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of the Maintenance of thee poor Clergy." And further, We do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, grant unto the said "Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy," and their successors, full power and authority from time to time, as often as it shall happen that any Secretary and Treasurer to the said Governors shall die or Secretary be removed from his or their repective offices aforesaid, or whose or Treasuoffice or offices shall otherwise become void, to elect and choose, by a majority of votes of such Governors as shall be assembled in a General Court, some other fit person or persons into the office or offices of him or them who shall so die or be removed as aforesaid,

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or whose office shall otherwise become void; which person or Court. persons so to be chosen shall continue in his or their office or offices whereunto he or they shall be so elected during the pleasure of the Governors. Provided always, and we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, ordain and appoint that the said John Secretary Chamberlain and Edward Tennison herein before named and constituted to be the first and present Secretary and Treasurer to the Governors hereby incorporated and their successors, and also every other Secretary and Treasurer hereafter to be elected, shall, before their of they take upon them the execution of their said several offices, fices. respectively take their corporal oaths for the due and faithful execution of their several offices before any seven or more of the Governors aforesaid for the time being, in a General Court of the said Corporation, who are hereby authorised and required to give and administer the said oaths from time to time accordingly: And Treasurer the present Treasurer, and every future Treasurer, shall give suffi- to give security for cient security to the said Corporation for his faithful accounting faithful acfor the moneys he or they shall receive by virtue of the said office, counting. And having no doubt that not only the Governors hereinbefore named and constituted, but also a great number of other our good subjects, will be disposed to follow our example, and will with great cheerfulness and readiness contribute to the further augmentation of the maintenance of the poor Clergy, we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, authorise and empower the "Go- Governors vernors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the empowered Maintenance of the poor Clergy," to take and receive from such of gifts or esour good subjects as shall be piously inclined to contribute to the increase of this our Royal Bounty to the poor Clergy, all such voluntary gifts or subscriptions of any sum or sums of moneys, By goods, or chattels, or of or for any estate or interest in any manors, lands, tenements, rents, hereditaments, or other matters or things whatsoever, which any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, shall be willing to give, limit, appoint, or bestow for or

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towards the further augmentation of the maintenance of the poor Clergy; and further, to cause to be collected and received whatsoever shall be given, contributed, bequeathed, designed, or appointed for the purposes aforesaid, by the hands of the Treasurer to the said Corporation hereby constituted, who shall be appointed to Governors receive the same: And to the end our royal intention in the premises may be better known to our loving subjects, we do hereby require the Governors hereinbefore named and constituted, or any given of the seven or more of them, to cause public notice of this our Royal Charter, or the tenor or scope thereof, to be made in such places or by such ways and means as the said Governors, or any seven or more of them, shall think most conducible to the furtherance of the bounty and charity aforesaid. And further, We do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, give full power and authority unto the Governors aforesaid, and their successors, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, to admit into the said Corporation hereby erected and constituted, all and every such person and persons who shall be piously disposed to contribute towards the further augmentation of the maintenance of the said poor Clergy and the advancing so good a work, as the said Governors in a General Court of the said Corporation shall think fit to admit; which person or persons, when so admitted in the said Corporation, shall be and be deemed, called, and reputed members of the said Corporation, and from time to time shall and may vote and act in as ample manner and form, and have and enjoy such and the same powers, privileges, and authorities as other Governor or Governors of the said Corporation hereinbefore named may vote and act, have, enjoy, and perform To grant by virtue of these presents. And we do hereby, for us, our heirs deputaand successors, authorise and empower the Governors hereby contions (if necessary) to stituted, and their successors, or any seven or more of them (of whom any one of the Privy Council aforesaid for the time being, and any one of the Bishops aforesaid for the time being, and any one of the Judges or of the Counsel learned in the Law of us, our heirs or successors, as aforesaid, to be three at least), in case they shall find the same necessary for carrying on and perfecting the pious intentions and designs of this our Royal Charter, by instruments or writings under the seal of the said Corporation, to depute and substitute such persons as they shall think fit to entrust to take such subscriptions as aforesaid, and to collect and bring in the moneys which shall be contributed, bequeathed, designed, or appointed for the ends and purposes aforesaid, to the hands of the Treasurer to the said Governors for the time being, and to displace or discharge such substitutes or deputies, or any of them, and to appoint others in the place of them or any of them, from time to

