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Translation of Third Charter, granting Chelsea College 

 and further Privileges, A. D. 1669. 



Charles the Second, by the grace of God, King of England, 

 Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, c., to all to 

 whom these our Letters Patent shall come, greeting. 



Know ye that we, of our special grace and of our certain knowledge 

 and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents for 

 us, our heirs, and successors do give and grant, to our beloved and 

 trusty the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of 

 London for promoting Natural Knowledge, and to their successors for 

 ever, All that piece of arable land called Teamshott, containing by Grant of Lands in 

 estimation twenty acres, lying between our highway leading from 

 Westminster to Chelsey on the north and west side, and a piece of 

 meadow, containing by estimation four acres, parcel of eighteen acres 

 of meadow, late in the tenure of the Earl of Nottingham or his assigns, 

 on the south side, and a close of meadow called Stony Bridge Close on 

 the east side, and a piece of arable land, late in the occupation of 

 Thomas Evans or his assigns, on the west side, by the particular 

 thereof mentioned to be of the yearly rent or value of twenty-three 

 shillings and four pence ; And also all that the aforesaid close of 

 meadow called Stony Bridge Close, containing by estimation four acres, 

 late in the occupation of John Deakes or his assigns, lying between the 

 stream called the Common Sewer on the east side, and the aforesaid 

 piece of land called Teamshott on the west side, and the bridge called 

 Stony Bridge on the north side, by the particular thereof mentioned 

 to be of the yearly rent or value of twenty shillings ; And also all that 

 one piece of arable land in the common field called East Field, 

 containing by estimation three acres, late in the occupation of Thomas 

 Frances or his assigns, lying between the aforesaid piece of land called 

 Teamshott on the east side, a piece of arable land, late in the tenure 

 of the Earl of Lincoln or his assigns, on the west side, a parcel of 

 meadow of Earles Court land on the south side, and our highway 

 leading from Westminster to Chelsey aforesaid on the north and west 

 side, by the particular thereof mentioned to be of the yearly rent or 

 value of four shillings ; (which same premises are, or formerly were, 

 parcel of our land in Chelsey, being parcel of the Demesne land of the 

 Manor of Chelsey aforesaid, and lately were parcel of the possessions 

 of John, late Duke of Northumberland ; and which lately by our very 

 dear grandfather, of blessed memory, King James, by his Letters 

 Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the eighth day of May, in the 

 year of his reign of England the eighth, and of Scotland the forty-third, 



