Incident Charges in the Execution of this Our Commission Notice of the first Election And to the End the said Corporation or Body Politick in Case the said 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 said First Day of August next ensuing may be Erected and Setled to the best Content and Satisfaction of the Subscribers or Contributers aforesaid We do by these Presents give full Power and Authority to you Our said Commissioners And We do hereby for Us Our Heirs and Successors Require Cmmand Consent and Agree That you Our said Commissioners or any Five or more of you shall and may immediately after the said First Day of August next or so soon as the said Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds shall be Subscribed as aforesaid which of them shall first happen cause Publick Notice to be given by Writing under your Hands to be openly set up and affixed upon the Royal-Exchange in London and at your own Publick Office or Offices to and for all and every the Person and Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate who before the making of the Elections herein after mentioned shall severally or respectively have Subscribed in the said Book or Books as aforesaid any Sum or Sums of Money not less than Five hundred Pounds and shall have severally paid one Fourth Part of the Sum or Sums so by them Subscribed and shall have taken the Oaths Qualification of Electors or made the Declaration herein after mentioned their Executors Administrators Successors or Assigns to Assemble and Meet together at some convenient Place within the Cities of London or Westminster and at a Day to be Prescribed or Appointed in the said Writing Which Day is not to be sooner than Four Days or later than Eight Days after the said Notice shall be Set up or Affixed upon the Royal Exchange and your said Office or Offices as aforesaid Provided that no one to Elect. Then and there to Elect and Chuse Persons qualified as is herein after mentioned to be the First Governor First Deputy-Governor and First Trustees of the Corporation or Body-Politick to be Erected and Established in pursuance of the said Act. Chose by Ballat And that it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every such Subscribers qualified as aforesaid their Executors Administrators Successors and Assignes then and there to assemble and meet together and too and for them or the Major part of them so assembled to Nominate Elect and Choose by way of Ballat out of the whole number of Subscribers None above one Vote whereof none to have more then one Vote one Person who shall have Subscribed in his own Right the Sum of Four Thousand Pounds at least and shall have paid one fourth at the least of the Sum so by him Subscribed Stock of Governor to be made the first Governour of the said Corporation to be erected as aforesaid and one other Person who shall have Subscribed in his own Right the Sum of Three Thousand Pounds at least and shall have paid one fourth part at least of the Sum so by him Subscribed Stock of Deputy Governor Thirty Trustees to be made the first Deputy-Governor of the said Corporation and thirty other Persons each of which shall severally have Subscribed in their own Rights the Sum of Two Thousand Pounds at the least Stock of Trustees and who shall severally and respectively have paid one fourth part or more of every such Sum so by them respectively Subscribed to be the first Trustees of the said Corporation or Body Politick which Election shall severally be determined by the Majority of Votes of the Subscribers then present by way of Ballat as aforesaid In case of Equality And in case they shall be Equal then by you Our Commissioners or the Major part of you then present Persons Elected to be inserted in the Charter And the Persons so to be Elected or Chosen shall be incerted in Our Royal Charter of Incorporation to be granted as aforesaid and shall thereby be made and constituted the first Governour Deputy-Governour and Trustees of the Company thereby to be Erected and Established and to be and continue in those several Offices of Governor Deputy-Governor and Trustees from the date or making of Our said Charter until the Tenth Day of April which shall be in the Year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety eight First Trustees to continue till tenth of April 1698. and till others shall be duly chosen in their Rooms and sworn Subject nevertheless to the Rules Restrictions Provisoes and Directions contained in the said Act of Parliament and to such other Rules and Appointments as shall be inserted touching them in the said Charter The Draught whereof is contained in a Schedule hereunto annexed Provided always and Our Royal Will and Pleasure is And we do hereby Appoint that no Subscriber shall be capable to Vote as aforesaid in the Election of the said Persons to be made the first Governor Deputy-Governor or Trustees Oath of Electors or any of them until he shall have taken an Oath in the form and to the effect following to wit I A. B. Do swear that the Sum of Five hundred Pounds by me Subscribed or the Sum of Five hundred Pounds at least of the Moneys by me Subscribed is my own proper Money for my own Use and in my own Right and not in Trust for any Person whatsoever Provided nevertheless that any Person or Persons commonly called or known to be Quakers who shall have Subscribed Five hundred Pounds or more as aforesaid Proviso for Quakers and shall have made and Signed the Declaration following that is to say I A. B. Do Sincerely and Solemnly Declare in the Presence of God that the Sum of Five hundred Pounds by me Subscribed or the Sum of Five hundred Pounds at least of the Moneys by me Subscribed is my own Proper Money for my own Use and in my own Right and not in Trust for any Person whatsoever shall be capable of Voting and the Elections or choice of the said Persons to be made the First Governor Deputy Governor and Trustees as aforesaid Governor Deputy-Governor and Trustees to be Natural Born or Naturallized and to take Oaths Provided also and Our Royal Will and Pleasure is and we do hereby Appoint that no Subscriber or Subscribers shall be capable to be Chosen as aforesaid to be made the First Governor Deputy-Governor or Trustees as aforesaid unless he or they be Natural born Subjects of England or Naturalized and shall severally and respectively have taken an Oath that the Sums which in their respective cases are requisite to have been Subscribed by them as aforesaid that is to say Four Thousand Pounds by the Person to be made Governor Three Thousand Pounds by the Person to be made Deputy-Governor and