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time, as the said Governors or any seven or more of them (of whom three or more to be such as aforesaid), shall see cause; and also to settle, establish, and appoint such cheques, comptrols, and orders as they shall think necessary or safe, for the full and due charging of the Treasurer, and also the said deputies, and all and every other person and persons whatsoever, who shall receive or be chargeable with any moneys or other profits for the said charitable use or purpose, to answer, pay, or account for the same. And we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, authorise, require, and command the said "Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy" from time to time to cause to be entered in a book to be kept for that A book to purpose, the name of the persons who shall subscribe or contribute, be kept give, advise, or appoint any moneys, or any real or personal estate, names of or other matters or things towards this charitable and good design, Benefacwith the sums of money, goods, chattels, estates, or other things by them respectively contributed, given, limited, appointed, or devised, to the end a perpetual memorial may be made of such welldisposed persons who shall become Benefactors as aforesaid, and whereby the Treasurer to the said Corporation may be charged with more certainty in his accounts. And our farther will and pleasure is, and we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, give full power and authority unto the said Edward Tennison, and the Treasurer to the said Governors for the time being, from time to surer to time, upon the receipt or receipts of any sum or sums of money quittances or other profits for the purposes aforesaid or any of them, to give upon rean acquittance or acquittances for the same, which shall be good receipts of and sufficient discharges to all intents and purposes whatsoever: And the said Treasurer for the time being, in his receipts, pay- Treasurer ments, and accounts, shall be subject to such inspection, examina- to be subtion, and comptrol as the said Governors for the time being, or any ject to inspection four or more of them (whereof such as are before appointed for and cona special quorum to be three at least) shall establish or appoint. And we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, grant and declare that these our Letters Patent, or the enrolment thereof, shall be in and by all things good, valid, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and shall be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense, and to the best advantage of and for the said Cor- the Corpoporation, as well in all our courts of record as elsewhese, notwith- ration. standing the not reciting, or not truly or fully reciting, of any Act or Acts of Parliament of or concerning the said First Fruits or Tenths hereby granted or mentioned to be granted, or any part or parcel thereof, and notwithstanding the not mentioning the true

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yearly value of the said First Fruits or Tenths, or any of them, and notwithstanding any non-recital, mis-recital, defect, incertainty, or imperfection in these our Letters Patent contained, or any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever. In witness whereof, We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the third day of November in the third year of our reign.

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THE SECOND CHARTER.

Sealed with the Great Seal of England,
5th March, 12 ANNE.

ANNE, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas, in and by our Letters Patents under our Great Seal of England, bearing date the third day of November in the third year of our reign, We did incorporate the Governors of the " Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy:" And for the better effecting our will and pleasure in the said Letters Patents declared, We did thereby, for us, our heirs and successors, authorise and command the Governors of the said Corporation thereby constituted, at their first or some other subsequent meeting or meetings, or so many of them as should then meet and be present (of whom any of the Privy Council of us, our heirs or successors, for the time being, and any one of the Bishops of England for the time being, and any one of the Judges of any of the Courts at Westminster for the time being, or one of the two eldest Serjeants at Law, or the Attorney or Solicitor General of us, our heirs or sucessors, for the time being, to be three at least), to consider of, consult, advise, agree upon, draw up, prepare, and propose in writing to us, our heirs or successors, such proper and necessary rules, methods, directions, orders, and constitutions as the said Governors, or any seven or more of them as aforesaid, for the time being, should in their discretions judge most convenient to be observed, for and towards the better rule and government of the said Corporation and the members thereof, and the receiving, accounting for, and managing all and every the revenues thereby granted, and all arrears thereof, and also for and concerning the distributing, paying, and disposing of

the same, and all other gifts and benevolences that should or might be given or bequeathed to the said Corporation for the charitable ends therein mentioned, for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor Clergy in the said Letters Patents mentioned; and such rules, methods, orders, directions, and constitutions as should be so proposed, and should be approved, altered or amended by us, our heirs or successors, and such as should be made by us, our heirs and successors, and so signified and declared by us, our heirs or successors, under our or their Great Seal, we would should be the rules, methods, directions, orders and constitutions by which the Governors of our said Corporation, and their successors, should receive, manage, govern, apply, and dispose our said Royal Bounty, and other gifts and benevolences which should or might then after be given or bequeathed to the said Corporation (where the donors thereof should not particularly direct the application thereof), to and for the increase of the maintenance of such Parsons, Vicars, Curates, and Ministers, officiating in any Church or Chapel within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, where the liturgy and rites of the Church of England as then by law established were and should be used and observed, for whom a maintenance was not sufficiently provided.

And whereas, in and by our said Letters Patents, a Secretary and a Treasurer to the said Corporation were constituted and appointed to continue in the said offices during the pleasure of the said Corporation; and upon a vacancy of either of the said offices, full powers were thereby granted to a General Court of the said Corporation to elect and choose others in their places, to continue during the pleasure of the said Corporation, as by the said Letters Patents, amongst other things therein contained relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.

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And whereas, the Governors of the said Corporation have humbly Recital of represented unto us several inconveniences arising from the quorum by the said Charter appointed, to the great delay and obstruction attending of the business thereof, by reason that by the Charter of the said the QuoCorporation, no business could be done by the Governors unless pointed by seven were present, and of them one to be a Privy Councillor, and the first one a Bishop, and one a Judge, or one of our two eldest Serjeants at Law, or our Attorney or Solicitor General; and it having happened very often that at their meetings no business could be done, there not being three such as were by the said Letters Patent so directed to make a quorum.

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And whereas, the Governors of the said Corporation have likewise that cerhumbly proposed to us, for our royal approbation, several rules and had been constitutions for the better rule and government of the said Cor- proposed.

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