Note 72 — 1. OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.

Such subsequent Charters would not however annul the original Letters Patent. “A new Charter doth not merge or extinguish any of the ancient privileges of the old Charter. And if an ancient corporation is incorporated by a new name, yet their new body shall enjoy all the privileges that the old corporation had.” Raym. 439: 4 Rep. 37. For other points as to renewed or substituted Charters, see The King v. Amery and Monk, by information in the nature of a quo warranto, 1 T.R. 575. Newling against Francis (the election of Mayor of Cambridge) 3 T. R. 189. The King against Miller, 6 T. R. 268. And more particularly Rex v. the Vice-Chancellor &c. of Cambridge, 3 Burr. 1656. “A Corporation already existing are not obliged to accept the new Charter in toto, and to receive either all or none of it. They may act partly under it and partly under their old Charter or Prescription. Whatever might be the notion in former times, it is now most certain, that the Corporations of the Universities are Lay-Corporations; and that the Crown cannot take away from them any rights that have been formerly subsisting in them under old Charters or prescriptive usage.”