humble petition and onlye costs and charges of Thomas Sutton esquire, and them by the name of the governors of the landes possessions revenues and goodes of the hospital of king James founded in Charter-house within the countie of Middlesex at the humble petition and only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton esquire, one body corporate and politique by that name to have perpetuall succession for ever to endure, We do by these presents for us our heires and successors really and fully incorporate make erect ordaine name constitute and establish; and that by the same name of the governors of the lands possessions revenues and goodes of the hospital of kynge James founded in Charter-house within the countie of Middlesex at the humble petition and only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton esquire, they and their successors and the survivors and survivor of them and his and their successors, and the persons to be elected and chosen as aforesaid, shall for ever hereafter be incorporated named and called, and shall by the same name have perpetual succession for ever; and that they by the same name be and shall be and continue persons able and capable in the law from time to time and shall by that name of incorporation have full power and authoritye and lawful capacitie and abilitye to purchase take hold receive enjoy and have to them and to their successors for ever, as well goodes and chattels as mannors landes tenements rents reversions annuities and hereditaments whatsoever, as well of us our heirs and successors as of the said Thomas Sutton his heires executors and assignes, or of any other person or persons whatsoever: And also that the said governors for the tyme beying and their successors shall have full power and lawful authoritie by the aforesaid name of governors of the landes possessions revenues and goodes of the hospital of of kynge James founded in Charter-house within the countie of Middlesex at the humble petition and only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton esquire, to sue and to be sued, implead and to be impleaded, to answer and to be answered unto, in all manner of courts and places that now are or hereafter shall be within this our realm or elsewhere, as well temporall as spirituall, in all manner of suits whatsoever and of what nature and kinde soever such suits or actions be or shall be, in the same and as ample manner and forme to all intents constructions and purposes as any other person or persons bodies politique or corporate of this our realme of England being able persons in law may doe. And furthermore we will and grant by theise presents for us our heires and successors, unto the said governors for the time beying and theire successors, that they and their successors shall have and enjoy for ever a common seale, wherein shall be ingraven the name and armes of the said Thomas Sutton, whereby the same corporation shall or may seale any manner of instrument touching the same corporation and the mannors landes tenements rents reversions annuities and hereditaments goodes chattels and other things thereunto belonging, or in any wise touching or concerning the same: Nevertheless it is our true intent and meaning, that the saied governors for the tyme beying and their successors, nor any of them, shall do or suffer to be done at any time hereafter any.

acte or thinge whereby or by means whereof any of the mannors landes tenements rents reversions annuities or hereditaments of the said incorporation, or any estate interest possession or propertie of or in the same or any of them, shall be conveyed vested or transferred in or to any other whatsoever contrarie to the true meaning hereof, other than by such leases as are hereafter mentioned, and that in suche manner and form as is hereafter expressed and not otherwise; and that such construction shall be made upon the foundation and incorporation as shall be most beneficial and available for the maintenance of the poor; and for the repressing and avoiding of all acts and devices to be invented or put in ure contrarye to the true meaninge of these presents, and therefore our will and pleasure is, and so for us our heires and successors we do ordaine, that the said governors for the tyme beying or their successors, or any of them, shall not make any lease grant conveyance or estate of any of the saied mannors landes tenements or hereditaments which shall exceed the number of one and twenty years, and that either in possession or not above two years before the end and expiration or determination of the estate or estates in possession, and whereupon the accustomable yearly rent or more by the greater part of five years next before the making of any such lease reserved due or payable shall not be reserved and yearly payable during the continuance of every such lease. And also we do ordain grant and appoint by these presents for us our heires and successors, that so often and whensoever any one or more of the said governors for the tyme beying, or any other governor or governors that shall be chosen hereafter, shall fortune to depart this life, or to be removed from his or their place of governor or governors, that then and so often the residue of the said governor and governors and their successors shall be continue and remain incorporate by the same name of the governors of the landes possessions revenues and goodes of the hospitall of kynge James founded in Charter-house within the county of Middlesex at the humble petition and only cost and charges of Thomas Sutton esquire, to all