TRANSLATION OF SECOND CHARTER 87 



the Royal Society aforesaid, before he be admitted to that office, shall 



take a corporal oath before the Council of the same Royal Society, or 



any seven or more of them, rightly, well, and faithfully to execute 



that office in all things touching that office, according to the form 



and effect of the aforesaid oath, mutatis mutandis (to which same 



Council, or to any seven or more of them, we give and grant by these 



presents for us, our heirs, and successors full power and authority to 



administer the oath aforesaid from time to time, as often as it shall be 



needful to elect a President); and that after having so taken such 



oath, as it is aforesaid, he may be able and have power to execute the 



office of President of the Royal Society aforesaid until the feast of 



St. Andrew the Apostle thereafter next following ; And if it shall 



happen that the President of the Royal Society for the time being, at On the Death or Amo- 



any time, so long as he shall be in the office of President of the same ori *' 



Royal Society, shall die, retire, or be amoved from his office, that 



then and so often it may and shall be good and lawful to the Council eet . to choose a 



J President out of the 



of the Royal Society aforesaid, and to their successors for ever, or to Council : and the 



any eleven or more of them, to assemble or meet for the election of fhem^or the'major 

 one of the aforesaid number of the Council aforesaid as President of the 



Royal Society aforesaid ; and that he who shall have been elected and 



sworn by the Council aforesaid, or by the aforesaid eleven or more, or another shall be 



., . ,, p . , , .. / .j elected and sworn. 



by the major part of the aforesaid eleven or more, as it is aforesaid, 



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 above specified ; 

 and so as often as the case shall so happen. 



And further we will, that whenever it shall happen that any one On the Death, Amo- 

 or any of the Council of the Royal Society aforesaid for the time any of the Council, 

 being shall die, or be amoved from that office, or retire (which same 

 [members] of the Council of the Royal Society aforesaid, and every 

 one of them, we will to be amovable for misbehaviour or any other tfe President, Coun- 

 reasonable cause, at the good pleasure of the President and of the any twenty-one or 

 rest of the Council aforesaid, of whom we will the President for the whom? &c.VoVthe 

 time being, or his Deputy, to be one, or of the major part of J^S^w 

 the same), that then and so often it may and shall be good and may supply the va- 



cancy from amongst 



lawful to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal the Fellows ; and the 

 Society aforesaid, and to their successors for ever, or to any twenty- 



one or more of the same (of whom we will the President of the 

 Royal Society aforesaid for the time being, or his Deputy, to be one), 

 or to the major part of the aforesaid twenty-one or more, to elected 

 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 



