Seal of the Person or Persons transferring the same attested by two or more credible Witnesses and entred within Twenty Days after the Sealing thereof in a Book or Books to be for that purpose kept in the said Exchequer by the Remembrancer for the time being for the Entry whereof nothing shall be paid which Entry the said Remembrancer is hereby required upon Request to make Words of Commission And that every such Subscriber shall at the time of such Subscription pay or cause to be paid unto the said Commissioners one Fourth Part of his or her Subscription and in Default thereof such Subscriptions shall be void and that the Residue of the said Subscription Moneys shall be paid into the Receipt of our Exchequer as we shall direct before the First Day of January One thousand six hundred ninety six and in Default of such Payments that then the Fourth Part first paid as aforesaid shall be forfeited to and for the Benefit of Us Our Heirs and Successors Now know ye That we being resolved and determined in case the said Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds or one Moiety thereof shall be Subscribed on or before the First Day of August One thousand six hundred ninety six to Grant and pass our Royal Charter or Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England for Erecting and Establishing a Corporation or Body Politick to be called by the Name aforesaid and to have a perpetual Succession with such Powers and Priviledges as are prescribed by the said Act and such others as shall be Lawful and Reasonable for Us to give and grant as well for the publick Good as for Our own Service subject nevertheless to the Proviso's Restrictions and Rules in the said Act of Parliament contained and reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Abilities Faithfulness and Prudent Circumspections in and for the performance of so much of this Affair as shall be committed to your Care and Charge have Nominated Constituted Authorized and Appointed and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do Nominate Constitute Authorize and do Appoint you the said Thomas Lord Jermyn Thomas Lord Coningsby Lord James Russell Goodwin Wharton Henry Pagett Robert Cecill Sydney Wortley alias Mountagu Charles Mountagu Sir William Langham Sir Walter Young Sir Henry Ashurst Sir Richard Atkins Sir Richard Blackham Sir Thomas Pope Blount Sir Josiah Child Sir Robert Cotton Sir Heale Hooke Sir Henry Hobart Sir John Mordant Sir Walter St. Johns Sir Basil Dixwell Sir Peter Paravacine Sir Humphery Edwin Sir Rowland Aynsworth Sir Owen Buckingham Sir John Banks Sir Benjamin Bathurst Sir Edward Clarke Sir Thomas Cooke Sir Samuel Dashwood Sir Thomas Davall Sir John Eyles Sir William Forester Sir John Fleet Sir Edward Farmer Sir Joseph Herne Sir Christopher Hales Sir Robert Jefferies Sir Thomas Lane Sir John Moore Sir Tho. Mompesson Sir William Pritchard Sir Gabriel Roberts Sir Leonard Robinson Sir Thomas Stamp Sir Jeremy Sambrooke Sir Joseph Tyley Sir Peter Vandeputt Sir Thomas Meares Sir Edward Wills Sir Thomas Rawlinson Sir Edmond Wiseman Sir Francis Child Sir Charles Hedges Sir Peter Daniel Sir Benjamin Newland Sir Henry Johnson Sir Godfrey Copley Robert Austin Senior Robert Austin Junior John Archer John Arnold Mordecai Abbot William Aspin John Asgil Thomas Andrews Gabriel Armiger Jonathan Andrews John Aviolle Isaac Aviolle John Billers James Ball Robert Byerly David d' Burry James Boddington John Brown Arthur Bailey Theophilus Boughey John Scroop John Borrett George Bohum Robert Brown Robert Breedon Nicholas Barbon James des Boverie John Bellamy John Briscot John Browning Peter Burrel Tho. Boone Francis Boynton William Baber Ralph Backnal George Boddington John Blacklar Francis Bazelin David de la Bretonniere Nicholas Carey Arthur Chamney William Coward Richard Carey Awnsham Churchill Stephen Cooke Francis Chapman Thomas Colby Senior Thomas Compere Anthony Gracherode John Churchill John Dutton Colt William Childe Thomas Colson John Conyers Thomas Coleby Junior Sir Pary Cust James Dewy John Delow Francis Dashwood Charles Dubois Peter Delaune Paul d'Aranda Richard Dove Abraham Dolins Paul Darby George Doddington Alvarez Mendez d'Costa William Cockram John Cook John Deagle Paul Docminique Richard Dalton Anthony Mendez d'Costa John Mendez d'Costa Jacob de Lilliers Adam de Cardonnel Dennis Dutry John Duboys Robert Dorrel Paul Dufoure Peter Deline Francis Eyles Barrington Eyton John Evans William East Henry Eyre William Ettrick Martin Folkes William Faulkner Andrew Franklyn Samuel Foot Junior Christopher Fouler Thomas