intents constructions and purposes, accordinge to the true meaning of these presents, as if all the said governor and governors had continued; and that then and so often it shall be lawfull for the rest of the governors, or the greater number of them to elect nominate choose and appoint one or more meete person or persons, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, into the room and place or rooms and places of every such governor or governors which shall so depart this life or be removed, which person and persons so nominated elected chosen and agreed upon by the said governors, or by the greater number of them, shall be and shall be reputed and taken from the time of his or their election to be from thenceforth, together with the other governors of the saied hospitall; and after this manner to proceed whensoever and as often as need shall require, and the same election to be made within two monthes that any of the saied governor or governors shall depart this life or be removed; and that the saied Thomas Sutton during his life, and after his decease the saied governors for the tyme beying, or the more part

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of them, shall have full power and authority to nominate assigne and appoint, and shall and may name assigne and appoint when and as often as he and they shall think goode, such number and numbers of person and persons as he and they shall think convenient to be poor men children and schollars master preacher schole maister usher members officer and officers of or for the said hospitall, as the said Thomas Sutton during his life, and after his decease the governors for the tyme beying and their successors, or the more part of them, shall think meete and convenient: Nevertheless if the rents revenues or profits of all or any of the mannors lands tenements and hereditaments goodes or chattells at any time to be granted and conveyed to the saied governors of the saied hospitall and their successors, for the maintenance of the people in the said hospitall, shall happen to increase or be raised or augmented to a better or greater yearly value than formerly the same was, or that the rents revenues and possessions of the saied hospitall shall be further increased bye the dertirmination of any former estates in any of the saied possessions of the saied hospital, or otherwise, that all and every such increase shall be employed to the maintenance of more and other poor people to be placed in the said hospitall, or to the further augmentation of the allowances of those persons that for the tyme beying shall be in the saied hospitall, accordinge to the true intent and meaning of these presents, and shall not be converted or be employed to any private And also we do bye these presents, for us our heires and successors, will grant and ordaine, that whensoever and as often as any of the said places or roomes of any of the saied maister preacher scholemaster or usher, poor men or children, schollars members or officers, or any of them, shall happen to become voide by deathe resignation deprivation or otherwise, that then and so often it shall and may be lawfull for the said Thomas Sutton during his life, and after his death for the saied governors for the tyme beying and their successors, or the most part of them, within one month after such avoydence, by wrighting under the seale of the saied Thomas Sutton during his life, and after his death by the saied governors for the tyme beying and their successors, under their common seale, to nominate and appoint other meet person and persons in the rooms place and places of them and every of them so deceasing resigning or otherwise becoming void; and if in case the said governors and their successors for the tyme beying, or the most part of them, shall not within two months after suche avoydence nominate assigne and appoint as is aforesaid, that then and so often and in every such case, from and after the death of the saied Thomas Sutton, it shall be lawful for Us, our heires and successors, by letters patents under the greate scale of England or privy seale, to nominate and appoint meete person and persons to all and every such office rooms place and places as shall remain voyde for the tyme aforesaied by the default of the saied governors and their successors as is aforesaid. And we do further, of our especiall grace certaine knowledge and mere motion, for us, our heires and successors, give and grant that the saied maister preacher schollmaister usher poor men children schollars members and

officers of the saied hospitall, and every of them, shall be allowed ordered directed visited placed or displaced by the saied Thomas Sutton during his life, and after his death by the saied governors for the tyme beying and their successors, or the more part of them, according to such allowances rules statutes and ordinances as shall be appointed set forth made devised or established by the said Thomas Sutton during his life, in wrighting under his hand and seale, and after his death by the governors for the tyme beying and their successors, or the more part of them, under the said common seale. And further we have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant to the said Thomas Sutton duringe his life, by wrighting under his hand and seale, and to the saied governors and their successors for the tyme beying, or the more part of them, after his decease, under the saied common seale, to make set down and appoint such rules statutes and ordinances for the rule government and well ordering of the saied