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Mortmain, in perpetuity or otherwise, to or to the use of or in trust 

 for them or their successors, for the use and benefit of the said 

 corporation, from any person or persons, bodies politic and corporate, 

 their heirs and successors respectively, such manors lands tenements 

 rents or hereditaments, as they shall think fit to purchase, or shall 

 receive by writ, or any deed of conveyance, not exceeding the yearly 

 value of One thousand pounds above all charges and reprizes. AND 

 we do hereby also for us our heirs and successors give and grant our 

 especial Licence, full power, and lawful and absolute authority, to any 

 person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, their heirs and successors 

 respectively, to grant, alien, sell, convey, and dispose of in Mortmain, in 

 perpetuity or otherwise, to or to the use of or in trust for the President 

 Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of our city of London for im- 

 proving natural knowledge aforesaid, and their successors, any manors 

 lands tenements rents or hereditaments whatsoever, not exceeding the 

 yearly value of One thousand pounds. AND LASTLY, we do hereby, for 

 us our heirs and successors, grant unto the President Council and Fellows 

 of the Royal Society of our City of London for improving natural know- 

 ledge aforesaid, and their successors, that these our Letters Patents, 

 or the Inrollment or Exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all 

 things good firm valid sufficient and effectual in the law, according to 

 the true intent and meaning thereof ; NOTWITHSTANDING the not rightly 

 naming or describing any of the manors lands tenements rents or here- 

 ditaments already devised or granted to the said corporation, or to be 

 granted devised aliened or disposed of in Mortmain to them, and their 

 successors, in fee or otherwise, as aforesaid : or any other omission im- 

 perfection defect matter cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary there- 

 of in anywise notwithstanding. IN WITNESS whereof we have caused 

 these our Letters to be made Patents. WITNESS Ourself at Westmin- 

 ster, the Seventeenth day of December, in the Eleventh year of our 

 reign. 



' By writ of Privy Seal, 



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