TRANSLATION OF FIRST CHARTER 63 



them, we give and grant by these presents for us, onr heirs, and 



successors, full power and authority to administer the aforesaid oath 



from time to time, as often as it shall be necessary) ; and that after 



having so taken such oath, as it is aforesaid, he may be able and have 



power to execute the office of President of the Royal Society aforesaid 



until the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle thereafter next following ; 



And if it shall happen that the President of the Royal Society afore- On the Death or 



said for the time being, at any time, so long as he shall be in the dent, the Council and 



office of President of the same Royal Society, shall die or be amoved 



from his office, that then and so often it may and shall be good and to elect another, out 



J of the Council : who 



lawful to the Council and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society) or is to hold, during the 

 to any seven or more of them (of whom we will the President of the (beingfirst sworn)' 

 Council aforesaid to be always one at such an election), 1 to elect and chosen and" worn. ^ 

 appoint another of the aforesaid number of the Council aforesaid as 

 President of the Royal Society aforesaid ; and that he so elected and 

 appointed may have and exercise that office during the residue of the 

 same year, and until another shall have been in due manner elected 

 and sworn to that office, first taking a corporal oath in the form last 

 specified ; and so as often as the case shall so happen. 



And further we will, that whenever it shall happen that any one or if any of the Council 

 any of the Council of the Royal Society aforesaid for the time being retire (and power of 

 shall die, or be amoved from that office, or retire (which same 



gen 

 [members] of the Council of the Royal Society aforesaid, and every and Council or major 



J . . P ar * * them, whereof 



one of them, we will to be amovable for misbehaviour or any other the President to be 



reasonable cause, at the good pleasure of the President and of the rest 



of the Council aforesaid surviving and remaining in that office, or of tL 



the major part of the same, of whom we will the President for the *? be one )> may supply 



J . the vacancy out of 



time being to be one), that then and so often it may and shall be good the Fellows : and the 



and lawful to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the (being first sworn) tui 



Royal Society aforesaid, or to the major part of the same (of whom ^^and 



we will the President of the Royal Society aforesaid for the time being Election. 



to be one), to nominate, elect, and appoint one other or several others of 



the Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid, in the place or places of him 



or them so dead, retired, or amoved, to fill up the aforesaid number of 



twenty-one persons of the Council of the Royal Society aforesaid ; and 



that he or they so elected and appointed in that office may have the same 



office until the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle then next following, and 



thenceforth until one other or several others shall have been elected, 



appointed, and nominated; first taking a corporal oath before the 



President and Council of the Royal Society aforesaid, or any seven or 



more of them for the time being, well and faithfully to execute that 



1 So in the original ; see p. 52. 