Esq Jaques Wiseman Merchant Thomas Williams Merchant Isaac Watlington Esq Thomas Williamson Esq Walter Whitfeild Esq Edmund Waller Esq William Young Esq and Warwick Yard Merchant Greeting Recital of the Act. Whereas in and by an Act made in the late Sessions of Parliament Intituled An Act for Continuing to His Majesty certain Duties upon Salt Glass Wares Stone and Earthen Wares and for Granting several Duties upon Tobacco Pipes and other Earthen-Wares for the Carrying on the War against France and for Establishing a National-Land-Bank and for taking off the Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and upon Coals It is Enacted amongst other things That all and every the Rates and Duties in the said Act mentioned should be Continued Raised Levied Collected Answered and Paid unto Us our Heirs and Successors in manner and form as in the said Act is mentioned into the Receipt of Exchequer under certain Penalties therein mentioned And that all the said Sums by virtue of the said Act to be paid into the Receipt of Exchequer should be the Fund for the several and respective intents and Purposes in the said Act expressed And that yearly and every year reckoning the First Year to begin from the Seventeenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six the full Sum of One hundred seventy nine thousand four hundred and eighty Pounds out of the Moneys to arise by the several Rates and Duties by the said Act Granted and Continued and to be brought into the Receipt of Exchequer as aforesaid should be the whole and entire yearly Fund And in case the said Payments should not amount to One hundred seventy nine thousand four hundred and eighty Pounds per Annum then the said Payments so far as they will extend should be part of the yearly Fund for and towards the answering and paying of the several yearly Sums in the said Act mentioned And it is thereby further Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for Us by Commission under Our Great Seal of England to Authorize and Appoint any Number of Persons to take and receive such voluntary Subscriptions as shall be made on or before the First Day of August One thousand six hundred ninety six by any Person or Persons Natives or Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate other than the Governor and Company of the Bank of England for and towards the Raising and Paying into the Receipt of Exchequer the Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds And that the yearly Sum of One hundred seventy nine thousand four hundred and eighty Pounds arising by and out of the said Duties and Impositions before mentioned shall be applied issued and directed and is thereby appropriated to the Use and Advantage of such Person or Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate as shall make such voluntary Subscriptions and Payments their Executors Administrators Successors and Assignes for ever proportionable to the Subscription of each Person or Body Politick so subscribing the same And it is thereby further Enacted That the Commissioners of Our Treasury and the Under-Treasurer of Our Exchequer now being and the Lord High Treasurer and Under Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being are thereby strictly enjoined 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 seventy nine thousand four hundred and eighty Pounds to the Contributors of the said Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds in manner and proportion in and by the said Act directed and appointed And the Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer and all other Officers of the Exchequer for the time being are thereby directed and enjoined to issue the said Moneys so set apart for the Uses thereby directed from time to time without any Fee or Reward under such Penalties as are by the said Act to be inflicted And it was thereby declared That it should be lawful for Us to Incorporate all and every the Subscribers and Contributors their Executors Successors and Assigns to be one Body Corporate and Politick by the Name of the Governor and Company of the National Land-Bank to have perpetual Succession and to have such Capacities Priviledges and Powers and to be under such Rules as are therein mentioned And in case the whole Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds shall not be advanced and paid into the said Receipt of Exchequer before the first Day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety six that then the Subscribers and Contributors for and towards raising the said Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds their Executors Successors and Assigns shall only have and receive so much and such part and proportion of the said yearly Fund as shall be after the Rate of Seven Pounds per Cent. per annum for such Sum and Sums of Money as shall be so respectively paid and advanced And that from and after the Granting the said Letters Patents of Incorporation the said yearly Sum of One hundred seventy nine thousand four hundred and eighty Pounds or so much thereof as shall be proportionable to the several Sums of Money before that time advanced or to be then afterwards advanced before the said First Day of January