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OF

HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL CHARTER

FOR

FOUNDING AND INCORPORATING

DOWNING COLLEGE,

IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

DATED 22D OF SEPTEMBER, 40TH GEORGE III.

London:

Printed at the PHILANTHROPIC REFORM, St. George's Fields,

by J. Richardson, No. 4, Lambeth Road, Southwark.

1800.

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George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great

Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of

the Faith and so forth. To all to whom these

Presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS Sir George Downing, late of Gamlingay- Will of the

park, in the county of Cambridge, Bart. deceased, by his last will and testament, bearing date on or about the 20th day of December, which was in the year of our Lord, 1717, gave and devised all and singular, his manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments, both freehold and copyhold, as well as leasehold, for years, in the several counties of Cambridge, Bedford, and Suffolk and elsewhere, with their appurtenances, unto certain trustees therein named, all of whom afterwards died in the life-time of the said testator; To hold all such of the said manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments, whereof the said testator was seised of any estate of inheritance or freehold, unto the said trustees and their heirs,

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To certain uses, which have since determined, or by subsequent events become incapable of taking effect, and from and after the determination thereof and subject thereto, To the use and behoof of the said trustees and their heirs, In trust, that they should, as soon as might be, by, with, and out of the rents, issues, and profits of the premises, buy and purchase the inheritance and fee simple of some piece of ground, lying and being within the town of Cambridge, proper and convenient for the erecting and building a college; and thereon should erect and build all such houses, edifices and buildings as should be fit and requisite for that purpose, which college should be called by the name of DOWNING COLLEGE; and his will was, that a charter royal should be sued for and obtained for the founding such college, and incorporating a body collegiate by that name, in and within the university of Cambridge, which college or collegiate body, should consist of such head or governor, and of such fellows, scholars, members and other persons for the time being, and should be maintained, governed and ordered by such laws, rules, and orders, and in such manner, and therein should be professed and taught such useful learning, as his said trustees, or their heirs, by and with the consent

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