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upon tin- holv Gospels of God, in the form and effect in our same 

 ' tf cut specified, by such Deputy, well and faithfully to execute 

 all ,-md singular tilings which pertain to the office of President, before 

 the aforesaid Council of the aforesaid Royal Society, or any seven or 

 more of them ; and so as often as the case shall so happen ; to which 

 same Council, or to any seven or more of them, for the time being, 

 ive and granted, by our same Letters Patent, power and authority 

 to administer the oath aforesaid, as often as the case shall so happen, 

 without procuring or obtaining a writ, commission, or further warrant 

 in that behalf from us, our heirs, and successors ; And that they and 

 their successors, or any nine or more of them (of whom we will the 

 President for the time being, or his Deputy, to be always one), may 

 lawfully be able to make and have assemblies and meetings of them- 

 selves for the examination and investigation of experiments and of 

 natural things, and for other affairs belonging to the Society afore- 

 said, as often as and whenever it shall be needful, in a College or Hall 

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

 convenient place within ten miles from our same City : And whereas 

 ethat divers and various matters, powers, liberties, and privileges granted 

 JJJS?! ar _ in our same Letters Patent to the aforesaid President, Council, and 



Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid, by virtue of those our Letters 

 indi, or Patent, are not to be exercised, done, performed, or executed, unless 



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fhnt by the aforesaid President and Council, or any seven or more of them : 

 And whereas further, by our aforesaid Letters Patent, for us, our 

 heirs, and successors we gave and granted to the aforesaid President 

 and Council of the aforesaid Royal Society, and to their successors 

 tor ever, or to any twenty-one or more of them (of whom we will the 

 President for the time being, or his Deputy, to be always one), or to 

 the major part of the aforesaid twenty-one or more, full power and 

 authority from time to time to elect, nominate, and appoint one or 

 more Typographers or Printers, and Chalcographers or Engravers, 

 and to grant to him or them, by a writing sealed with the Common 

 1 of the aforesaid Royal Society, and signed by the hand of the 

 President for the time being, faculty to print such things, matters, 

 and affairs touching or concerning the aforesaid Royal Society as 

 '11 be committed to the aforesaid Typographer or Printer, Chal- 

 irapher or Kngraver, or Typographers or Printers, Chalcographers 

 "i I 'in time to time, by the President and Council of the 



aforesaid Royal Society, or any seven or more of them (of whom we 

 will the President for the time being, or his Deputy, to be one), 

 or by the major part of the aforesaid seven or more; their corporal 

 oaths to be first taken, before they be admitted to exercise their 

 'fi' ' the President and Council for the time being, or any 



