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A62329
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The schedule containing the draught of the charter mentioned in the commission to which it is annexed and whereunto the same hath reference
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary)
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1694
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Wing S848; ESTC R214945
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Hundred Thousand Pounds and shall from time to time be issued and paid as the same shall come into the said Receipt of Exchequer to the Uses and Advantages of such Subscribers and Contributors their Heirs Successors or Assigns as should Subscribe and Contribute for and towards the raising and paying into the said Receipt of Exchequer the said Sum of Twelve Hundred Thousand Pounds And that it should and might be lawful for Us by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England to limit direct and appoint how and in what manner and proportions and under what Rules and Directions the said Sum of Twelve Hundred Thousand Pounds part of the said Sum of Fifteen Hundred Thousand Pounds and the said yearly Sum of One Hundred Thousand Pounds part of the said yearly Sum of One Hundred and Forty Thousand Pounds and every or any Part or Proportion thereof may be Assignable or Transferrable Assigned or Transferred to such Person or Persons only as shall freely and voluntarily accept of the same and not otherwise And to Incorporate all and every such Subscribers and Contributors their Heirs Successors or Assignees to be one Body Corporate and Politick by the Name of The Governor and Company of the Bank of England to have perpetual Succession and with such Priviledges and Powers and to be under such Rules as are therein mentioned subject nevertheless to a certain Proviso or Condition of Redemption in the said Act contained And it is thereby further Enacted That in Case the said whole Sum of Twelve Hundred Thousands shall not be advanced and paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer before the first day of January which shall be in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety and Four that then the Subscribers and Contributors for and towards the Raising and Paying of the said Sum of Twelve Hundred Thousands Pounds part of the said Sum of Fifteen Hundred Thousand Pounds their Heirs Successors and Assignees shall only have and receive so much and such part and proportion to the said Sum and Sums so respectively paid and advanced as shall be after the rate of eight Pounds per Cent. per Annum And for the better and more speedy payment of the said yearly Sum of One Hundred Thousand Pounds the Commissioners of Our Treasury and the Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer now being and the High-Treasurer and Under-Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being are thereby strictly Enjoyned and Required by Virtue of the said Act and without any further or other Warrant to be Sued for had or obtained from Us Our Heirs or Successors to direct their Warrants yearly for the payment of the said yearly Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds to the Contributors of the said Sum of Twelve hundred thousand Pounds in such Manner and Proportions as are therein Directed and Appointed And the Auditor of the Receipt of Our Exchequer and all other Officers of the Exchequer now and for the time being are thereby Directed and Enjoyned to issue the said Moneys so set a-part for the Uses afore-mentioned from time to time without any Fee or Reward and under such Penalties as are by the said Act to be inflicted And in the said Act is contained a Proviso That in case the whole Sum of Twelve hundred thousand Pounds or a Moity thereof should not be Subscribed on or before the First day of August One thousand six hundred ninety four aforesaid that then the Powers and Authorities in the said Act for Erecting a Corporation as aforesaid should cease and determine And it is further Enacted That any Moneys payable to any Person or Persons upon or by Virtue of the said Act shall not be Charged or Chargeable with any Rates Duties or Impositions whatsoever as in and by the said Act of Parliament amongst divers other Matters and Things therein contained relation being thereunto had may more fully appear And whereas in pursuance of the said Act Recital of the Commission We did by Our Commission or Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing Date at Westminster the Fifteenth day of June now last past Nominate Constitute Authorize and Appoint Sir William Ashurst Knight Mayor of our City of London Sir John Cope Sir Thomas Littleton Sir John Shaw Sir Walter Young Sir Josiah Child Names of Commissioners Sir John Morden Sir William Cooper Sir John Huband Sir Francis Lawly Baronets Sir Robert Cotton