Fobey Senior Philip Foley Thomas Foley Junior William Fenwick George Furnace Peter Fanshaw Samuel Fuller Edward Fenwick Israel Feilding Mark Huggetan Serjeant Tho. Goodin Tho. Glover Thomas Guy Thomas Gunstone James Green Gabriel Glover Bartholo Gracedieu Francis Gosfright Alwin Garraway Thomas Gratwick Dr. William Gibbons Benjamin Giles George Gresham Thomas Hodges Thomas Hall Peter Henriques Senior Edmond Harrison Nathaniel Herne Robert Heysham Joseph Hoskinstiles Beddingfield Higham John Hanger Edward Haistwell Thomas Hancock Dr. Edward Hulse Lyonel Herne Frederick Herne Thomas Harley William Hewer Charles Hooper Vrban Hall Nathaniel Horneby George Hawes Richard Harnage Edward Harley James Hooper Charles Herle Hercules Horsey Ralph Hough Luke Hodges Ebenezer Hall John Hall Daniel Haies Robert Henly John Harvey James Hallet Michael Hubart Jeffery Jefferies John Jefferies George Juce Henry Ireton John Jackson Peter Henriques Junior Charles Hargrave Henry Kiffin Maurice Kendal Samuel Keckwich William Lowndes Robert Leydal John Love James Lever John Lethullier Robert Lancashire Edward Lloyd Joseph Lane Dr. Fisher Littleton Thomas Lucas Nehemiah Lyde Peter Henriques Leferrer Solomon d'Medina John Morris Nicholas Mors Junior Samuel Moyer Samuel Mitchel Ralph Marshal John Martyn William Mead Thomas Mulso Arthur Moore William Milman Richard Mead James Misson Charles Middleton Anthony Meeke Nicholas Martin Charles Mason William Nicholas Thomas Nisbet Francis Negus Hugh North Michael Noble Richard Noys Thomas Owen Walter Overbury Samuel Onely Senior Samuel Powel Joseph Paice John Paschall John Pearson Colonel John Perry Richard Petty John Powell George Paske John Packer Col. Pilkinton Thomas Papillon Bartholowew Phillibert Tho. Radbord Gabriel Roberts Henry Renew Peter Renew Edward Richier Edward Ruge Richard Rider Samuel Read Nicholas Richards Thomas Rawlins John Roydhouse Dr. Radcliffe Thomas Robinson Sir Isaac Rebow Jacob Reynardon Stephen Signiorett Arthur Shellett Thomas Skinner Dr. William Stokeham John Sherbrooke John Smith John Sikes John Skinner Arnold Squibb Edward Solloway Ebenezer Sadler Thomas Slater Thomas Sutton John Smith Thomas Swinbourne Samuel Sheppard William Sheppard William Sedgwick Robert Sanderson John Schoppins Samuel Sale Robert Stephens Perry Slaughter Francis Tussen Junior Richard Tilden John Trenchard Richard Trevor Major General Trelawny Colonel Henry Trelawny Joseph Thompson Frederick Tilney Thomas Trench Robert Tracy John Tulley Francis Terrence Thomas Taylor Dalby Thomas Nicholas Tourton Mr. Prothonotary Tempest Robert Thompson John Du Tilleux Constantine Vernatti Henry Vincent Leonard Wessell Joseph Woolfe William Withers Samuel Wickens Solloway Winnington John Weston Thomas
with Sixteen or more of the Trustees to be constituted by the said Charter of Incorporation shall from time to time Direct Limit or Appoint So as a full Second Fourth part of all and every the Sum and Sums of Money to be Subscribed as aforesaid be entirely paid and brought into the said Receipt of Exchequer on on or before the said first day of October now next ensuing And so as that the remaining two fourth parts to compleat the whole Account of the said Subscriptions be paid or brought into the said Receipt of Exchequer before the said first day of January now next ensuing as aforesaid How the Residue shall be paid in case there be no Incorporation And in case so much as a Moiety of the said Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds or any greater Sum shall not be Subscribed on or before the first day of August now next ensuing then all the Moneys which shall be Subscribed as aforesaid the said first fourth part only excepted shall be paid and brought into the said Receipt of Exchequer by the respective Subscribers of the same his her or their Executors Administrators Successors or Assignes at or before the respective days or times and in such proportions as are herein before limited and appointed for the payment of the last three fourth parts in case five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds or a Moiety or any greater part thereof shall be Subscribed as aforesaid and according to the Tenor and true meaning of the said Act. Talleys struck for the Payments And upon every or any such Payment or Payments so to be made of all or any the Moneys arising by or upon the said Subscriptions the First Fourth Part only excepted touching which Our Pleasure is herein before declared Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby for Us Our Heirs and Successors Direct