| Description Of Item | From the papers of Richard Poole. According to Poole's notes and a preserved flyleaf these were presented to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh by William Adam, apothecary in 1709. These include: The Overture Given in for an Act to the Parliament entituled, An Overture of an Act concerning the Chirurgeons and Apothecaries of Edinburgh &c, 1707; Unto his Grace Her Majesties High Commissioner and the right Honourable the Estates of Parliament The Petition of the Lord Provost, Baillies, Town Council of Edinburgh supporting the overture, 1707; Copie of the Act of the Town Council of Edinburgh, in favours of the Chirurgion-Apothecaries, in the year 1657 with a copy of the Town Council of Edinburgh, their Ratification of the foresaid Act, 1696 and the Tenor of the patent granted by their present Majesties, to the Chirurgion-Apothecaries, 1696; Unto the Right Honourable The Lord Provost, Baillies, Dean of Guild, Thesaurer, and remanent Members of the Town Council of Edinburgh The Petition of Mr Alexander Hay, John Blair, John Wallace, George Baldestoune, William Adam, James Milne, Apothecaries, Burgesses in Edinburgh [to regulate pharmacy], c1689; Particular Condescendence One some Parts of the Decreet 1682 by which it is manifest that both the Points to be informed on, are Res Judicatae; To His Grace Her Majesty's High Commissioner, and the High and Honourable Estates of Parliament, Petition of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh (concerning the above Overture) (2 copies, 1 damaged); Additional Information for the Royal College of Physicians Against The Overture Presented to the Honourable Estates of Parliament, by the Chirurgeons of Edinburgh. (2 copies, damaged); Petition for the Apothecaries of Edinburgh, and others who desire to be Amitted to that Fraternity (2 copies), c1686; Representation for the Apothecaries of Edinburgh, Against the Pretended Chirurgeon-Apothecaries; Representation for the Apothecaries of Edinburgh, against the Act presented by the Chirurgeons; declaring that the Profession and Practice of Chirurgery and Pharmacy may be joyned in the same Persons &c; and Overture of an Act concerning Apothecaries in Edinburgh (2 copies). |