182 THE ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION 
Town, in the County of Middlesex, Veterinary Sur- 
geon; CHARLES SPOONER, of No. 1, Great 
College Street, St. Pancras, in the said county of Mid- 
dlesex, Veterinary Surgeon; and JAMES BEAPtT 
SIMON DS, of No. 9, Great College Street, St. Pan- 
cras, aforesaid. Veterinary Surgeon, Members of the 
Royal Veterinary College of London, have, by their 
Petition, humbly represented unto us. That the Royal 
Veterinary College of London, and the Veterinary 
College of Edinburgh, have been established for many 
years for the education of students of the veterinary 
art; That our said Petitioners have been pupils at 
the said Royal Veterinary College of London; That 
the said Royal Veterinary College of London was 
established in the year one thousand seven hundred 
and ninety-one, and has been patronized by our royal 
predecessors, and now enjoys our royal patronage ; 
That the said College was instituted to improve the 
veterinary art, which had been theretofore practised 
generally by ignorant and incompetent persons, which 
had been long and universally complained of; That 
Parliament, being fully convinced of the propriety of 
such an institution as the Royal Veterinary College of 
London, and of the national benefits to be derived 
from it, has munificently (when required) granted aid 
to that establishment ; That our said Petitioners hum- 
bly submitted that the institution of the Royal Veteri- 
nary College had been of great advantage to the coun- 
try and to our royal army, and the utility of it had 
been so highly estimated that some years ago a board 
of general officers was appointed to take the utility of 
the said institution into consideration, and they re- 
