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or shall not be amoved meanwhile for any just and 

 reasonable cause), and thenceforth until another shall 

 have been elected, appointed, and nominated to the office 

 of President of the Koyal Society aforesaid ; and that he, 

 after that he shall so have been elected and nominated, 

 as it is aforesaid, to the office of President of the Royal 

 Society aforesaid, before he be admitted to that office, 

 shall take a corporal oath before the Council of the same 

 Royal Society, or any seven or more of them, rightly, well, 

 and faithfully to execute that office in all things touching 

 that office, according to the form and effect of the afore- 

 said oath, mutatis 'mutandis (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 aforesaid oath from time to 

 time, as often as it shall be necessary) ; and that after 

 having so taker^such oath, as it is aforesaid, he may be 

 able and have power to execute the office of President of 

 the Royal Society aforesaid until the feast of St. Andrew 

 the Apostle thereafter next following ; And if it shall 

 On the Death or happen that the President of the Royal Society aforesaid 



A motion of a Pre- rr . . ' * 



sidcnt, the Conn- for the time being, at any time, so long as he shall be in 

 or any seven or the office of President of the same Royal Society, shall die 

 to elect another, or be amoved from his office, that then and so often it 



and shall be good and lawful to the Council and 

 Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society, or to any seven 

 and unil or more ^ them (of whom we will the President of the 

 another be Council aforesaid to be always one at such an election),* 



sworn. to elect and appoint another of the aforesaid number of 



the Council aforesaid as President of the Royal Society 

 aforesaid ; and that he so elected and appointed may have 

 and exercise that office during the residue of the same 

 year, and until another shall have been in due manner 

 elected and sworn to that office, first taking a corporal 

 oath in the form last specified ; and so as often as the 

 case shall so happen. 



if any of the And further we will, that whenever it shall happen 



for retire that any one or any of the Council of the Royal Society 

 aforesaid for the time being shall die, or be amoved from 



given to the Pre- that office, or retire (which same [members! of the 



sident and Coun- v . L 



cii or major part Council of the Royal Society aforesaid, and every one of 



of them, whereof , J . . '_ _ . J 



the President to them, we will to be amoveable for misbehaviour or any 



siden? Counc^T other reasonable cause, at the good pleasure of the Presi- 



and Fellows, or 



* So in the original j see p. 24. 



