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Sitting enthroned and facing the viewer directly, Henry VIII pays no attention to the other figures in the picture. With his left hand he holds out a sealed document that is being taken by Thomas Vicary, the Master of the Barber Surgeons' Company. Various other members of the guild described by name, are placed on the right beside Vicary, some of them added later in the century. Kneeling on the left of the picture are the two royal physicians John Chambers and William Butts, together with the royal apothecary Thomas Alsop, none of whom were members of the Barber Surgeons' Company.
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