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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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    Is] tain fees from Intrants, whereby a Ca¬ pital has been raifed, the intereft and in- come of which is applied towards the re¬ lief of their indigent members, their wi¬ dows and children: That finding their prefent funds inadequate to afford fuffi- cient relief to their poor, and being con¬ vinced of the utility of railing a fund for a provifion for the widows and children of the members of the Corporation and pf their clerk, they had formed a fcheme for that purpofe, which, after being de¬ liberately confidered, was unanimoufly approved of in a general meeting of the Corporation, held upon the 11 th day of July 1777: And praying, That in addi¬ tion to the Letters Patent and A61s of Parliament already granted and made in favour of the faid Corporation and Col¬ lege of Surgeons of the City of Edin¬ burgh, We would be gracioufly pleafed to grant our Royal Letters Patent under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept in Scotland, in place of