from some university, and that he should have letters attesting to this qualification, that no woman should practise in physic, and that the sheriffs should inquire into this matter in their tourns. It also asks that a warrant should be sent to the sheriffs that those who have hitherto practised without qualifications should by a certain day have presented themselves at a university to be examined in the subject.
Nature of endorsement: The answer to this petition is found on the roll of this parliament, held on 2 May, in the ninth year of the reign of King Henry, the fifth since the conquest, no. xi.
People mentioned: Physicians (doctors).
Note: As it says on the dorse, this petition was presented to the parliament held at Westminster on 2 May, 9 Henry V (1421).
Date: 1421
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 6768
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.158a-b (no.1) (full edition of original petition) & p.130b (French summary of petition on parliament roll, with response)

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