IV 
Charier. 
said, by tlie name of the lioyal Agricultural Society of 
England,'' by which name they shall have perpetual suc- 
-eal. cession and a common seal, Avith full poAver and authority to 
alter, vary, break, and renew tlie same at their own dis- 
To sue and be cretion, and by the same name shall sue and be sued, im- 
plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in 
every Court of us, our heirs, and successors, and be for ever 
I'ower to iiold able and capable in the law to purchase, receive, possess, and 
-aiK &c. enjoy to them and theii- successors any goods and chattels 
whatsoever, and also be able and capable in the law (not- 
withstanding the statutes of Mortmain) to take, purchase, 
possess, hold, and enjoy to them and their successors a hall, 
and any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments what- 
soever, the yearly value of which, including the site of the 
said hall, shall not exceed in the whole the sum of Three 
Thousand Pounds, computing the same respectively at the 
rack-rent which might have been had or gotten for the same 
respectively at the time of the purchase or acquisition thereof, 
and to act in all the concerns of the said body politic and 
corporate, fur the purposes aforesaid, as fully and effectually 
to all intents, effects, constructions, and purposes whatsoever, 
as any other of our liege subjects, or any other body politic 
or corporate, in our United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, not being under any disability, might do in their 
respective concerns. 
3. And w"e do hereby gi'ant our especial licence and autho- 
rity unto all and every person and persons, bodies politic and 
corporate (otherwise competent), to grant, sell, alien, and 
convey in mortmain unto, and to the use of, the said Society 
and their successors, any messuages, lands, tenements, or 
hereditaments, not exceeding sucli annual value as aforesaid. 
4. And know ye further, that in granting this our Eoyal 
Charter to the said Eoyal Agi-icultural Society of England, 
we do hereby declare it to be our full and entire will and 
pleasure that we extend our Eoyal protection to its national 
