Third Charter. 85 



provisione proclamatione sive restrictione in contrariam 

 inde antehac habito facto edito ordinato sive proviso, 

 aufc aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque, in aliquo 

 non obstante. 



In cnjus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri feci- 

 mus Patentes. TESTE Me ipso, apud We stmonas terrain, 

 octavo die Aprilis, anno regni nostri vicesimo primo. 

 Per breve de Privato Sigillo. 



PIGOTT.* 



THIED CHARTER, 



(Granting Chelsea College and further Privi- 

 leges,) granted to the same by the same, 

 A.D. 1669. 



CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God, King of 

 England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the 

 Faith, &c., to all to whom these our Letters Patent shall 

 come, greeting. 



Know ye that we, of our special grace and of our 

 certain knowledge and mere motion, have given and 

 granted, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and 

 successors do give and grant, to our beloved and trusty 

 the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society 

 -of London for promoting Natural Knowledge, and to 

 their successors for ever, All that piece of arable land 

 called Teamshott, containing bv estimation twenty acres, Grant of Lands 



T , -,. T^r j . x inChelsey. 



lying between our highway leading from Westminster to 



Chelsey on the north and west side, and a piece of 

 meadow, containing by estimation four acres, parcel of 

 eighteen acres of meadow, late in the tenure of the Earl 

 of Nottingham or his assigns, on the south side, and a 

 close of meadow called Stony Bridge Close on the east 

 side, and a piece of arable land, late in the occupation of 

 Thomas Evans or his assigns, on the west side, by the 

 particular thereof mentioned to be of the yearly rent or 

 value of twenty-three shillings and four pence ; And also 



* This Charter is on three skins of vellum. The first skin contains 

 an engraved portrait of Charles II., very much inferior in execution to 

 those in the preceding Charters. 



