RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



those who shall so have been elected, appointed, and sworn to the 



:.d and respective offices, as it is aforesaid, may be able 



and ha\e power to exercise and enjoy those respective offices until 



the aforesaid frast of St. Andrew then next following, their aforesaid 



oaths, as it is aforesaid, first to be taken ; and so as often as the case 



-hall so happen : And if it shall happen that any one or any of the 



l *tion < tTbe the ' <VI ( l t tML ' saine K. va l Society shall die, or be amoved 



from their respective offices, that then and so often it may and shall 



he good and lawful to the President, Council, and Fellows of the 



jaid Royal Society, or to the major part of the same (of whom 



nd sw we will the President for the time being to be one), to elect and appoint 



another or others to the office or offices of those persons so deceased or 

 amoved ; and that he or they so elected and appointed may have and 

 the respective offices aforesaid during the residue of the same 

 vear, and until another or others shall have been in due manner 

 elected and sworn to those respective offices; and so as often as the 



shall so happen. 



And moreover we will, and of our special grace and of our certain 



knowledge and mere motion do grant to the aforesaid President, 



Council, and Fellows of the Roval Society aforesaid, and to their 



<>i-s, that the President and Council of the aforesaid Royal 



-x-ictv for the time being, and the major part of the same (of whom 



,e will the President for the time being to be one), may be able and 



iave power to meet together and assemble in a College or other public 



or Hall within our City of London, or in any other convenient 



's,and place within ten miles of our same City; and that they so met together 



nd assembled shall and may have full authority, power, and faculty 



from time to time to draw up, constitute, ordain, make, and establish 



such laws, statutes, acts, ordinances, and constitutions as shall seem to 



them, or to the major part of them, to be good, wholesome, useful, 



honourable, and necessary, according to their sound discretions, and to 



do and perform all other things whatsoever belonging to the afiairs 



and matters of the Royal Society aforesaid; all and singular which 



. acts, ordinances, and constitutions so to be made as 



it is aforesaid, we will, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and 



. firmly enjoining, do order and command, that they shall 



violably observed from time to time, according to the tenor and 



of the same: so nevertheless that the aforesaid laws, statutes, 



ordinances, and constitutions so to be made as it is aforesaid, and 



i" <>f them, he reasonable, and not repugnant or contrary 



to the la\\s. eiistoms, acts, or statutes of this our Realm of England. 



And further, of our more ample special grace and of our certain 

 to appoint one or more knowledge and mere motion, we have given and granted, and by these 



