Record of the Royal Society. 



of such Thirty- 

 one or more, may 

 upon every St. 

 Andrew's Day, 

 annually, elect 

 one of the Coun- 

 cil to be their 

 President, who 

 shall continue so, 

 (if not dead or 

 amoved,) till the 

 next St. Andrew's 

 Day, and till 

 another shall be 

 elected ; having 

 first been sworn 

 in before the 

 Council, or any 

 Seven or more of 

 them. 



On the Death or 

 Amotion of a 

 President, or if 

 he retire, the 

 Council or any 

 Eleven or more 

 of them may 

 meet to choose a 

 President out of 

 the Council: and 

 rhe person chosen 

 by them, or the 

 injor part of 

 them, being 

 .sworn, shall hold 

 during the resi- 

 due of the year, 

 and until another 

 shall be elected 

 and sworn. 



thirty-one or more of them (of whom we will the Presi- 

 dent for the time being, or his Deputy, to be one), or the 

 major part of the aforesaid thirty-one or more, may and 

 shall have from time to time in all future times for ever 

 power and authority to nominate and elect, and that they 

 may be able and have power to elect and nominate, 

 every year, on the aforesaid feast of St. Andrew, one of 

 the Council of the aforesaid Royal Society for the time 

 being, who may and shall be President of the Royal 

 Society aforesaid until the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle 

 thereafter next following (if he shall live so long, 

 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 Royal Society aforesaid ; and that he, 

 after that i^g 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 oath aforesaid from time to 

 time, as often as it shall be needful to elect a President) ; 

 and that after having so taken such oath, as it is afore- 

 said, 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 happen that the President of the Royal 

 Society for the time being, at any tinje, so long as he shall 

 be in the office of President of the same Royal Society, 

 shall die, retire, or be amoved from his office, that then 

 and so often it may and shall be good and lawful to the 

 Council of the Royal Society aforesaid, and to their suc- 

 cessors for ever, or to any eleven or more of them, to 

 assemble or meet for the election of one of the aforesaid 

 number of the Council aforesaid as President of the Royal 

 Society aforesaid ; and that he who shall have been elected 

 and sworn by the Council aforesaid, or by the aforesaid 

 eleven or more, or by the major part of the aforesaid 

 eleven and more, as it is aforesaid, may have and exercise 

 that office during the residue of the same year, and until 



