AND alfo by the fame Name to have, To bold hold, purchase, receive, take, poffefs, and Lands, &c. enjoy; and alfo to give, grant, demife, alien, affign, and difpofe Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and Goods, and Chattels, or any of them, and to do and execute all, and fingular, other Thing and Things whatsoever.

AND that they and their Succeffors by To plead ana the fame Name may plead, and be implead-be impleaded. ed, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all, or any whatsoever Court or Courts, Place or Places, Jurifdiction or Jurifdictions, and before whatfoever Judge, Judges, and Justices, and other Perfons and Officers, in all and fingular Actions and Plaints, Pleas,Suits, Quarrels, Causes, and Demands whatsoever, of -whatfoever Kind, Nature, Quality, or Sort, in fuch Manner and Form, and by all thofe Ways and Means, and to fuch End and Purpose, as any other our Liege People of this our Realm of England, being Perfons able and capable in Deed or Law, may, or can have, hold, purchase, receive, poffefs, enjoy, retain, give, grant, demife, alien, affign, difpofe, plead, and be impleaded, anfwer and be anfwered,

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To have,

fwered, defend and be defended, or do permit and execute.

AND that the faid Mafter, Wardens, break and al- and Affiftants, and their Succeffors, or ter their Com-the greater Part of them (whereof the

n-Seal.

mon

To have a
Mafter.

faid Master for the Time being to be always one) may make or cause to be made, and have for themselves a Common-Seal, to serve for all the Causes, Business, and Occafions of them and their Succeffors in that Corporation: And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Mafter, Wardens, and Affiftants, and their Succeffors, the fame Seal to break again, and from time to time, at their Will and Pleasure, to alter, change, and make new, when, and as often as to them, or the greater Part of them (whereof the Mafter, or the Mafter's Deputy for the time being to be always one) fhall feem

convenient.

AND further, We will, and by these Prefents, for Us, our Heirs, and Succeffors, do ordain, That there fhall be from henceforth for ever, One of the said Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, to be elected and appointed, in fuch Form, as hereafter in thefe Prefents touching the

fame

fame is expreffed, which shall be called the Master of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood for the Time being.

AND that there fhall be alfo from Four Wardens henceforth for ever, Four of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood (to be elected and appointed, in fuch Form as hereafter in these Presents touching the fame is likewife expreffed) which fhall be called the Wardens of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood for the time being.

AND alfo that there fhall be from Eight Alihenceforth for ever, Eight of the said fants. Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, (to be elected and appointed in fuch Form, as hereafter in these Presents touching the fame is also expreffed) which fhall be called the Affiftants of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, for the time being.

AND alfo there fhall be from hence-Eighteen Etforth for ever, Eighteen (befides the faid der Brethren. Mafter, Wardens, and Affiftants for the time being) who are and fhall be alfo Elder Brethren of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, (to be elected and

appointed

And a Clerk.

Their first
Maßter.

appointed in fuch manner as hereafter in these Presents touching the fame is alfo expreffed) which fhall be called the Elder Brethren of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, for the Time being.

AND alfo that there fhall be from henceforth for ever, one Perfon, who fhall be called the Clerk of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood.

AND for the better Execution and Accomplishment of this our Will and Grant in that behalf, We have affigned, nominated, conftituted, and made, and by these Presents, for Us, our Heirs, and Succeffors, do affign, nominate, conftitute, and make our trufty and well-beloved Samuel Pepys, Efquire, Secretary of our Admiralty of England, to be the first and present Master of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, to continue in the faid Office or Place by himself, or his fufficiHis Deputy ent Deputy, (the faid Deputy to be always and how cho- elected, chofen, and fworn by the Wardens, Affiftants, and Elder Brethren of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, or the more part of them, by themselves, or their faid Deputies as aforefaid, where

Sen.

of

of the Wardens, or Wardens Deputy to be always fome, in Manner and Form, as hereafter in thefe Prefents touching the fame fhall be limited and appointed) from henceforth until the Morrow after DeterminaTrinity-Sunday, commonly called Trinity-tion of his Office. Monday, now next coming; and fo from thence forward in default of a new Election or Choice then to be made of another Master, until himself, or fome other of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, fhall in due manner, according to the Intent and true Meaning of thefe Prefents, be chofen and fworn unto the faid Office or Place of Mafter, according to the Ordinances and Provifions hereafter in these Presents touching the fame expreffed and declared, if the faid Samuel Pepys fhall fo long live.

AND alfo We have affigned, nomi- The four firft nated, constituted, and made, and by Wardens. these Presents, for Us, our Heirs, and Succeffors, do affign, nominate, conftitute, and make Captain John Nichols, Captain Henry Mudd, Captain Nicholas Kerrington, and Captain William Green, to be the four first and prefent Wardens of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, to continue in the faid Office

or