APPENDIX. 



SUMMARY OF THE SECOND AND THIRD CHARTERS. 



EXTRACTED FROM WELD'S HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 

 VOL. II., pp. 494-521. 



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Second Charter, 1663. 



Incorporation and Corporate Name. 



The King himself Founder and Patron. 



Capacity to purchase ; and to grant ; and to sue and be sued ; 

 and to have a common Seal ; (which they have Liberty to 

 alter at pleasure.) 



Gran* of Arms, viz. Argent ; in a Canton Dexter, the three 

 Ldons of England : and also of a Crest, and Supporters. 



The Council shall consist of Twenty-one ; (of whom, the 

 President or his Deputy shall be always one.) 



All other Persons who shall be received and admitted as 

 Members, by the President and Council, or any eleven or 

 more of them (of whom, &c.), or by two Thirds or more of 

 those eleven or more within two Months ; and at all Times 

 after those two Months; by the President, Council, and 

 Fellows, or by any twenty-one or more of them (of whom 

 the President or his Deputy to be one), or by two third 

 Parts or more of the said twenty-one or more ; and shall be 

 registered ; shall be called Fellows of the said Royal Society, 

 for Life, unless regularly amoved. 



"William Lord Viscount Brouncker, named to be the first 

 President; to continue so till the next St. Andrew's Day, 

 and till another (out of the Council) should be chosen and 

 sworn. He himself to be first sworn in before the Lord 

 Chancellor. 

 The President's Oath. 



The first Council named. To continue till next St. Andrew's 

 Day, and till others shall be elected and sworn, unless 

 amoved for just Cause ; having first taken, before the 

 President, the like Oath as he took, mutatis mutandis. 

 The President, Council, and Fellows, or any nine or more of 

 them (of whom, &c.), may hold Assemblies at any Time or 

 Place in London, or within ten Miles of it. 



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