Second Charter. 65 



another shall have been in due manner elected and sworn 

 to that office, first taking a corporal oath in the form 

 above specified; and so as often as the case shall so 

 happen. 



And further we will, that whenever it shall happen On the Death, 

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



aforesaid for the time being shall die, or be amoved from Se heTby 1 mlJ'e 



that office, or retire (which same [members] of the p]'JJit by the 



Council of the Royal Society aforesaid, and every one of Council for suf- 



,, . . , , i . ficient cause,) 



them, we will to be amovable tor misbehaviour or the President, 



any other reasonable cause, at the good pleasure of the Fellows' or any 



President and of the rest of the Council aforesaid, of 



whom we will the President for the time being, or his 



Deputy, to be one, or of the major part of the same), Twenty-one 



that then and so often it may and shall be good and supply the va- 



lawful to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows amongst the 



of the Royal Society aforesaid, and to their successors for the person or 



ever, or to any twenty-one or more of the same (of whom 



we will the President of the Royal Society aforesaid 



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



raaior part of the aforesaid twenty-one or more, to iiomi- or others sha11 



J be elected. 



nate, elect, and appoint one other or several others of 

 the Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid, in the place or 

 places of him or them so dead, retired, or amoved, to fill 

 up the aforesaid number of twenty-one persons of the 

 Council of the Royal Society aforesaid ; and that he or 

 they so elected and appointed in that office may have the 

 same office until the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle 

 then next following, and thenceforth until one other or 

 several others shall have been elected, appointed, and 

 nominated ; first taking a corporal oath before the 

 President and Council of the Royal Society aforesaid, or 

 any seven or more of them (of whom we will the President 

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

 and faithfully to execute that office in and by all things 

 touching that office, according to the true intention of 

 these presents. 



And further we will, and by these presents for us our On St. Andrew's 

 , . , , , i /. i -rk j Da y> Ten f the 



neirs, and successors do grant to the aforesaid .President, Council (and no 



Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society, and change" bythe 



to their successors [for ever] , that they and their successors, 

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

 President for the time being, or his Deputy, to be always (of whom the Pn- 



i . " sident or his De- 



one), or the manor part of the aforesaid thirty-one or more, puty always to be 

 . , pou A T ii A J.T one,) or the major 



every year, on the aforesaid teast ot bt. Andrew tne Apostle, part of such 



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