62 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



first and present twenty-one of the Council of the Royal Society 



to continue as above, aforesaid ; to be continued in the same offices from the date of these 



cause; 0rJ presents until the aforesaid feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle next 



following, and thenceforth until other fitting and able and sufficient 



persons shall have been elected, appointed, and sworn into the offices 



aforesaid (if they shall live so long, or shall not have been amoved for 



but first to take, be fore any just and reasonable cause) ; first taking corporal oaths before the 



oat\ P afnl en iS ike President of the aforesaid Royal Society, well and faithfully to 



mutandis. execute their offices in and by all things touching those offices, 



according to the form and effect of the aforesaid oath, mutatis 



mutandis, to be administered to the President of the Royal Society 



aforesaid by our Chancellor of England ; (to which same President 



for the time being, for us, our heirs, and successors, we give and 



grant by these presents full power and authority to administer the 



oaths aforesaid ;) And that the same persons, so as it is aforesaid 



elected, appointed, and sworn, and hereafter to be elected, appointed, 



and sworn from time to time, to the Council of the aforesaid Royal 



Society, shall be and become aiding, counselling, and assistant in all 



matters, business, and affairs touching or concerning the better 



regulation, government, and direction of the aforesaid Royal Society, 



and of every Member of the same. 



And further we will, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and 

 The President, Coun- successors do grant to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows 

 who^n ^President f the Royal Society aforesaid, and to their successors, that the 

 to be one), to elect, President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid for the 



annually, on St. J * 



Andrew's Day, one out time being (of whom we will the President for the time being to be 

 President : who is to one) may and shall have from time to time in all future times for ever 

 power and authority to nominate and elect, and that they may be able 

 an( ^ ^ ave P ower * e ^ ec ^ an d nominate, every year, on the aforesaid 



chosen ; having first feast of St. Andrew, one of the Council of the aforesaid Royal Society 

 the Council or seven for the time being, who may and shall be President of the Royal 

 Society aforesaid until the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle there- 

 after next following (if he shall live so long, or shall not be amoved 

 meanwhile for any just and reasonable cause), and thenceforth until 

 another shall have been elected, appointed, and nominated to the 

 office of President of the Royal Society aforesaid ; and that he, after 

 that he shall so have been elected and nominated, as it is aforesaid, 

 to the office of President of the Royal Society aforesaid, before he 

 be admitted to that office, shall take a corporal oath before the 

 Council of the same Royal Society, or any seven or more of them, 

 rightly, well, and faithfully to execute that office in all things touching 

 that office, according to the form and effect of the aforesaid oath, 

 mutatis mutandis (to which same Council, or to any seven or more of 



