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as he or they or any one of them has or may have, or of right ought 

 to have, of and in the premises or any part or parcel thereof. 

 The President and And further we will, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and 



successors do ordain, and firmly enjoining do command, that the 

 President of the Society aforesaid for the time being, and his 



Supremacy, before the Deputies, before he or any of them be admitted to the execution of that 



Council, or teven or ' . 



more ot them, pre- office, shall take, and each of them shall take, as well the corporal 

 ing. ' oath, commonly called the Oath of Allegiance, as the corporal oath, 



commonly called the Oath of Supremacy, upon the holy Gospels of 

 God, before the Council of the same Society, or any seven or more of 

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

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

 full power and authority to administer the oaths aforesaid from time 

 to time, whensoever it shall be needful. 



Provided always, and our Royal will and intention is, that the 

 lands and premises aforesaid granted by these presents, as it is 

 aforesaid, or any of them, shall not be alienated or sold to any person 

 or persons whomsoever ; anything in these presents contained to the 

 contrary thereof notwithstanding. 



Although express mention of the true yearly value or of the 

 certainty of the premises or of any of them, or of other gifts or 

 grants before these times made by us or by any of our progenitors 

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

 Royal Society of London, and to their successors, is not made in 

 these presents ; or any statute, act, ordinance, provision, proclamation, 

 or restriction to the contrary thereof heretofore had, made, enacted, 

 ordained, or provided, or any other thing, cause, or matter whatsoever, 

 in anywise notwithstanding. 



In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made 

 Patent. Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the eighth day of April, 

 in the twenty-first year of our reign. 



By writ of Privy Seal. 



PIGOTT. 

 NOTE. 



An enrolment at the Record Office, of which the following is an abstract, 

 reconveys to King Charles II the three Closes granted by the third Charter. 

 Close Roll, 33 Chas. II, Part 3, No. 3. 

 (In English.) 



Indenture, 8 Feb., 34 Chas. II, 1681[-2], between the King's most excellen 

 Majesty of the one part, and the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal 

 Society (&c.) of the other part ; whereby (for 1,300/.) the latter bargain and sell 

 to the former 'All that piece of arable land called Teamshott', &c., 'all that 

 aforesaid Close of meadow called Stonebridge Close,' &c., < and also all that one 

 piece of arable land in a common field called Eastfeild,' &c., which were grante 

 by the King to the Society by letters patent 8 April, 21 Chas. II. 



