LORD KENYON. 303 



Dr. Askew and Dr. Fothergill, and those other 

 cases came before the Court of King's Bench, 

 as reported in Sir James Burrow. Since that 

 time your Lordship will find that other by-laws 

 have been introduced, greatly qualifying those 

 previous by-laws, and as I have been given to 

 understand, framed under the advice, and with 

 the assistance of some of the most eminent and 

 learned persons in this kingdom, in the profes- 

 sion of the law." [Mr. Erskine then recited 

 the by-law, by which licentiates might enter 

 the college upon being examined in regard to 

 their fitness, and afterwards proceeded thus :] 

 " Your Lordship observes then, that by the last 

 by-law which I have just now stated, though 

 a man had never seen either of the universities, 

 yet if he can find out of the whole college of 

 physicians, any one person who is a fellow of 

 the college, to usher him in for an examination, 

 he is, notwithstanding the other statute, of 

 which this statute, your Lordship observes, is 

 a great qualification, entitled to undergo the 

 ceremonies which the college has thought fit 

 to prescribe ; and which I will show your Lord- 

 ship, by and by, it has, and it cannot be denied 

 that it has, a right to prescribe for its own go- 

 vernment ; he may be admitted." 