One thousand six hundred ninety six as aforesaid shall be paid and payable unto the said Governor and Company and their Successors for ever in Trust in the First Place for paying and satisfying all Bills and other Charges which they shall from time to time charge thereupon under their Common Seal and from and after Payment of such Bills and Charges then in Trust for the several and respective Members of the said Incorporation according to the proportion of their several Stocks therein And that the Interests and Stock of the particular Members of the said Incorporation shall go to Executors and Administrators and not to Heirs and shall be Transferrable and Devisable in such manner as We shall direct in and by the said Letters Patents and not otherwise And in the said Act is contained a Proviso That in case the Sum of Five and twenty hundred and sixty four thousand Pounds or a Moiety thereof should not be Subscribed on or before the First Day or August One thousand for hundred ninety six that then the Powers and Authorities in the said Act for Erecting a Corporation as aforesaid shall cease and determine And in such case so much of the said yearly Sum of One hundred seventy nine thousand four hundred and eighty Pounds as shall belong to the said Subscribers according to the meaning of the said Act shall be transferrable by the respective Subscribers their respective Executors Successors or Assigns to any Person or Persons whatsoever by any Writing or Writings under the Hand and
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
Remembrancer in the Exchequer in such Method as the said Act in that Case directs Provided always and Our Will and Pleasure is and We do by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors signifie express declare and grant That you Our said Commissioners or any of you Commissioners to be answerable for their own Acts only who are joyned in this Our Commission shall be nevertheless Liable and Answerable unto Us Our Heirs and Successors severally to wit Every one of you for his own particular Receipts Actings and Doings and not for the Receipts Actings or Doings of one another or of your Casheir or Casheirs or in any Case where there is not perticular Fraud or Deceit Commissioners to be Sworn Provided also and Our Will and Pleasure is That you Our said Commissioners and every of you before you respectively do intermeddle in the Execution of this Our Commission be Sworn to the Faithful and Honest Discharge and Execution thereof And we do hereby Authorize and Impower the Keeper of Our Great Seal of England or Our High Chancellor of England for the Time being or the Chief Baron of Our Court of Exchequer for the Time being or such two or more of you our Commissioners as shall first be Sworn before Our said Keeper Chancellor or Chief Baron to Administer unto you severally such Oath in the Words or to the Effect following that is to say Form of Commissioners Oath I A. B do Swear That I will Faithfully and Honestly Discharge and Execute the Duty and Trust Reposed in me as one of the Commissioners Appointed by His Majesty under the Great Seal of England for taking Subscriptions and doing other Matters and Things pursuant to the Act of Parliament Intituled An Act for Continuing to His Majesty certain Rates and Duties upon Salt Glass Wares Stone and Earthen Wares and for Granting several Duties upon Tobacco Pipes and Earthen Wares for the Carrying on the War against France and for Establishing a Notional Land-Bank and for taking off the Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and upon Coals to the best of my Skill Unsterstanding and Power and without Fraud or Deceit So help me God In Case of death of Commissioners Provided also and Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Declare Ordain and Appoint That in Case any of you Our said Commissioners shall happen to die before all the Matters and Things hereby Authorized and Intended to be done and Executed shall be fully Performed and Accomplished That then this Our Commission or any the Powers hereby Granted shall not Determine or become Ineffectual but shall and may be Executed and Performed by the rest of you Our Commissioners so long as there shall be a sufficient number left to Execute the same And in Default thereof We do hereby Promise and Declare That a New Commission and full Powers and Authorities shall be Granted under Our Great Seal of England for the Accomplishment and Performance of all Matters and Things hereby Directed or Intended to be Done for the Benefit or Security of the said Subscribers and Contributers their Executors Successors or Assigns Any Commissioners may Subscribe Provided also and We do hereby Signifie and Declare That it is Our Royal Intention and Purpose in these Presents that any of you Our Commissioners may be Subscribers and the rest of you Our Commissioners or so many of you as aforesaid may take such Subscriptions from any of you and Receive the Money and do all other Things thereupon as are hereby directed to be done in the Case of any other Subscribers any thing beforementioned to the Contrary notwithstanding Provided Nevertheless that where any of you Our said Commissioners shall be Subscribers such Subscriptions shall be made before and be Attested in the Books by some other of you Our said Commissioners who are to give Receipts for the same When Inrolled And Lastly Our Pleasure is That these Presents shall be Inrolled in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt and Recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Pells in Our Exchequer and these Presents or the Entry Exemplification or Inrollment thereof shall be to you and every of you and all others herein Concerned a sufficient Warrant and Discharge for all and whatsoever Matters and Things shall be Done Executed or Performed in pursuance of the same or of Our Pleasure therein declared In Witness FINIS