Note 86 — 1. OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.

This custom of amercing for unlicenced practice appears to have been very commonly adopted by the College: (see Goodall’s Proceedings,) it was undoubtedly erroneous, but as it was less expensive to the parties so fined than a suit for five pounds a month, according to the Statute, of which the defendant must have paid the costs, it was very generally acquiesced in till 1622, when the above trial took place.