xxxvi 
CHARTEU. 
J\ame. said, by tlie name of the " Royal AgTicultural Society of 
England," by ■\vliicli name tliey shall have perpetual suc- 
Seal. cession and a common seal, -with full power and authority to 
alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their own dis- 
T(i 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 
Tower to hold able and capable in the law to purchase, receive, possess, and 
enjoy to them and their successors any goods and chattels 
whatsoever, and also be alilo and capable in the law (not- 
withstanding the statutes of Mortmain) to take, purchase, 
possess, bold, 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 liall, shall not exceed in the whole the sum of Thi-ee 
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, for 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 we do hereby grant 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 such annual value as aforesaid. 
4. And know ye further, that in gi'anting this our Royal 
C'harter to the said Royal Agi-icultural Society of England, 
we do hereby declare it to be our full and entii-e will and 
pleasm-e that we extend our Royal protection to its national 
