1)8 Record of the Royal Society. 



Mortmain, in perpetuity or otherwise, to or to the use of or in trust 

 for them or their successors, for the use and benefit of the said 

 corporation, from any person or persons, bodies politic and cor- 

 porate, their heirs and successors respectively, such manors lands 

 tenements rents or hereditaments, as they shall think fit to purchase, 

 or shall receive by writ, or any deed of conveyance, not exceeding 

 the yearly value of One thousand pounds above all charges and 

 reprizes. AND we do hereby also for us our heirs and successors 

 give and grant our especial Licence, full power, and lawful and 

 absolute authority, to any person, or persons, bodies politic or cor- 

 porate, their heirs and successors respectively, to grant, alien, sell, 

 convey, and dispose of in Mortmain, in perpetuity or otherwise, to 

 or to the use of or in trust for the President Council and Fellows of 

 the Royal Society of our city of London for improving natural 

 knowledge aforesaid, and their successors, any manors lands tene- 

 ments rents or hereditaments whatsoever, not exceeding the yearly 

 value of One thousand pounds. AND LASTLY, we do hereby, for us 

 our heirs and successors, grant unto the President Council and 

 Fellows of the Royal Society of our City of London for improv- 

 ing natural knowledge aforesaid, and their successors, that these 

 our Letters Patents, or the Inrollment or Exemplification thereof, 

 shall be in and by all things good firm valid sufficient and effectual 

 in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof ; NOT- 

 WITHSTANDING the not rightly naming or describing any of the 

 manor lands tenements rents or hereditaments already devised or 

 granted to the said corporation, or to be granted devised aliened or 

 disposed of in Mortmain to them, and their successors, in fee or 

 otherwise, as aforesaid : or any other omission imperfection defect 

 matter cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof in anywise 

 notwithstanding. IN WITNESS whereof we have caused these our 

 Letters to be made Patents. WITNESS Ourself at Westminster, the 

 Seventeenth day of December, in the Eleventh year of our reign. 



" By writ of Privy Seal, 



" COCKS." 



Ts'OTE. 



An enrolment at the Record Office, of which the following is an abstract, recon- 

 veys to King Charles II the three Closes granted by the third Charter. 



Close Roll, 33 Chas. II, Part 3. No. 3. 

 (In English.) 



Indenture, 8 Feb., 34 Chas. II, 1681[-2], between the King's most excellent 

 Majesty of the one part, and the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal 



