First Charter. 41 



successors do give and grant to the aforesaid Council ers, and one or 



and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society, and to their 



successors, full power and authority from time to time to by^riti 



elect, nominate, and appoint one or more Typographers or 



Printers, and Chalcographers or Engravers, and to grant by the president, 



to him or them, by a writing, sealed with the Common Seal things (touching 



of the aforesaid Royal Society, and signed by the hand goc^t^asshaii 8 



of the President for the time being, faculty to print such Sta?b$S? in 



things, matters, and affairs touching or concerning the councfi?OTany 



aforesaid [Royal] Society, as shall have been committed to thlm(of whom f 



the aforesaid Typographer or Printer, Chalcographer or the President to 



Engraver, or Typographers or Printers, Chalcographers 



or Engravers, from time to time, by the President and 



Council of the aforesaid Royal Society, or any seven 



or more of them (of whom we will the President for the 



time being to be one) ; their corporal oaths first to be 



taken, before they be admitted to exercise their offices, 



before the President and Council for the time being, Theymustrje 



or any seven or more of them, in the form and effect first sworn before 



J the President and 



last specified; to which same President and Council, or to Council, or any 



. seven or more of 



any seven or more or them, we do give and grant by these them. 

 presents full power and authority to administer the oaths 

 aforesaid. 



And further, in order that the aforesaid President, The same Right 

 Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society may ceive, and uto- 



obtain the better effect in their philosophical studies, of 



our more ample special grace and of our certain knowledge 



and mere motion, we have given and granted, and by these 



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



to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the London have or 



aforesaid Royal Society, and to their successors, that they 



and their successors from time to time may and shall have 



full power and authority from time to time, and at such* 



seasonable times, according to their discretion, to require, 



take, and receive the bodies of such persons as have 



suffered death by the hand of the executioner, and to 



anatomize them, in such ample form and manner, and to 



all intents and purposes, as the College of Physicians 



and the Corporation of Surgeons of our City of London 



have used or enjoyed, or may be able and have power to 



use or enjoy, the same bodies. 



And further, for the improvement of the experiments, 

 arts, and sciences of the aforesaid Royal Society, of 

 jur more abundant special grace and of our certain know- 

 * So in the original. 