of Cambridgeshire Knight Sir Robert Clayton Sir Patience Ward Sir James Houblon Sir John Houblon Sir Edward Clearke Sir Richard Levett Sir William Gore Sir William Hedges Sir Thomas Abney Aldermen of our City of London Sir Charles Caesar Sir Edward Abney Sir Benjamin Newland Sir John Werden Sir John Bucknall Sir Peter Vandeput Sir William Cranmer Sir Henry Furnes Sir Isaac Rebow Sir William Scawen Sir John Buckworth Sir John Eyles Sir John Chardin Knights Mordecai Abbot George Pitt Thomas Pitt Master in Chancery William Dorington Brooke Bridges Robert Bristow Charles Fox Thomas Felton James Chadwick Dr. George Oxenden Charles Williams Henry Cornish Edward Clark Colonel Henry Cornwall William Gulston Charles Godolphin Esquires John Germain Charles Godfrey Thomas Howard Thomas Hall Nathaniel Herne Robert Henly John Jefferies John Knight Richard Hutchinson Charles Duncombe Joseph Haskyn Styles Francis Scobell John Morrice Thomas Mawle Thomas Papillon Phillip Papillon Francis Parry William Palmes Esquires Nathaniel Tench Francis Tyssen Samuel Travers Thomas Western Senior Samuel Westerne Thomas Westerne Junior Robert Atwood Peter Ducane William Desboverie John Duboise Peter Delmee William Disher James Dufay Francis Eyles Barrington Eaton James Bateman William Bridges Linnen-Draper Samuel Bulteele Charles Ball Esquires Bartholomew Burton Gent. Bartholomew Beale George Bodington Peter Burrell John Bellamy Scrivener David Becceler William Fawkner James Fowlis Samuel Foot Junior Bartholomew Fillingham John Carter Gerrard Conyers Richard Carey John Cooke Linnen-Draper Charles Chamberlaine William Coward Francis Gosfright Thomas Goddard Michael Godfrey Peter Godfrey Francis Gell Lewis Gervaice Thomas Guy Peter Houblon Junior Abraham Houblon Gilbert Heathcot Samuel Heathcot Edmund Harrison Matthew Humberston Dr. Thomas Hobbs Daniel Hayes Edward Haistwell Thomas Hancock Robert Raworth Samuel Rawsterne George Richards Hillary Renew Benjamin Rookeby Matthew Raper Theodore Jansen Walter Kent William Knight John Kendrick John Lordell Robert Lyddall Samuel Lock John Lloyd William Lowndes Timothy Lannoy James La Bretoniere Thomas Scawen Obediah Sedgwick Samuel Sheppard John Smith Silkman Robert Mitchel John Nicholson Foot Onslow Samuel Ongley William Paterson Peter Paggen Arthur Shallet Stephen Seignoret John Sherbrook Humphry Sympson Henry Spencer John Smith in Beauford-Buildings Maximilian Western Joseph Tyley Francis Tierens Henry Tate Jasper Vandebush Gerrard Vanhuitsen John Ward John Woolfe Robert Whittingham Richard Mulys Robert Yate John Ellis Thomas Edwards James Vernon William Ash Edward Herris Hugh Squire Edward Littleton Richard Cheyney John Holland William Sedgwick William Jarret John Shipman and Constantine Vernatty Esquires to be Our Commissioners to Take and Receive
all such Voluntary Subscriptions as should be made on or before the said First day of August in the Year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety four by any Person or Persons Natives or Foreigners or by or for any Body Politick or Corporate for or towards the raising and paying the said Sum of Twelve hundred thousand Pounds part of the said Sum of Fifteen hundred thousand Pounds in the said Act mentioned with Power and Direction to them or such or so many of them as are thereby Authorized and Appointed to take such Subscriptions and to do and perform such Matters and Things in Relation thereunto as are thereby Enjoyned And We did in and by the same Promise and Declare That in Case the whole Sum of Twelve hundred thousand Pounds or the Moiety or any greater part thereof should be Subscribed on the said Act or in pursuance of the said Commission on or before the said First day of August then next ensuing that then We Our Heirs or Successors should and would immediately after the said First day of August or so soon as Twelve hundred thousand Pounds should be Subscribed as aforesaid which of them should first happen Grant and Make forth Our Royal Charter or Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England and thereby Incorporate all and every such Subscribers and Contributors who should be then living and who should not have Assigned their Interest in their said Subscriptions And in Case any of them should be Dead the Heirs of such Subscribers And in Case any of the said Subscribers should have Assigned their Interest in their said Subscriptions in all such Cases the Assignees of such Subscribers to be one Body Corporate and Politique by the Name of The Governor and Company of the Bank of England with such Powers Capacities Priviledges Benefits Liberties and Advantages and under and subject to such Rules Restrictions Power of Redemption Provisoes Limitations and Clauses as are therein mentioned or referred unto And We did thereby for Us Our Heirs and Successors Declare Limit Direct and Appoint That the whole Sum or Amount of all