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to exercise their offices, before the President and Council for the time They must be first 



being, or any five or more of them ; and so as often as the case shall l^l ^"J? the .f re " 



si u.ent aim Uouncil, or 



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so happen : to which same President and Council for the time being 1 , an y ./*< more of 



6' them. 



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

 full power and authority to administer the oaths aforesaid. 



And further we will, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and General conarmatory 

 successors do grant to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows 

 of the Royal Society aforesaid and to their successors, that these our 

 Letters Patent, or the Enrolment of the same, shall stand and be in 

 and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual in law, to 

 all respects, purposes, constructions, and intents, towards and against 

 us, our heirs, and successors, as well in all our Courts as elsewhere 

 within our realm of England, without any confirmations, licences, or 

 tolerations from us, our heirs, or successors in any manner hereafter 

 to be procured or obtained : 



Notwithstanding the badly naming or badly reciting, or not 

 reciting, the aforesaid lands, tenements, and other the premises or 

 any parcel thereof; And notwithstanding the not finding an office or 

 inquisition of the premises or of any parcel thereof, whereby our title 

 ought to have been found before the making of these our Letters 

 Patent ; And notwithstanding the badly reciting, or not reciting, any 

 demise or grant made of the premises or of any parcel thereof, being 

 of record or not of record ; And notwithstanding the badly naming 

 or not naming any town, hamlet, parish, place, or county in which 

 the premises or any parcel thereof are or is ; And notwithstanding 

 that full, true, and certain mention is not made of the names of the 

 tenants, farmers, or occupiers of the premises or of any parcel thereof; 

 And notwithstanding any defects of the certainty, or computation, or 

 declaration of the true yearly value of the premises or of any parcel 

 thereof, or of the yearly rent reserved of and upon the premises, or of 

 and upon any parcel thereof, in these our Letters Patent expressed 

 and contained ; And notwithstanding the Statute made and enacted 

 in the Parliament of the Lord Henry the Sixth, late King of 

 England, our progenitor, in the eighteenth year of his reign ; And 

 notwithstanding any other defects in not certainly naming the nature, 

 kind, sort, quantity, or quality of the premises or of any parcel 

 thereof; And notwithstanding the Statute concerning the not 

 putting of lands and tenements to mortmain, or any statute, act, 

 ordinance, proclamation, provision, or restriction to the contrary 

 thereof heretofore had, made, enacted, ordained, or provided, in 

 anywise notwithstanding: SAVING, nevertheless, to Andrew Cole, 

 Esquire, and to all other persons whomsoever, other than us, our heirs, 

 and successors, such right, claim, interest, and demand whatsoever, 



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