TRANSLATION OF SECOND CHARTER 89 



appointed one other of the aforesaid Council his Deputy ; And that 



every such Deputy of the aforesaid President so to be made and 



appointed, as it is aforesaid, may be able and have power to do and 



execute all and singular things which pertain or ought to pertain to The Deputy may, in 



the office of President of the aforesaid Royal Society, or which are p^aWeTttdo^Lts 



limited and appointed to be done and executed by the aforesaid t , ha . t x . he himself could 



* J uo it present. 



President, by virtue of these our Letters Patent, from time to time, as 



often as the aforesaid President shall happen to be so absent, during 



such time as he shall continue the Deputy of the aforesaid President, 



by force of these our Letters Patent, as fully, freely, and wholly, and 



in as ample manner and form, as the aforesaid President, if he were 



present, would be able and have power to do and execute those But he must first be 



things; a corporal oath first to be taken by such Deputy upon the SSt?lSi 



holy Gospels of God, in the form and effect above specified, well and m r eofthem. 



faithfully to execute all and singular things which pertain to the 



office of President, before the aforesaid Council of the aforesaid Royal 



Society, or any seven or more of them ; and so often as the case shall 



so happen : to which same Council, or to any seven or more of them, 



for the time being, we do give and grant by these presents, power 



and authority to administer the oath aforesaid, as often as the case 



shall so happen, without procuring or obtaining a writ, commission, 



or further warrant in that behalf from us, our heirs, or successors. 



And further we will, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and sue- The Society may have 

 cessors do grant to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the secretaries,'two or 

 Royal Society aforesaid, and to their successors, that they and their Experimen^one 

 successors henceforth for ever may and shall have one Treasurer, two Clerk or more, and 



' . two Serjeants-at-Mace 



Secretaries, two or more Curators of Experiments, one Clerk or more, to attend upon the 

 and moreover two Serjeants-at-Mace, who may from time to time attend are to be chosen and 

 upon the President; and that the aforesaid Treasurer, Secretaries, SJStcSuSi.wS 1 " 

 Curators, Clerk or Clerks, and Sergeants-at-Mace, to be elected and Fellows, or any thirty 



, one or more of them, 



nominated by the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society (of whom the Presi- 

 aforesaid, or by any thirty-one or more of them (of whom we will the be one,) or by the 

 President for the time being, or his Deputy, to be one), or by the major Jh1rty4>n^or f more = 

 part of the aforesaid thirty-one or more, before they be admitted to and they must be 



' J sworn before the 



execute their special 1 and respective offices, shall take their corporal President or his De- 

 oaths in the form and effect above specified, before the President, or c u, or any seven or 

 his Deputy, and the Council of the same Royal Society, or any seven K 

 or more of them, rightly, well, and faithfully to execute their several 

 and respective offices in all things touching the same ; and that after 

 having so taken such oaths, as it is aforesaid, they may exercise and 

 use their respective offices ; to which same President and Council, or 

 to any seven or more of them, we do give and grant by these presents 

 1 So in the original ; qu. several. 



