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![to the people, and were, in fact, the real origin of the civil war which ended in the ignominious death of Charles, and establishment of the pro- tectorate. The fears of the Protestants, respecting the re-establishment of the Catholic religion, made the people acquiesce in the tyranny of Eliza- beth; but, as this fear wore off, a spirit of resistance began to display itself, during the reign of James, who, although he contrived to weather the storm himself, only stilled it for a few years, to fall with more weight upon his son and successor, the truly unfortunate Charles. In the last year of the reign of James, namely, 1624, the storm began to lour, and the House of Commons presented a very long petition of grievances, amongst which the formation of the monopoly of the Apothecaries’ Company was one. The following is a copy of the clause in the petition which relates to this Company; taken from Cobbett’s “ Parliamentary History, vol. I. col. 1491:— “ Apothecaries.] Whereas, the Apothecaries of the city of London have been anciently members of the Com- pany of Grocers of the same city; and whereas, the said Grocers did and do far exceed the number of Apothe- caries, and did even buy and sell all manner of drugs as well as Apothecaries, which drugs, at several times of the year, were by the president and censor of the College of the Physicians searched out and viewed, whether the D 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2202203x_0001_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
