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son can be proposed for election unless on the recommendation 
of at least three Fellows. 
§ 2. The Associates form that portion of the Society to which 
its patronage is directed; they are to consist of two classes, 
viz. Associates under Patronage, whether of the King or of the 
Society; and Honorary Associates ; from which latter class the 
Associates under Patronage will chiefly be elected. 
The Cless of Associates under Patronage, is to consist of per- 
sons of distinguished learning, authors of some creditable work 
of literature, and men of good moral character, ten on the Royal 
endowment, of whom shall be natives of the United King- 
dom, and foreigners ; and an unlimited number on the 
funds of the Society, as soon and in proportion as the amount 
funded shall be sufficient for the purpose: the whole number 
both on the Royal endowment, and on the funds of the Society, 
to be appointed by the Council of the Society. 
Authors desirous of becoming Associates, shall send a specifi- 
cation of their works, which being approved by the Council of 
the Society, they will be eligible to the class of Honorary Asso- 
ciates; to which class no person shall be elected, but on the re- 
commendation of at least three Fellows of the Society. 
Every Associate under patronage shall, at his admission, choose 
some subject or subjects of literature, upon which he will engage 
to communicate within the year a paper or papers for the So- 
ciety’s Memoirs of Literature ; of which memoirs a volume will 
be published by the Society from time to time. 
§ 3. The Honorary Members shall be such persons as are en- 
titled to public respect on account of their literary characters, 
and are to consist of Professors of literature in the several uni- 
versities of the United Kingdom; Head Masters of the great 
schools of Royal foundation, and other great schools ; eminent 
literary men in the United Kingdom; distinguished female writers ; 
and also foreigners celebrated for literary attainments. 
Subscriptions and Benefactions. 
§ 1. An annual subscription of ten guineas continued for five 
years, and engaged to be continued at “Tekst five years more ; or, 
a benefaction of one hundred guineas, will entitle such sqbenny- 
bers and benefactors to privileges hereafter to be declared, ac- 
cording to the date of their subscription. The same privileges 
to be extended to all other subscribers or benefactors, when their 
respective subscriptions or benefactions shall collectively amount 
to ove hundred guineas, 
S 2. Honorary Members may become subscribers or benefae- 
tors; and, in order that every member of the Society may have an 
opportunity 
