Oaths of the
Professors

give and grant to the Vice Chancellor of our university aforesaid, for the time being, full power and authority, by virtue of these presents, to administer such oath without any other warrant or authority from us, our heirs, or successors, to be had or obtained for that purpose.

AND we do also by these presents, for us, our heirs, and Fellows. and successors, ordain, constitute, and appoint, that as well the Professors and Fellows of the said college herein beforenamed, as all others to be named and elected Professor or Professors, and Fellow or Fellows of the said college for the time being, shall each and every of them, before they are respectively admitted to the exercise and execution of the office or offices of Professor or Professors, Fellow or Fellows, of the aforesaid college, take a corporal oath upon the Holy Evangelists, well and faithfully to execute the office or offices of Professor or Professors, Fellow or Fellows, of the said college; and shall also take the oaths in that behalf, which by the law and statutes of this our realm, or by the statutes or ordinances of our said university, are or shall be required by all Professors and Fellows of colleges, to be taken before the Master of the said college for the time

being, or the Vice Chancellor of our said university for the time being; and to which said Master of the said college, and Vice Chancellor of our said university, for the time being, we have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, do give and grant full power and authority to administer such oath, as aforesaid, to the Professors and Fellows of the said college, without further warrant in that behalf to be had or obtained.

hold in

mortmain.

AND we further, of our more especial grace, certain Licence to knowledge, and mere motion, HAVE given and granted, and by these presents Do, for us, our heirs, and successors, give and grant our especial licence, power, and authority, to the heirs at law of the said Sir George Downing, deceased, or such other person or persons as are, or may be, legally seized or possessed of the freehold, copyhold, and leasehold, manors, advowsons, messuages, lands, rents, tenements, and hereditaments, so given and devised by the will of the said Sir George Downing, as aforesaid, to grant, convey, 'surrender, and assign the same, to the Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars of the said college; AND ALSO to and for the said Sir George Cornewall, and Dame Catherine his wife,

Mary Goate, Francis Annesley, and William Henry Scourfield, to grant, convey, and assign the said piece of ground, called Doll's Close, unto, or in trust for, the Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars, of the college aforesaid, and their successors, To HAVE AND TO HOLD all such manors, messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, to the said Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars, and their successors for ever, any thing in any statute or statutes of mortmain contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding; AND ALSO full licence, power, and authority, to and for any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, to give, grant, bargain, sell, assign, and convey, any other manors, rectories, advowsons, lands, tenements, rents, and hereditaments, of what nature or quality soever, not exceeding in the whole the clear yearly value of £.1500 above all taxes, charges, and reprizes, or any goods, chattles, gifts, or benefactions whatsoever, to the said Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars, of the said college, for the time being, and their successors, To HAVE, HOLD, AND ENJOY the same, to the said Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars, and their successors, for ever, without any licence of alienation in mortmain, and

without any other letters patent, power, or authority, of or from us, our heirs or successors, to be had or obtained, any law or statute made to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

AND we do hereby reserve to us, our heirs, and successors, all visitorial power and authority over the said college.

AND we do also for us, our heirs and successors, grant and declare that these our letters patent, or the enrolments, or exemplifications thereof, shall be in all things good, firm, valid, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning of the same; and shall be taken, construed, and adjudged, in all our courts or elsewhere, in the most favorable and beneficial sense, and for the best advantage of the said college, any mis-recital, non-recital, omission, defect, imperfection, matter, or thing whatsoever, notwithstanding. AND THAT these presents shall be in due manner made, and sealed with our great seal of Great Britain, without fine or fee, great or small, to us, in our

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hanaper, or elsewhere, to our use, any ways to be rendered, paid, or made.

AND LASTLY, We do hereby promise and declare, for us, our heirs, and successors, that we and they shall, and will, at all times hereafter, give and grant to the aforesaid Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars, and their successors, such other reasonable powers and authorities as may be necessary for the better government thereof, and the more effectual execution of the premises.

IN WITNESS whereof we have caused these, our letters, to be made patent. WITNESS ourself, at Westminster, the twenty-second day of September, in the fortieth year of our reign.

Printed at the Philanthropic Reform, St. George's Fields, by J. Richardson, No. 4, Lambeth Road Southwark.]

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