and every the Sum and Sums of Money as should be Subscribed and Paid as aforesaid should be and be Called Accepted Esteemed Reputed and Taken a Common Capital and Principal Stock And all and every Person and Persons his her and their Heirs Successors and Assigns according and in proportion to the Sum or Sums of Money by him her or them respectively Subscribed and Paid thereunto should have and be deemed to have an Interest or Share in the said Principal Stock and of and in the Yearly Fund granted by the said Act of Parliament as aforesaid And that such Interest or Share or any part thereof should be Assignable and Transferrable and should and might be Assigned and Transferred by any Person or Persons Intituled thereunto to any other Person or Persons and so over as fully and effectually as any other Interest whatsoever is by Law Assignable so as such Assignments or Transferrances should be made in Writing and be Entred or Registred in such manner as is hereafter mentioned That to say all Assignments or Transferrances which should be made on or before the said First day of August next ensuing or the full and compleat Subscribing of the said 1200000 l. which should first happen and before the granting of these Presents were thereby directed to be Entred or Registred in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt of Our Exchequer within 6 days after the making of the said respective Assignments And all Assignments or Transferrances which should be made after the Granting of this Our Charter of Incorporation should be Made Entred and Registred in such Form as should be prescribed in these Presents And in the said Commission are contained several other Powers Directions Agreements Clauses Matters and Things as in and by the same relation being thereunto had more fully and at large appears Recital of the Duplicates transmitted into the Auditors Office And whereas it appears by Duplicates transmitted into the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt of Our Exchequer under the Hands and Seals of Five or more of Our said Commissioners being a competent and sufficient number for that purpose and made in pursuance of Our Directions in the said Commission contained that several Sums amounting in the whole to the Sum of _____ have been Subscribed and the first Fourth part thereof paid to Our said Commissioners or some of them pursuant to the said Act of Parliament on or before the _____ day _____ last past by _____ Recital of the Assignments And whereas it also appears by the Entries of several Assignments made and entred in the said Office of the Auditor of the Receipt of Our Exchequer pursuant to the Directions contained in Our said Commission That _____ Are by mean Assignment or Assignments severally and respectively Intituled to the Benefits of the Subscriptions which were severally made by the said _____ Incorporating Clause Now know ye That We being desirous to promote the Publick Good and Benefit of Our People which in these Presents are chiefly designed and intended as well as the Profit and Advantage of all such as have Subscribed and Contributed according to the said Act of Parliament and Our said Commission thereupon issued their Heirs Successors and Assigns respectively and in pursuance as well of the Powers and Clauses for this purpose contained in the said Act of Parliament as of Our Gracious Promise and Declaration made in or by Our said Commission or Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England whereby the Subscriptions and Contributions on the said Act have been promoted or encouraged And by Vertue of Our Prerogative Royal and likewise of Our Especial Grace Certain Knowledge and Meer Motion have Given Granted Made Ordained Constituted Declared Appointed and Established and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do Give Grant Make Ordain Constitute Declare Appoint and Establish That the said _____ And all and every other Person and Persons Natives and Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate who over and above the Persons before especially Named have at any time or times before the making of these Presents Subscribed and Contributed any Sum or Sums of Money towards the said Sum of _____ pursuant to the said Act and Our said Commission and have paid the Fourth Part thereof upon their said Subscriptions and who are now Living or Existent and have not Assigned their Interest in the said Subscriptions And all and every the Heirs and Successors of any of the said Original Subscribers who are now Dead and have not in their Life-times Assigned their Interests in the said Subscriptions and the Heirs and Successors of such of the said Assignees who are now Dead and did not in their Life-times Assign or Depart with their Interest in the said Stock and Annual Fund and all and every Person and Persons Natives or Foreigners Bodies Politick and Corporate who