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Charter under the Great Seal, in favours [sic] of the College and Corporation of Surgeons of the City of Edinburgh, incorporating them, of new, under the name and title of the Royal College of Surgeons of the City of Edinburgh, and authorizing them to carry into execution a scheme for making a provision for the widows and children of the members of the Corporation, and their clerk.

  • Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Date:
M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]
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Credit: Charter under the Great Seal, in favours [sic] of the College and Corporation of Surgeons of the City of Edinburgh, incorporating them, of new, under the name and title of the Royal College of Surgeons of the City of Edinburgh, and authorizing them to carry into execution a scheme for making a provision for the widows and children of the members of the Corporation, and their clerk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 4 J ters Patent of their Majefties King Wil¬ liam and Queen Mary, bearing date the 28th day of February 1694, confirming all the former Grants : And thefe Letters Patent were ratified in Parliament the 17th day of July 1695: That the Peti¬ tioners humbly hoped they had been no Jefs deferving of Royal patronage than their Predeceffors; and their numerous Pupils ferving with reputation in Our army and navy, might be mentioned as evidence of the attention bellowed by the prefent members of the faid College to improve the art of Surgery: That they might maintain an equality with fimilar inflitutions in feveral neighbouring king¬ doms, they were folicitous that We might be gracioufly pleafed to confer upon them the Title of Royal College of Sur¬ geons. As Also, fetting forth, That under the authority of the aforefaid Grants and A6ls of the Legillature, the College had been in ufe of levying cer¬ tain furns from the Members, and cer¬ tain