Authorize and Command That the said Commissioners of Our Treasury Treasurer and Under-Treasurer and all other Officers in Our Exchequer for the Time being to whom it doth or shall appertain shall from Time to Time Levy and Strike Talleys for the Moneys which shall be so Paid by the Governor and Company of the National Land-Bank importing the Receipt thereof from them and Tallies for the Moneys which shall or may in the Case before-mentioned be so Paid by the respective Subscribers or Contribubuters his her or their Executors Administrators Successors or Assigns importing the Receipt thereof of and from them respectively And shall from Time to Time upon the said Tallies Draw and Sign such Exchequer-Orders as are above-mentioned for the Proportionable Parts of the said Yearly Fund which in the respective Cases aforesaid are to be Paid and Issued either to the Governor and Company of the National Land-Bank and their Successors for ever or to the respective Subscribers and Contributers their Executors Administrators Successors and Assigns for ever according to the Tenour and true Meaning of the said Act of Parliament and subject to the Conditions of Redemption therein contained Any Five Commissioners to give Receipts And We do also Direct and Appoint that you Our said Commissioners or any Five or more of you who shall Receive any of the above-mentioned Payments of the said First Fourth Part in pursuance of these Presents shall immediately give to the Person or Persons paying the same a Receipt in Writing for the several Sum and Sums of Money so received Entries of Payment And shall cause an Entry thereof to be made in a Book or Books for that purpose to be kept in your said Office or Offices wherein shall be Entred and Registred the Day on which every such Payment shall be made the Names of you Our said Commissioners to whom each Sum shall have been paid the Name and Place of Abode of the said Person or Persons making the Payment with his her or their proper Additions and the Sum that shall be actually paid Transmit an Acccount of the Payments to the Auditor And that you Our said Commissioners or any Five or more of you do without Delay after the said First Day of August next ensuing make or cause to be made a true Account fairly written in Parchment of all the said Receipts of the Money of the said First Fourth Part expressing therein such Particulars as are herein before directed to be Inserted in the said Receipts and deliver the said Account Attested by any Five or more of you as aforesaid into the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer Account to be Inrolled and Recorded And We do hereby Authorize Require and Command the said Auditor of the Receipt to Inrol and the said Clerk of the Pells to Record the said Account in the Registers or Records of their respective Offices as well for the Charging of you Our Commissioners who shall Receive the said Moneys or your Cashiers with the Money so Received as for the better Guidance of the said Commissioners of the Treasury Treasurer Under-Treasurer and other the Officers of the Exchequer for the Time being in the Issuing and Payment of the said appropriated Fund or any Part or Proportion of the same pursuant to the said Act of Parliament To give Attendance And Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Require and Command That you Our said Commissioners and every of you respectively do from Time to Time Assemble and Meet together and give your Attendance at the Publick Office or Offices before-mentioned And if the First Subdivide or any other General Meeting of you Our Commissioners which shall be had or appointed to be had for the putting of this Commission in Execution you or the Major Part of you then present shall judge it most convenient to have or keep several publick Offices for the Purpose aforesaid In that Case you are hereby Directed and Authorized to Sub-divide your selves for the said several Offices taking Care that a sufficient Number of you Our Commissioners shall be and do Attend in each Office And that you selves and the Cashier or Cashiers to be Employed under you do from Time to Time carefully and diligently Attend the Execution and Performance of this Our Service in all Things as becometh Commissioners of the Treasury to be Aiding And the said Commissioners of Our Treasury now being and the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer or Commissioners of Our Treasury for the Time being are hereby required to be Aiding and Assisting to you in the Performance of this Our Service Commmissioners of the Treasury to issue Moneys for the Charges And are hereby also Impowered and Commanded out of any Our Treasury from Time to Time being and remaining in the Receipt of Our Exchequer not appropriated to particular Uses by Act of Parliament to Issue and Pay to such Person or Persons as you shall nominate such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be necessary to be Expended or Laid out as
