A translation of the charter from the latin, granted by King Henry VIII to the Company of Barbers of London; whereby they were made a corporation; also transcripts of the letters patent ... with acts of Parliament and bye-laws relative to the ... Company; rules and articles of the Association of Peruke-Makers, Hair-Dressers, &c.

  • Barbers Company (London, England)
Date:
[1785]
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Credit: A translation of the charter from the latin, granted by King Henry VIII to the Company of Barbers of London; whereby they were made a corporation; also transcripts of the letters patent ... with acts of Parliament and bye-laws relative to the ... Company; rules and articles of the Association of Peruke-Makers, Hair-Dressers, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    oeons who are Foreigners and not Freemen of the faid City, and who daily relbrt to the iaid City, and are not fufficiently Ikiiled, whereby very many and almoll infinite eviis have hitherto happened to many of our liegemen, in their wounds, hurts, bruifes, and other infirmities, by fuch Barbers and Surgeons, on account of their defebl in liealing and curing; from which caufe forne of our faid liegemen have gone the way of all flefli, and others, through the fame caufe, have been by every one given over as incurable and paft relief ^ and as it is to be dreaded, that fimilar or greater eviis may in future arife on this head, unlefs proper rcmedy is by us fpeedily provided for the fame : We, therefore, alfeftionately weighing and confidering that fuch eviis do happen to our liegemen, for want of the examination, corre6lions, and punilhments, by a due Superior of fuch Barbers and Surgeons as are infufficiently fkilled and inftrudted in the faid My- fteries or Arts as aforefaid, have, at the humble requefl of our beloved honeft and free men of the faid Myftery of Barbers in our faid City, granted to them, that the faid Myfteries, and all men of the faid Myftery, of the City aforefaid, Ihall be in fdd: and name One Body, and One Perpetuae CoMMUNiTY •, and that two Principals of the faid Community fliall, with the confent of twelve perfons, or at leaft eight, of the faid Community, v.ho are beft fkilled in the myfteries of Surgeons, every year ele6t and make out ol the faid Commu- nity two Mafters or Rulers of the iitmoft ikill, to fuperintend, rule, and govern the Myftery and r; D Community