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presents for us, our heirs, and successors do give and grant to the Printer or Printers, 

 aforesaid Council and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society, and to ^avororE^vST; 

 their successors, full power and authority from time to time to elect, f nd to authorize them 



' _/ 'by writing under the 



nominate, and appoint one or more Typographers or Printers, and Common Seal, and 

 Chalcographers or Engravers, and to grant to him or them, by a dent, to print stwh 

 writing, sealed with the Common Seal of the aforesaid Royal Society, S5ijf?he* r 

 and signed by the hand of the President for the time being, faculty to Spc^y) M 8ha11 be 



. . . . * given them in charge 



print such things, matters, and affairs touching or concerning the by the President and 

 aforesaid [Royal] Society, as shall have been committed to the or^ore'ofthem^of 11 

 aforesaid Typographer or Printer, Chalcographer or Engraver, or jJbToSj ; President 

 Typographers or Printers, Chalcographers or Engravers, from time to 

 time, by the President and Council of the aforesaid Royal Society, or 

 any seven or more of them (of whom we will the President for the time 

 being to be one) ; their corporal oaths first to be taken, before they be They must be first 

 admitted to exercise their offices, before the President and Council for 35 Sco^cU^or 

 the time being, or any seven or more of them, in the form and effect ^^ ven or more of 

 last specified ; to which same President and Council, or to any seven 

 or more of them, we do give and grant by these presents full power 

 and authority to administer the oaths aforesaid. 



And further, in order that the aforesaid President, Council, and The same right t 

 Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society may obtain the better effect in 

 their philosophical studies, of our more ample special grace and of our jj 



certain knowledge and mere motion, we have given and granted, and Society, as the College 



6 of Physicians and the 



by these presents for us, our heirs, and successors, do give and grant, Corporation of Sur- 

 to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid 



Royal Society, and to their successors, that they and their successors 

 from time to time may and shall have full power and authority from 

 time to time, and at such l seasonable times, according to their 

 discretion, to require, take, and receive the bodies of such persons as 

 have suffered death by the hand of the executioner, and to anatomize 

 them, in such ample form and manner, and to all intents and purposes, 

 as the College of Physicians and the Corporation of Surgeons of our 

 City of London have used or enjoyed, or may be able and have power 

 to use or enjoy, the same bodies. 



And further, for the improvement of the experiments, arts, and 

 sciences of the aforesaid Royal Society, of our more abundant special 

 grace and of our certain knowledge and mere motion, we have given Licence to hold a 



' . ' , Literary Correspon- 



and granted, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and successors do dence, on Phiiosophi- 



give and grant, to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the 



aforesaid Royal Society, and to their successors, that they and their 



successors from time to time may and shall have full power and sealed with the Com- 



11 * ii_ e *J mon Seal of the 



authority, by letters or epistles under the hand or the aforesaid society, and signed 



1 So in the original. 

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