Winford Basill Wood Edward Woodhouse Jaques Wiseman Thomas Williams Isaac Watlington Thomas Williamson Walter Whitfeild Edmund Waller William Young and Warwick Yard to be our Commissioners to take and receive all such voluntary Subscriptions as shall be made on or before the said First Day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety six by or for any Person or Persons Natives or Foreignors or by or for any Body Politick or Corporate except as aforesaid for or towards the Raising or Paying the said Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds in the said Act mentioned And to you or any Five or more of you We do by these Presents give and grant full Power and Authority to take and receive and you or so many of you as aforesaid are hereby directed and required to take and receive all such voluntary Subscriptions of and for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the said Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds as any Person or Persons Natives or Foreigners or Bodies Politick or Corporate other than the Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall be willing to make as aforesaid or shall cause to be made within the time before To Provide the Office in Ten Days And for the better pursuing of the End and Intent of the said Act of Parliament and of our Royal Purpose and Intention in these Presents we do for Us Our Heirs and Successors order direct and appoint that you or so many of you as aforesaid shall within Ten Days after the Date or making of these Presents provide appoint and keep one or more Convenient House or Houses within the Cities of London and Westminster or one of them or within the Suburbs of the same to be the Publick Office or Offices to which all or any Person or Persons shall or may resort for the making of the said Subscriptions and to pay the Fourth Part of the Moneys which they respectively are to pay thereupon and shall give such publick Notice thereof as you shall think most conduceable to this Service Books in Ten Days And that you or any Five or more of you shall within Ten Days after the Date or making hereof provide or cause to be provided one or more Book or Books of Vellum or Parchment for the said Subscriptions to be made therein Which Book or Books shall lie open every Day Sundays excepted at the said Publick Office or Offices Books to lie Open. from the Hours of Eight to the Hours of Twelve in the Forenoons and from the Hours of Three to the Hours of Eight in the Afternoons until and upon the said First Day of August One thousand six hundred ninety six unless the Subscriptions for the said whole Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds shall be sooner Compleated And that in the Title or Front of every or any such Book or Books there shall be fairly written proper Words Title of the Book importing that the same doth or do contain the Subscriptions authorized to be made in pursuance of the said Act of Parliament and of these Presents of the respective Sums which the several Person or Persons Natives or Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate whose Names shall be written therein do or shall set or cause to be set against their Names respectively One full Fourth Part of which said Sum or Sums of Money and every of them so to be Subscribed is to be paid at the time of making each Subscription by the respective Subscribers Fourth Part payd down to the Hands of you our Commissioners and the residue thereof in such manner as is herein after directed Sums in Words at length and Figures And you are severally to take care that the Sums so Subscribed be written as will in Words at length as in Figures with a Colume for expressing the Day on which every such Subscription shall be made and that the Subscriptions so to be made from time to time be attested under the Hands and Seals of two or more of you Subscription Attested under the Hands and Seals of two or more Commissioners our Commissioners who were present at the making of those Subscriptions And that no such Subscriptions shall be made or taken after the said First Day of August now next ensuing Duplicates Attested by Five Commissioners to be delivered