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and have power to purchase, receive, and possess, any Goods Powertopur- 

 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 Rack Rent of One Thousand Pounds Land of the 

 in the whole, without incurring the penalties or forfeitures 0^000"° 

 of the Statutes of Mortmain, or any of them ; and by the 

 name aforesaid to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, To sue and 

 answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in all b2SUed- 

 Courts, and places whatsoever, of Us, Our Heirs, and Suc- 

 cessors, in all Actions, Suits, Causes, and Things, whatsoever ; 

 and to act and do, in all things relating to the said Corpora- 

 tion, in as ample manner and form as any other our Liege 

 Subjects, being Persons able and capable in the Law, or any 

 other Body Politic or Corporate, in Our said United King- 

 dom of Great Britain and Ireland, may or can act or do ; 

 And also to have and to use a Common Seal, and the same Common 

 to change and alter from time to time as they shall think fit. 

 And We do hereby declare and grant that there shall be an Number of 

 indefinite number of Fellows of the said Society ; and that ^|Jg Vsinde " 

 they the said George, Earl of Dartmouth ; Edward, Earl FirstFeiiows 

 Powis ; Brownlow, Lord Bishop of Winchester ; John, Lord 

 Selsey; Charles Greville, Sir Joseph Banks, William Town- 

 send Aiton, John Elliot, Thomas Andrew Knight, Charles 

 Miller, Richard Anthony Salisbury, John Trevelyan, James 

 Dickson, Thomas Hoy, and William Smith, shall be the first 

 Fellows of the said Society, and that any five or more of Any five or 

 them, all having been first duly summoned to attend the m?^ 

 Meetings of the said Fellows, shall and may, on or before beforethel5t 



