I Y.— ORIGINAL CHARTER OF THE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



object of 

 the Society. 



Incorpora- 

 tion. 



Power to 

 purcbiiae 

 Goods and 

 Lauds. 



To sue and 

 be sued. 



Gboege the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, to all to whom these 

 presents shall come. Greeting : Whereas several of our loving Subjects are 

 desh-ons of forming a Society for the Improvement of Horticulture in all its 

 branches, ornamental as well as useful, and having subscribed considerable 

 sums of money for that purpose, have humbly besought us to grant imto them 

 and such other persons as shall be approved and elected as hereinafter is 

 mentioned, Our Eoyal Charter of Incoi'poration for the pm-poses aforesaid : 



Know Ye, that We, beiiig desirous to promote such improvement, have, of 

 our especial grace, cei'tain knowledge, and mere motion. Given and Granted, 

 and we do hereby Give and Grant, that Our Right Trusty and Wellbeloved 

 Cousin and Counsellor George Earl of Dartmouth, Knight of the Most Noble 

 Order of the Garter, Our Eight Trusty and Wellbeloved Cousin and Coun- 

 sellor Edward Earl Powis, our Eight Reverend and Wellbeloved Father in 

 God Brownlow Lord Bishop of Winchester, Our Eight Trusty and Well- 

 beloved John Lord Selsey, Our Eight Trusty and Wellbeloved Counsellor 

 Charles Greville, Our Eight Trusty and Wellbeloved Counsellor Sir Joseph 

 Banks, Baronet and Knight of the Most Honom'able Order of the Bath, Our 

 Trusty and Wellbeloved William Townsend Aiton, John Elliot, Thomas 

 Andrew Knight, Charles Miller, Eichard Anthony Salisbmy, and John 

 Trevelyan, Esquires, and James Dickson, Thomas Hoy, and William Smith, 

 Gardeners, and such others as shall fi-om time to time be appointed and 

 elected in the manner hereinafter directed, and their Successors, be and shall 

 for ever hereafter continue to be, by virtue of these Presents, one Body 

 Politic and Coiijorate, by the name of " The Hobtioultueal Society of 

 London ; " and them and their Successors, for the purjjoses aforesaid. We 

 do hereby constitute and declare to be one Body Politic and Coi'porate, 

 and by the same name to have perpetual Succession, and for ever hereafter to 

 be Persons able and capable in the Law, and have power to purchase, receive, 

 and possess any Goods and Chattels whatsoever, and (notwithstanding the 

 Statutes of Mortmain), to purchase, hold, and enjoy, to them and their 

 Successors, any Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments whatsoever, not 

 exceeding, at the time or times of purchasing such Lands, Tenements, and 

 Hereditaments respectively, the yearly value at a Eack Eent of One Thousand 

 Pounds in the whole, without incuning the penalties or forfeitures of the 

 Statutes of Mortmain, or any of them : and by the name aforesaid to sue and 



