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seven or more of them ; to which same President and Council, or to 

 any seven or more of them for the time being, we gave and granted bv 

 our aforesaid Letters Patent full power and authority to administer 

 the oaths aforesaid ; as in our same Letters Patent, reference being 

 had thereto, it is more fully shown and appears : 



We, of our more abundant special grace and of our certain This charter directs 



iij j !. j L j i i tllat the President's 



knowledge and mere motion, have given and granted, and by Deputy shall continue 



these presents for us, our heirs, and successors do give and grant, 



to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid ono or mor 



Royal Society, and to their successors for ever, that from henceforth 



for ever if it shall happen that the President of the same Royal 



Society for the time being is detained by sickness or infirmity, or is 



employed in the service of us, our heirs, or successors, or is otherwise 



occupied, so that he cannot attend to the necessary affairs of the 



same Royal Society touching the office of President ; that then and 



so often it may and shall be good and lawful to the same President, 



so being detained, employed, or occupied, to nominate and appoint 



one of the Council of the aforesaid Royal Society for the time being 



to be and become the Deputy of the same President ; which same 



Deputy, so to be made and appointed in the office of Deputy of the 



President aforesaid, may and shall be the Deputy of the same President 



from time to time, as often as it shall happen that the aforesaid 



President is so absent, during the whole time in which the aforesaid 



President shall continue in the office of President, even though in the 



meanwhile the President of the Royal Society aforesaid for the time 



being shall have made and appointed one other or several others of 



the aforesaid Council his Deputy and Deputies ; to which same 



President for the time being we give and grant by these presents for And it gives him ex- 



, . i , , . , j . press power to appoint 



us, our heirs, and successors power and authority to make and appoint two or more Deputies, 

 two or more of the aforesaid Council his Deputies, at one and the oSeand'th^wune'** 

 same time, as often as it shall please him : And that every such tim ; who may, each 



' r j them, do the same 



Deputy and Deputies of the aforesaid President, so as it is aforesaid acts in his absence, as 



. , , 11111 i j ne himself could do if 



to be made and appointed, may be able and have power to do and pres ent. 

 execute all and singular things which pertain or ought to pertain to 

 the office of President of the aforesaid Royal Society, or which are 

 limited and appointed to be done and executed by the aforesaid 

 President by virtue of our aforesaid Letters Patent or of these 

 presents, from time to time, as often as it shall happen that the 

 aforesaid President is so absent, during such time as the Deputy and 

 Deputies of the aforesaid President shall continue, by force of these 

 our Letters Patent, as fully, freely, and wholly, and in as ample 

 manner and form, as the President aforesaid, if he were present, would 

 be able and have power to do and execute the same ; a corporal oath 



