Second Charter. 71 



the bodies of such persons as have suffered death by the 

 hand of the executioner, and to anatomize them, in as 

 ample manner and form, and to all intents and purposes, 

 as the President of the College of Physicians and the 

 Company of Surgeons of our City of London (by whatsoever 

 names the two aforesaid corporations shall have been 

 distinguished) have used or enjoyed, or may be able and 

 have power to use and enjoy, the same bodies. 



And further, for the improvement of the experiments, Licence is given 

 arts, and sciences of the aforesaid Royal Society, of our 

 more abundant 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 n Philosophical 



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and grant, to the aforesaid President, Council, and Mechanical Sub- 

 Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society, and to their sorts'of Foreign 

 successors for ever, that they and their successors, or any 

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

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

 maior part of the aforesaid nine or more, may and shall Seven or more of 



J * . . them, and in the 



have from time to time full power and authority, by letters name of the 

 or epistles under the hand of the aforesaid President or his 

 Deputy, in the presence of the Council, or of any seven or 

 more of them, and in the name of the Royal Society, to 

 enjoy mutual intelligence and affairs with all and all 

 manner of strangers and foreigners, whether private or 

 collegiate, corporate or politic, without any molestation, 

 interruption, or disturbance whatsoever : Provided never- 

 theless, that this our indulgence, so granted as it is 

 aforesaid, be not extended to further use than the par- 

 ticular benefit and interest of the aforesaid Royal Society 

 in matters or things philosophical, mathematical, or 

 mechanical. 



And further we have given and granted, and by these Licence given to 



m -/ . the President, 



presents for us, our heirs, and successors do give council, and Fei- 



and grant to the aforesaid President, Council, and 



Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid, and to their sue- 



cessors for ever, or to the President and Council of the 



Royal Society aforesaid, or the major part of them, full 



power and authority to erect, build, and construct, or to miles of it. 



make or cause to be erected, built, or constructed, within 



our City of London, or ten miles of the same, one or 



more College or Colleges, of whatsoever kind or quality, 



for the habitation, assembly, and meeting of the aforesaid 



President, Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal 



Society, and of their successors, for the ordering and 



