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authority of experiments the sciences of natural things and of 

 useful arts, to the glory of God the Creator, and the advantage of 

 the human race), by the same name of The President, Council, and 

 Follows of the Royal Society of London for promoting Natural 

 Knowledge, may and shall be in all future times persons able and Capacity to purchase : 

 capable in law to have, acquire, receive, and possess hinds [and] 

 tenements, meadows, feedings, pastures, liberties, privileges, fran- 

 chises, jurisdictions, and hereditaments whatsoever to them and their 

 successors in fee and perpetuity, or for term of life, lives, or years, 

 or otherwise in whatsoever manner, and also goods and chattels, and 

 all other things, of whatsoever kind, nature, sort, or quality they 

 may be (the Statute concerning alienation in mortmain notwithstand- 

 ing); and also to give, grant, [demise,] and assign the same lands, and to grant; 

 tenements, and hereditaments, goods and chattels, and to do and 

 execute all acts and things necessary of and concerning the same, 

 by the name aforesaid ; And that by the name of The President, 

 Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for promoting 

 Natural Knowledge aforesaid, they may henceforth for ever be able 

 and have power to plead and be impleaded, to answer and be an- to sue and be sued ; 

 swered, to defend and be defended, in whatsoever Courts and places, 

 and before whatsoever Judges, Justices, and other persons and officers 

 of us, our heirs, and successors, in all and singular actions, both real 

 and personal, pleas, suits, plaints, causes, matters, things, and demands 

 whatsoever, of whatsoever kind, nature, or sort they may or shall be, 

 in the same manner and form as any of our lieges within this our 

 Realm of England, being persons able and capable in law, or as any 

 body corporate or politic within this our Realm of England, may 

 be able and have power to have, acquire, receive, possess, give, and 

 grant, to plead and be impleaded, to answer and be answered, to 

 defend or be defended ; And that the same President, Council, and 

 Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid and their successors for ever 

 may have a Common Seal, to serve for transacting all causes and and to have a Com- 

 affairs whatsoever of them and their successors ; and that it may pleasure. ' 

 and shall be good and lawful to the same President, Council, and 

 Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid, and to their successors for 

 the time being, to break, change, and make anew that Seal from 

 time to time, as it shall seem most expedient to them. 



We give and grant moreover by these presents to the President, Grant of Arms, vi*. 

 Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid, and to their giies three Lions of 

 successors for ever, in testimony of our royal favour towards them, and of n f crest, and Sup- 

 of our peculiar esteem for them, to the present and future ages, these porters, 

 following blazons of honour, that is to say : in the dexter corner of a 

 silver shield our three Lions of England, and for Crest a helm adorned 



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