or Governors, Assistants and Society for the time being, or the most part of them, or so many of them as by ordinances, laws, or rules hereafter to be therefore devised, in form aforesaid, shall be limited and appointed to name, elect, and choose other discreet person or persons of the said Society, at their liberty and pleasure, to have and use the office, room and place, offices, rooms and places, of the same person or persons so deceased.

Moreover, WE for Us, our heirs and successors, have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant unto the said Governors, Assistants, and Society of the City of London of and for the Mines Royal and to their successors, that the said Governors and Assistants that now be by these presents nominated and appointed, and the Society aforesaid, or the most part of them, and the Governor or Governors Assistants and Society of the City of London of and for The Mines Royal that hereafter shall be, or the most part of them, or so many of them as by ordinance, laws, or rules hereafter to be devised in form aforesaid shall be thought meet and convenient, shall have full power and authority from time to time at all times hereafter to keep assemblies and courts for the good rule and government of all causes, matters, and things belonging to the said Governors, Assistants, and Society of the City of London of and for the Mines Royal, and at such of the same assemblies and courts which, by laws, rules, or ordinances in that behalf, shall be made according to the purport of these presents shall be limited or appointed, to make, ordain, establish, and enact all such statutes, acts, ordinances, and rules for admitting of more persons which have or shall be appointed to have, for term of their life or lives at least, the benefit of such part of the said licenses, powers, authorities, privileges, benefits, and immunities as in these presents is hereinafter expressed, and in manner and form hereafter in these presents expressed, to

be members of the said body public, and for the expelling or dismembering of such as shall be deemed unworthy to continue members of the said body corporate, and for the good and laudable demeanour and order of the Governor and Governors of the said Society, from time to time, for ever, and of his and their Deputy or Deputies, and of the Assistants of the Society that now be, or hereafter shall be, and also for the good government and order of the said Society, and of every person of the said Corporation, and of all and singular their causes, affairs, things, and business, from time to time, for ever, and for every other thing and matter whatsoever in these Letters Patent specified, or by the same referred to be ordered or directed by laws, rules, or ordinances hereafter to be made as to them shall be thought good, meet, convenient, and necessary, and the statutes, acts, ordinances, and rules, or any of them at their will and pleasure, at any such their assemblies and courts, as by their rules, ordinances, and laws in form aforesaid, to be devised shall be limited, to alter, change, revoke, and make void in part, or in all, from time to time.

And further We do for us, our heirs and successors, as much as in us is will and grant, by these presents unto the said Governors, Assistants, and Society of the City of London of and for The Mines Royal, and to their successors, that the said Governors, Assistants, and Society that now be, by these presents, nominated and appointed, and the Governor, Assistants, and Society that hereafter shall be, or the more part of them, or so many of them as by the ordinances or rules hereafter to be therefor devised as is aforesaid, shall be limited or appointed at such of their said courts and assemblies as in form aforesaid-shall and may not only admit into the said Corporation and Society such and as many persons whether they be English or denizens, aliens or Strangers, as by the statutes, acts, ordinances, and rules aforesaid, or any

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of them, shall be prescribed or appointed, so that every such person so hereafter to be admitted shall either according to the tenor and true meaning of the statutes, acts, and ordinances, and rules in that behalf hereafter to be made as is aforesaid, be appointed at or before time of his admission to have for the term of his life at least the benefit of a quarter of one four-and-twentieth part of the licenses, powers, authorities, privileges, benefits, and immunities aforesaid, or else being admitted within one year now next ensuing, shall be appointed, as is aforesaid, at or before the time of his said admission to have, for the term of life at least, the benefit of half-a-quarter of one four-and-twentieth part of the licenses, powers, authorities, benefits, and immunities aforesaid, or else, being a Gentleman and a Freeholder of an estate of inheritance to his own use, without condition, in deed of lands and tenements within the counties of Lancaster, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, or any of them, to the clear yearly value of forty marks of lawful English money, over and above all charges, shall, according to the tenor and true meaning of the statutes, [&c.,] and shall be admitted within the space of three years now next ensuing, and not at any time after, but also shall and may minister to such person so to be admitted an oath, tending to the due performing and keeping of rules, statutes, and ordinances, in form aforesaid to be made, and a note of such admittance shall deliver in writing, under their Common Seal, to the person so admitted, which person or persons that shall fortune hereafter to be, in manner and form aforesaid, admitted into the said Society and Corporation, shall from the time of his or their admittance and oath, taken in manner and form aforesaid be free of the same; and that no person or persons who shall hereafter be admitted into the said Society in any other manner or form than is before expressed or contrary to the purport or true meaning of these presents,

shall, in anywise, be or be accounted any member of the said Society or Corporation; and that no person or persons which now be or hereafter shall be admitted into the said Society, in manner and form before expressed, and according to the purport and true meaning of these presents, and which, at the time of his admittance, hath or shall have, or is, or shall be appointed to have the benefit of one quarter of one four-andtwentieth part of the licenses, powers, authorities, privileges, benefits, or immunities aforesaid, or more, shall alien, renounce or depart with, or be otherwise according to rules, acts, and ordinances, in that behalf hereafter to be made as is aforesaid, amoved, avoided or excluded of or from his whole benefit or interest of and in the said licenses or other the premises, or of or from so much of the same as the residue of the said benefit or interest of or in the said licenses and other the premises which shall remain to him during his life at the least, shall not amount and extend to the benefit of one whole quarter of one four-and-twentieth part of the said licenses and other the premises shall anywise at any time after be, or be accounted to be any member of the said society or Corporation, and that no person or persons which now be or hereafter shall be admitted into the said Society in manner or form before expressed, and according to the purport and true meaning of these presents, and which, at the time of his admittance, hath or shall have, or is or shall be appointed to have the benefit but of one half-quarter of one fourth-and-twentieth part of the licenses, [&c.,] shall in anywise or at any time after be or be accounted to be any member of the same Society or Corporation, anything before in these presents contained, or any act, rules, or ordinance hereafter to be made to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

And also that the said Governors, Assistants, and Society that now be by these presents nominated and appointed, and

the Governors, Assistants, and Society that hereafter shall be, or the more part of them or so many of them as by ordinances hereafter to be therefore devised as is aforesaid, shall be limited or appointed at such of their said Courts and Assemblies, as in form aforesaid shall be limited may dismember and put out of the said Society and Corporation such person or persons as they shall determine unworthy to be continued a member of the said Corporation: And also that the Governors, Assistants, and Society of the City of London, of and for the Mines Royal, and their successors or as many of them as by the ordinances, laws, or rules, in form aforesaid shall be made shall be authorised, shall and may from time to time, at their pleasure, keep ordinary Courts and Assemblies for to put the statutes, acts, and rules so to be made, and remaining in force and not repugnant to anything contained in these presents in due execution, and to rule and govern according to the said statutes, acts, ordinances, or rules, every person or persons being a member or members of the body politic or Corporation aforesaid, and all the ministers, officers, laborers, and workmen of the said Governors, Assistants, and Society, and of their successors, and to execute and do full and speedy justice to them, and every of them, in all their causes, differences, variances, controversies, and complaints within any our realms, dominions, or jurisdictions among themselves to be had or moved in anywise.

And also We for Us, our heirs and successors, have granted, and by these presents of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, do grant unto the said Governors, Assistants, and Society of the City of London of and for The Mines Royal, and to their successors, that they and their successors shall and may lawfully purchase, obtain, take, have, and enjoy to them and their successors for ever, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever, which be not or shall not be