Third Charter. 91 



or ought to pertain to the office of President of the afore- 



said Royal Society, or which are limited and appointed to 



be done and executed by the aforesaid President by 



virtue of those our Letters Patent, from time to time, 



as often as it shall happen that the aforesaid President is 



so absent, during such time as the Deputy of the afore- 



said President shall continue, by force of these our 



Letters Patent, as fully, freely, and wholly, and in as 



ample manner and form, as the President aforesaid, if he 



were present, may be able and have power to do and 



execute the same; a corporal oath first to be taken upon 



the holy Gospels of God, in the form and effect in our 



same Letters Patent specified, by such Deputy, well and 



faithfully to execute all and singular things which per- 



tain to the office of President, before the aforesaid Council 



of the aforesaid Royal Society, or any seven or more of 



them ; and so as often as the case shall so happen ; to 



which same Council, or to any seven or more of them, 



for the time being, we gave and granted, by our same 



Letters Patent, power and authority to administer the 



oath aforesaid, as often as the case shall so happen, with- 



out procuring or obtaining a writ, commission, or further 



warrant in that behalf from us, our heirs, and successors ; 



And 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 always one), may lawfully be 



able to make and have assemblies and meetings of them- 



selves for the examination and investigation of experi- 



ments and of natural things, and for other affairs belong- 



ing to the Society aforesaid, as often as and whenever it 



shall be needful, in a College or Hall or other convenient 



place within our City of London, or in any other con- 



venient place within ten miles from our same City : And 



whereas divers and various matters, powers, liberties, it takes notice 



. . . -r -n , , /i that several Pow 



and privileges granted in our same Letters ratent to tne era, granted by 

 aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal ca nnot \>l* 



Society aforesaid, by virtue of those our Letters Patent, 



are not to be exercised, done, performed, or executed, 



unless by the aforesaid President and Council, or any J>y virtue of that 



seven or more of them : And whereas further, by our 



aforesaid Letters Patent, for us, our heirs, and successors 



we gave and granted to the aforesaid President and 



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



cessors for ever, or to any twenty-one or more of them 



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



