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 ... Com

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I have caresui ly observed their proce edingsthrough the whole processe of the business, and nicely rem arked with what gradation, cando Ur, and ingenui ty, they have prosecuted their design. As wi se maste bullders, they have laid a good foundation a forandation with uniformity and strength, and no v verging to be possessed and ei oyed by the communi ty at large, by the sanctio in and author ity of the Barbers Company. Their having criti catly examineis the chartere trigliis and privileges of the Company, and ob tained the opinion of the best counset, fully exempli fies their judicio us condiret. Their articles and bye-laxus atready made, forregii lating the professon, must: I thin exceedyour most sanguine expectations, do ing credit noton ly to their judgment, but to their hearis. It is with ailonissament that I belloid ei ther Jour-

and wi se a procedure ld he Hair-merclianis and Persu mers sexcepi a feru self-interest ed men) deserve the highest encomitanas, having chearfully and liberalty favo ured Four desagias, as to malae an inseparabie interest. Indulge, Gentiemen, the honest scelings of a

irreligious opposiers of yotar and their own triae interest, Who have estron tery, through ignoranceor a Worse spirit, to with stand your just and laud- able purpOses, plania ed by the most wi se and sensibi e

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si bie men of the profession; and , What is more incredibis, their very existence depends on such equitable maXinas, and on the profession os menWhom they are opposing. Their names and cha raeters are weli linown and exposed, theres ore Ιspare them in this place, as the most phlegmaticdispositions woti id hisis them out os society, and hold them up to posteri ty as brantis of infamy. A late cruei remonstrance will justi sy the censure, particularly of the co- par iners on a cerea inhili in London the fact is too true to be dented, and too recent to be sorgot. Their mi alignancyagainst the regulation of the profession appears evident to all, and for no other reason but thattho se men seel thenaseives lesioned in their usurpe limporta iace, and hum bted in their enorm ous pride,

in being de prived of having the whole disposaland appotniment of journeymen to masters anumasters to journeymen, and that by means of the Society's Oisces being establis hed. They have waited sor an opportuni ty to me it, and the timeis come ; they have mean ly stooped so uis, as tovent it on an office-keeper of the Asociation, an eigh bour and a customer, a poOr man, but of an honest character, with a Wise and eight or nine child ren, in order to capture his person. They were obliged to usu ali the ari niggard nature possessed them os, and ad ded the interest-

money to malae the sum a molliat to an arre t, toprosecute their uncharitable resentinent, and cast apoor distre ed man into prison. These me a callthenaseives religio cis, and that of the strictest sectio et an d

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and yet sear not, in opposition to the texi, to talae their brother by the throat V and say, Pay his what thou owest.' They ad ded tothis amiction, and calched at the opportunity, hebeing a dependent on the Association and , hadit not been ior the pitying eye and tender heari offome individua is, in prison he must have rei Datned, for aught I can jud ge, to peristi, with his Vise and fami ly, through these obdUrate men. This faet, Genti emen, having been transmitte lio me by a friend of mine, I could not forbear vriting to you my sentiments on the subject, do ubi ing not but 'ou will marii suci, men with strict attention, and let them feet your just resent ment, Alast can such men cali sicli an adi Christian, who possessi not the common seelings of humanity ῖ No, they cannot, dare not; good men and their own conscience must give them the

Gentiemen,

Your frien d and very humbie servant,

An AS SOCIATE.

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to observe, that throughout the forna of the charters and acts of parti ament relative to the Bar-bers Company, Who at that time praetissed Surgery, where the word Commonalty, or Corporation, is expresed, besore the distinion of the two Compantes that is to say Barbers, or Barbery, it is generat ly mentioned singularly, and alWays talies thelead of the word Surgery, or Surgeons, aS thuS- The Corporation or Commonalty of Barbers, orBarber surgeons ; but the adh no where expresses the Commonalty or Corporation Os Surgeons, OTSurgeon barbers; Whicli strongly indicates that Surgery origina ted si ona Barbery, as that being the science and frist principi e of Surgery, and signified the sanae thing the refore on that account most probably they might be called Barber- surgeons, attheir sit st incorporation by Edward the Fourth. To' The very sen se of the word Corporation secures every privilege belonging to a Company; and , in consequence thereos, the Barbers had every privilege expressed in their charters attheir fir i institution, and afterwards had an enlargement of juris uiction. Their being debarred from exercising Surgery, as termed in the Act of Separation of George the Second, doesi Ot do away their privileges ; for the aci liseis allows ali the privileges that besore belonged to them as a Corporation. Dr. Johrason, in his explanation of the word Corporation, salth, any thing with in the compassi Of a charter bulongs to

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To improve the idea, let us talae a view os the fit st simple state of man, adting agreeable to the com- mand of his Malier, in culti vating Nature's pro duce, when finding her astray, by pruning her over-gro th, and giving her ali that grace and eleganceu hicli art coci id in i pire.

To the preservation of health and beau ty, Clean line sis is a necessary article, and a duty we Owe to God and Nature , and is Paradisse, or a garden, were to be culti valed, certain ly the human ngure require t it more. Besore maving the beard was in practice, Chatting as no termed) or adjusting the hair on the head , or beard, was ever done, frornthe beginning of the worid, and in time beca me anari or science, the stud y of particular persons, sorpreserving and improving natural beau ty, who by this acquired scili made a live lihood of the profession ; and when sta aving the beard was more common, Barbery beca me an occupation stili more generat, and is no no doubi a branch of the sci-Cnce called Surgery ; or et se, Why is a Barber sirsi to cui aWay the hairs, or mave them olf frona a

Surgeons were to do that part of the operation, ac

cord ing to their own definition of Surgery, theywould adt the part os a Barber, and fui ther provethat shaving is a part of Surgery. When blistersare to be put on the head of any person, a Barber

ost,

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or night, the sanae as Surgeons. Is not the caseclear then, that they are exempt frona serving allward and parista ossices, the same as Surgeons, whilst they can prove that they folioru and are Ca-pable os executing that branch of the trade : other Wisse, it would be making the acto of the legislature oblige a person to be at two Places at one time, whicli is a contradiction in ternas. Since the adi os dis union of the Barbers and Surgeons, in the reigia os George the Seconii, atriat was commenced against ille Barbers, by the Surgeons, with regarii to sonae claim of the Sur geons upon the Barbers Company, Which was givenin favo ur of the Barbers, who proved their antientriglit, as being sirit a Company. Another fuit of the sanae nature was commen cedsonae Iears ago, between the two Companies of Barbers and Surgeons in the town of Newcas letapon Tyne, Which was also gi ven in favour of the former, for the sanae reason os prior right of insti-

their firsst charter, to every immuni ty and exemption, as eXpressed therein as granted by Edward the Fourth, and the sanae righis and privileges continued to them aster their conjunction With the Surgeons, in the rei gn os Henry the Eighth, and that of James and Charies the First, together Withother ent argements of immunities and privileges, whicli are continued to them by the adt os separa

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tion, as expressed in the rei gn of George the Se cond ; it folio rus that they a re stili in possedion ofali sicli privileges, immunities, and exemptions, as at the first commencement of the Barbers Company. The Editor hath perhaps, in sonae res pedis, reverted frona his first intention of not giving his OKn opinion on the subject, regar ling the righis and privileges of the Company ; however, the re- martis he has made are but sew, and , in justice to

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