hospitall, and of the saied maister preacher schollmaister usher poor people children schollars members and officers for the tyme beying, and for their and every of their wages stipends and allowances for and towards their or any of their mayntenance and relief, as to the saied Thomas Sutton duringe his life, and after his decease to the saied governors and their successors for the tyme beying, or the more part of them, shall seem meete and convenient; and that the same orders rules statutes and ordinances, so by him them or any of them to be made set downe and prescribed as aforesaid, shall be and stand in full force and strength in law to all constructions intents and purposes, the same beying not repugnant to our prerogative royal, nor contraire to the laws and statutes of this our realm of England, nor to any ecclesiastical canons or constitutions of the church of England which then shall be in force. And that for the better government of the saied hospitall, the same Thomas Sutton during his life, and after his decease the saied governors for the tyme beying or the most part of them, or such and so many of them as the saied Thomas Sutton shall by his wrighting under his hand and seale thereunto assigne appoint and nominate, shall and may after the decease of the saied Thomas Sutton have full power and lawfull authority to visit order and punish or displace the maister preacher schoolmaister usher poor people schollars members and officers of the saied hospitall and every of them, and to order reform and redress all and every the disorders misdemeanors offences and abuses in the persons aforesaid and every of them, or in the saied hospital or free-school, or in or touching the government order and disposing of the same, and to censure suspend deprive and displace the saied maister preacher schoolmaister usher poor people schollars members and officers, and all every or any of them, as to him the saied Thomas Sutton duringe his life, and after his death to the saied governors for the tyme beying and their successors, or the more part of them, or to such and so many of them as the said Thomas Sutton by any his writing under his hand and seale shall thereunto assigne nominate and appoint, shall to him or them respectively seem fit just and con.

venient; so allways that no visitation acte or thing in or touching the same be had made or done by any person or persons during the life of the saied Thomas Sutton, other than by the said Thomas Sutton, and after his death by the said governors for the tyme beying and their successors or the more part of them, or by such or so many of them as the saide Thomas Sutton by his writing under his hand and seale shall nominate and appoint thereunto. And we of our further especiale grace certain knowledge and mere motion, and by our supreme power and authority, for us our heirs and successors, do will ordain and grant that the saied hospital and the maister preacher schoolemaister usher members officers, and all other the persons to be placed in the saied hospitall, shall be for ever hereafter exempted and freed of and from all visitation punishment and correction to be had used or exercised in or upon them or any of them by the ordinary of the diocess for the time beying, or by any other person or persons whatsoever, other than by the saide Thomas Sutton during his life, and after his death by the saied governors for the time beying and their successors. And further know ye, that we, for the considerations aforesaid, of our especiale grace certain knowledge and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents for us our heires and successors do give and grant, to the said governors of the landes possessions revenues and goods of the hospital of kynge James founded in Charter-house within the county of Middlesex at the humble petition and only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton esquire, and to their successors for ever, our especial licence and free and lawful libertye power and authoritye to get purchase receive and take to them and their successors for ever, for the maintenance sustentation and relief of all and every the person and persons to be placed in the said hospitall, of and from the said Thomas Sutton his heires and assignes, the said great and large mansion-house commonly called Charter-house besides Smithfield, together with the houses buildings courts yards gar dens orchards closes and other hereditaments lately purchased by the said Thomas Sutton of the said Thomas earl of Suffolk, and all those his manors and lordships of Southminster Norton Little Hallingbury alias Hallingbury Bouchers and Much Stambridge in the countie of Essex, with all their and every of their rights members and appurtenances whatsoever; and also all those his manors and lordships of Bustingthorpe alias Buslingthorpe and Dunsbye in the county of Lincoln, with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances whatsoever; and also those his mannors of Salthorpe alias Salthorp alias Halthorp Chilton and Blackgrove in the countye of Wilts, with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances; and also all those his landes and pasture grounds called Blackgrove, containing by estimation two hundred acres of pasture, with the appurtenances, in Blackgrove and Wroughton in the saied countye of Wilts; and also all that his manor of Missenden otherwise called the manor of Missenden in the parishes of Wroughton Lydeyerd and Tregoce, in the said county of Wilts, with all his rightes members and appurtenances, and all that his manor of Elcombe and Parke,