TRANSLATION OF FIRST C 11AKIKR 63 



them, we give and grant by these presents for us, our heirs, and 



successors, full power and authority to administer I In .ifnn^aid oatli 



from time to time. a> often as it shall be necessary); and that after 



having so taken such oath, its it is aforesaid, he may be ;d>l- and have 



power to execute the office of President of the Royal Soeiety aforesaid 



until the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle thereafter next following ; 



And if it shall happen that the President of the Royal Society afore- On the Death . r 



said for the time being, at any time, so long as he shall be in the dent, the Council and 



office of President of the same Royal Society, shall die or l>e amoved 



from his office, that then and so often it may and shall be good and 



lawful to the Council and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society, or J 



to any seven or more of them (of whom we will the President of the (being first sworn), 



Council aforesaid to be always one at such an election), 1 to elect and chosen^tTswora. 1 * 



appoint another of the aforesaid number of the Council aforesaid as 



President of the Royal Society aforesaid ; and that he so elected and 



appointed may have and exercise that office during the residue of the 



same year, and until another shall have been in due manner elected 



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



specified ; and so as often as the case shall so happen. 



And further we will, that whenever it shall happen that any one or if any of the Council 

 any of the Council of the Royal Society aforesaid for the time being retire (and power of 

 shall die, or be amoved from that office, or retire (which same ^ento thFn^deat 

 [members] of the Council of the Royal Society aforesaid, and every an rt^J u t hem whereof 

 one of them, we will to be amovable for misbehaviour or any other the Presi 

 reasonable cause, at the good pleasure of the President and of the rest conn. 11. an.i K.HOWS, 

 of the Council aforesaid surviving and remaining in that office, or of them^the^Pre^i.'i! m 

 the major part of the same, of whom we will the President for the Jj^., 

 time being to be one), that then and so often it may and shall be good the Fellows : H n<i th 

 and lawful to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the (being first sworn) till 

 Royal Society aforesaid, or to the major part of the same (of whom JJli uJtter* 



we will the President of the Royal Society aforesaid for the time being Election. 

 to be one), to nominate, 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 for the time being, well and faithfully to execute that 



1 So in the original ; see p. 52. 