to the Auditor of the Exchequer And that you or any Five or more of you do without delay after the said First Day of August next ensuing or after the said Subscriptions for the whole Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds shall be Compleated which shall first happen make or cause to be made true Duplicates or Copies fairly written in Parchment of the said whole Book or Books of Subscriptions and deliver the said Duplicate or Duplicates of the said Book or Books attested by Five or more of you as aforesaid into the said Office of Auditor of the Receipt of Our Exchequer that so it may appear whether the whole Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds be Subscribed within the said limited Time or not or how much thereof and by whom the same or any part thereof shall be so Subscribed and that thereby the Commissioners of Our Treasury or Our Treasurer and Under Treasurer and other Officers of the Exchequer for the time being may know how the yearly Fund appropriated by the said Act or any proportion or part thereof is to be Issued or Applied according to the true Intent and Meaning of the same Act of Parliament And we do hereby Authorize Require and Command the said Auditor of the Receipt of Our Exchequer to Enroll and the Clerk of the Pells in the Receipt of Exchequer to Record the said Duplicate or Duplicates in the Registers or Records of their respective Offices for the Ends and Purposes aforesaid And also we do by these presents for us our Heirs and Successors Direct Authorize and Appoint that you our said Commissioners Any five to receive the first fourth part or any five or more of you shall and may receive and take from every such Subscriber or Subscribers as aforesaid respectively at the time of his her or their Subscription the full fourth part of every Sum so Subscribed which by the Tenor and true meaning of the said Act is then to be paid in Ready Money And that you Our said Commissioners or any five or more of you shall and may Appoint such Person or Persons as you shall think fit to Intrust To Appoint a Cashier and shall be also Approved by the Commissioners of Our Treasury or any three of them now being or by the Treasurer of Our Exchequer or any three or more of the Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being to be the Cashier or Cashiers for the Custody or Keeping of all
or any the Sum or Sums of Money arising by or for the first fourth part of the Moneys to be Subscribed as aforesaid taking from such Person or Persons respectively such Security or Securities as to you shall seem good and sufficient and shall also be Approved by the Commissioners of Our Treasury or the Treasurer of Our Exchequer as aforesaid by Bond or Bonds in the Name of us Our Heirs or Successors for the due Answering Paying and Accounting for the Money which they shall respectively receive according to such Rules or Directions as are hereafter in these Presents contained for or concerning the Payment or Application of the same To keep the Money till payable into the Exchequer AND We do by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors Direct Authorize and Command that you Our said Commissioners or your Cashier or Cashiers who shall Receive or have in their Custody all or any the Moneys arising by the said Subscriptions for the first fourth part as aforesaid or any Person or Persons Chargeable therewith shall safely keep the same and every part thereof as it shall be received to Our use until the said Moneys shall be payable into the Receipt of Our Exchequer according to Our Directions herein after contained that is to say How the first fourth part shall be paid into the Exchequer OUR Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Direct Authorize and Command that you Our said Commissioners or the said Cashier or Cashiers or others that shall have the Custody of the money of the said first fourth part or any part thereof or be chargeable therewith shall and do in case the whole Sum of Two Millions Five Hundred Sixty four Thousand Pounds or the Moyety or any greater part thereof shall be Subscribed on or before the first Day of August now next ensuing as aforesaid as soon as our Charter of Incorporation shall be made and passed under Our Great Seal of England pay or cause to be paid all the Moneys which shall then have been received of or for the said first fourth part into the Receipt of Our Exchequer in the Name of the Governour and Company of the National Land Band and upon such Payment or Payments to be made in the Name of such Governour and Company of the