AT GLASGOW the seventh day of March, One thousand six hundred and ninety eight ye [...] the whilk day, Doctor Peter Patoun Physician, Preses and Assessor to the Faculty, Jan. Weir Chirurgeon-Apothecary present Visitor, and remanent Members of the Chirurgeons [...] Pharmacians of Glasgow being Conveen'd, and taking to their Consideration, that one of [...] [...]auses, for which His MAJESTY of ever blessed Memory, JAMES the sixth King of Scots, by [...] [...]oyal Gift, of the Date the penult day of November, One thousand five hundred and ninety nine y [...] [...]ranted in Favours of the said Faculty of Chirurgeons and Pharmacians, the Priviledges and Immun [...] [...]ey now Enjoy; is, that the said Faculty should, with the Assistance of a Physician Assessor, Com [...]cate their Advice Gratis, the first Munday of each Moneth in the Year, to every poor diseased [...], who should apply to them, who had Residence within their Jurisdiction, and had Testimonials fro [...] [...]eir Ministers or Elders, of the respective Paroches where they Lived; With which the Members of [...] [...]lty Residenters at Glasgow, have not only heretofore Complyed, and given Obedience to; But also in [...]gard, there are diverse and sundry Members of Faculty, whose Residence are promiscuously, through th [...] [...]eral parts of the Faculties Jurisdiction in the Countrey, who by their Admission, and Acts of Fac [...] [...] which they are lyable; are oblig'd to Communicate their Advice to the Poor of the respective Paroc [...] [...]here they Live, the first Munday of each Moneth Gratis, which heretofore hath not been practicab [...] [...] the Countrey. And the Faculty being resolved, that the Poor diseased in the Countrey, should not b [...] [...]estitute of Advice, more than these of the City of Glasgow. Therefore, it is Statute and Ordain [...] [...]hat the Faculty at Glasgow, should not only Continue in their Custome of Conveening, each fir [...] [...]unday of ilk Moneth of the Year, at their publick Hall, to Visit and give Advice to every poor Di­ [...]sed Person (within the City of Glasgow, or the Faculties Jurisdiction) Gratis, who shall apply [...] [...]em at their said Hall, within the said City for their Advice, having Testimonials from the Ministers [...] [...]ders where they Live. But sicklike, That every Member of Faculty living in the Countrey or any her Burgh, within the Faculties Precincts (which Comprehends the Shires of Lanrick, Dumba [...] ­ [...]m, Ranfrew and Aire: Comprehending Kyll, Carrick and Cunningham) shall be hereby Boun [...] [...]d Oblig'd, to Attend the said first Day of every Moneth in the Year, at their respective Dwelling [...]uses; And shall be Oblig'd to Communicate their Advice Gratis, according to the Qualifications of [...]eir respective Admissions, to the Poor so applying to them by Testimonials as said is. And Ordains [...] Presents to be Printed and Published at the whole Paroch-Churches within the Faculties Jurisdiction, at the Poor Diseased may be advertised hereof.