the said Sir George Cornewall, and Dame Catherine his wife, Mary Goate, Francis Annesley, and William Henry Scourfield, their heirs and assigns (subject to the lease thereof, granted to the said Thomas Thackeray for the term of 999 years, from Lady-day 1790, by indenture bearing date the 20th day of May 1790), in trust for the said intended college, to be called Downing College, and to be conveyed and disposed of as the Master, Professors, and Fellows of the said college shall direct. And by Indenture of Assignment, bearing date the said 15th day of July 1800, and made between the said Thomas Thackeray, of the one part, and the said Sir George Cornewall, and Dame Catherine his wife, Mary Goate, Francis Annesley, and William Henry Scourfield, of the other part, the said Thomas Thackeray did, for the considerations therein-mentioned, assign to the said Sir George Cornewall, and Dame Catherine his wife, Mary Goate, Francis Annesley, and William Henry Scourfield, the said piece of ground, called Doll's Close, with the appurtenances; to hold the same unto the said Sir George Cornewall, and Dame Catherine his wife, Mary Goate, Francis Annesley, and William Henry Scourfield, their executors, administrators, and assigns, for the

residue of the said term of 999 years, In trust for the said intended college, to be called Downing College, and to be assigned and disposed of as the Master, Professors, and Fellows, of the said college shall direct.

AND WHEREAS the said Sir George Cornewall, and Plan of Dame Catherine his wife, Mary Goate, Francis Annesley,

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prepared and

approved

pursuant to

and William Henry Scourfield, have prepared and submitted to the right reverend the present Lords Archbishops the Will. of Canterbury and York, and the Masters of St. John's College and Clare Hall, in our said university of Cambridge, the persons named and appointed in and by the said will of the said testator Sir George Downing for that purpose, a scheme or plan for the foundation of the said intended college, which scheme or plan hath been approved by the said Lords Archbishops, and the said Masters of the said colleges, and hath been also submitted to and approved by our said Lord High Chancellor.

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AND WHEREAS the said Sir George Cornewall, and Application Dame Catherine his wife, Mary Goate, Francis Annesley, ter. and William Henry Scourfield, did, on or about the third day C

of September 1798, present their humble petition untó us, praying that we would be graciously pleased to grant our royal charter for founding and incorporating a college within our university of Cambridge, to be called Downing College, according to the scheme or plan so approved as aforesaid, and to the said petition annexed, or such other as to us should seem meet; and that the said college might be made part of our said university of Cambridge, and be annexed thereto; and that we would also be pleased to grant unto the head, or governor, and other members of the said college, and their successors, our royal licence to hold in mortmain the several freehold and leasehold manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, given and devised by the said testator Sir George Downing, for the use of the said college; and also such piece of ground as should be purchased for the erecting and building such college, pursuant to the said testator's will, together with the buildings which should be thereon erected; and also to purchase and hold in mortmain any other lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of the yearly value of £.1500 above all charges and reprizes; and that we would likewise be pleased to grant unto such head, or governor, and other members, and their

successors, such other privileges and advantages as to us should seem meet.

is established.

We having taken the premises into our royal conside- The College ration, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have willed, ordained, constituted, established, declared, and appointed, and by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, Do will, ordain, constitutc, establish, declare, and appoint, that in and upon the said piece of ground, called Doll's Close, so purchased by the heirs at law of the said testator Sir George Downing, as aforesaid, there shall and may be erected and established one perpetual College for students in law, physic, and other useful arts and learning, which college shall be called by the name of DOWNING COLLEGE, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, and shall consist of one Master, two Professors (that is to say) a Professor of the Laws of England, and a Professor of Medicine, and sixteen Fellows, two of whom shall be in holy orders, and the rest shall be laymen; and of such a number of Scholars as shall hereafter be agreed on and settled by the statutes of the said college.

To be a corporate body with the usual inci

dents.

AND we do by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, will, declare, and establish, that the Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars of the said college, and their successors for ever, shall be one distinct and separate body politic and corporate, in deed and in name, by the name and stile of The Master, Professors, Fellows and Scholars, of Downing College, in the University of Cambridge; and that by the same name they shall have perpetual succession and a common seal; and that they and their successors shall, from time to time, have full power to break, alter, make new, or change, such common seal at their will and pleasure, and as shall be found expedient; AND THAT by the same name the said Master, Professors, Fellows and Scholars, and their successors, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, shall be a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, and be able and capable to have, take, receive, hold, possess, enjoy, and retain; and we do hereby, for us, our heirs, and successors, give and grant full authority, and free licence, to them and their successors, by the name aforesaid, notwithstanding any statute or statutes of mortmain, to have, take, receive, hold, possess, enjoy, and retain, to and for the use of the said college, all and every the freehold, copyhold, and leasehold manors, advowsons, messuages, lands, rents, tenements, here