National Land-Bank of the Moneys of the said first fourth part the Commissioners of Our Treasury Treasurer and under Treasurer of Our Exchequer and all other Officers to whom it doth or shall appertain in the Receipt of the Exchequer for the time being are hereby Required and Authorized to Levy or Strike Talleys for the same Importing so much Money Received from such Governour and Company by the hands of you Our said Commissioners for or towards the Sum not exceeding Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds to be raised upon the said Act and to Draw and Sign Exchequer Orders fairly written in Parchment for paying to the said Governour and Company of the National Land-Bank and their Successors for ever Subject nevertheless to the Condition of Redemption in the said Act contained a proportionable part of the said yearly Sum of One hundred seventy nine thousand four hundred and eighty Pounds per Annum for every or any Sum of the said first fourth part which shall be so paid into the Receipt of Our Exchequer according to the Tenor and true meaning of the said Act of Parliament AND Our Will and Pleasure is And We do hereby Direct Authorize and Command that you Our said Commissioners or the said Cashier or Cashiers or others who shall have the Custody of the said Moneys so to be received for the first fourth part of the said Subscriptions or any part thereof shall and do in case so much as a Moyety of the said Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds shall not be Subscribed on or before the said first day of August next pay or cause to be paid all the Moneys which you shall have received for the said first fourth part upon the said Subscriptions into the Receipt of Our Exchequer in the Names of the respective Subscribers or Contributors thereof his her or their respective Executors Administrators Successors or Assignes and upon every or any such Payment or Payments to be made as is last mentioned the said Commissioners of Our Treasury Treasurer and under Treasurer of Our Exchequer and all other Officers to whom it doth or shall appertain in the Receipt of Our Exchequer for the time being are hereby Authorized and Required to Levy and Strike Talleys for the same Importing so much Money Received from the respective Subscribers and Contributors their Executors Administrators Successors or Assignes by the hands of you Our said Commissioners upon the said Act and to Draw and Sign Exchequer Orders fairly written in Parchment for paying to the said respective Subscribers and Contributors their Executors Administrators Successors and Assignes for ever subject nevertheless to the condition of Redemption in the said Act contained proportionable parts of the said yearly Fund of One hundred seventy nine thousand four hundred and eighty Pounds according to the true meaning of the said Act for every or any Sum which shall be so paid into the Receipt of Our Exchequer and these presents of the Entry or Enrollment thereof shall be to the said Commissioners of the Treasury Treasurer under Treasurer and all other Officers and Persons who are or may be concerned a sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf And as to the remaining three fourth parts of all and every the Sum and Sums of Money which shall be Subscribed and Contained in the said Books of Subscription as aforesaid How the residue shall be paid Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Declare Limit and Appoint that every entire Sum Subscribed or to be Subscribed as aforesaid being divided into four equal parts whereof the first fourth part is to be paid and brought into the Receipt of our Exchequer by and according to Our Directions aforesaid A Second fourth part thereof shall be paid and brought into the Receipt of Exchequer Second Payment on or before the first day of October now next ensuing Residue of the Payment And the remaining two fourth parts which will compleat the whole Subscriptions shall be paid or brought into the Receipt of Exchequer before the first day of January now next ensuing How the Residue shall be paid in case of Incorporation And in case the whole Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds or the Moiety or any greater part thereof shall be Subscribed on or before the first day of August next as aforesaid then all the Moneys which shall be Subscribed as aforesaid the first fourth part only excepted shall and may be brought and paid into the Receipt of Our Exchequer at such times and by such Ways Methods or Means as the Governour or in his absence the Deputy-Governour together