66 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



those who shall so have been elected, appointed, and sworn to the 

 aforesaid several and respective offices, as it is aforesaid, may be able 

 and have power to exercise and enjoy those respective offices until 

 the aforesaid feast of St. Andrew then next following, their aforesaid 

 oaths, as it is aforesaid, first to be taken ; and so as often as the case 

 And if any of them shall so happen : And if it shall happen that any one or any of the 

 6 officers aforesaid of the same Royal Society shall die, or be amoved 



made of others to f rom their respective offices, that then and so often it may and shall 



supply their places, 



for the residue of the be good and lawful to the President, Council, and Fellows of the 

 shall be* duly elected aforesaid Royal Society, or to the major part of the same (of whom 

 we will the President for the time being to be one), to elect and appoint 

 another or others to the office or offices of those persons so deceased or 

 amoved ; and that he or they so elected and appointed may have and 

 exercise the respective offices aforesaid during the residue of the same 

 year, and until another or others shall have been in due manner 

 elected and sworn to those respective offices ; and so as often as the 

 case shall so happen. 



And moreover we will, and of our special grace and of our certain 



knowledge and mere motion do grant to the aforesaid President, 



Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid, and to their 



The President and successors, that the President and Council of the aforesaid Royal 



part of them (of whom Society for the time being, and the major part of the same (of whom 



one) ma^meeUn'a we w ^ the President for the time being to be one), may be able and 



College or other public h aV e power to meet together and assemble in a College or other public 



place or Hall in r t ' r 



London, or within ten place or Hall within our City of London, or in any other convenient 

 Laws, statutes, and place within ten miles of our same City ; and that they so met together 

 au d otherthingsrtiat- an{ ^ assembled shall and may have full authority, power, and faculty 

 ing to the affairs of from time to time to draw up. constitute, ordain, make, and establish 



the Society. f 



such laws, statutes, acts, ordinances, and constitutions as shall seem to 

 them, or to the major part of them, to be good, wholesome, useful, 

 honourable, and necessary, according to their sound discretions, and to 

 do and perform all other things whatsoever belonging to the affairs 

 and matters of the Royal Society aforesaid ; all and singular which 

 laws, statutes, acts, ordinances, and constitutions so to be made as 

 it is aforesaid, we will, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and 

 successors, firmly enjoining, do order and command, that they shall 

 be inviolably observed from time to time, according to the tenor and 

 effect of the same : so nevertheless that the aforesaid laws, statutes, 

 acts, ordinances, and constitutions so to be made as it is aforesaid, and 

 every one of them, be reasonable, and not repugnant or contrary 

 to the laws, customs, acts, or statutes of this our Realm of England. 

 Power is given to the And further, of our more ample special grace and of our certain 



Council and Fellows , ., , . , . , ,, -ii.i 



to appoint one or more knowledge and mere motion, we have given and granted, and by these 



