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Page 54 - An act to amend an act of the last session of parliament for appointing commissioners to inquire concerning charities in England for the education of the poor...
Page 54 - An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament for making temporary Provision for the Government of Lower Canada...
Page 73 - ... one body corporate and politic, in deed and in name, by the name of "The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay...
Page 355 - The Master Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity within the Town and University of Cambridge of King Henry the Eighth's foundation.
Page 67 - Patent do take the oaths appointed to be taken by an Act passed in the first year of the reign of King George the First, intituled
Page 360 - An Act to amend an Act of the Twentieth Year of his Majesty King George the Second, for the Relief and Support of sick, maimed, and disabled Seamen, and the Widows and Children of such as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the Merchant Service, and for other Purposes.
Page 193 - ... one of the exhibitioners for the city to travel abroad for the benefit of trade, and I exempt that travelling exhibitioner from going to the University; but subject him to such rules as Mr Alderman Heath shall be pleased to draw up for his direction, both at home and abroad. I require that he shall spend four years in trading towns in foreign nations, and the other three in trade at home; and that he shall receive the yearly exhibition of the whole seven years. This is a permission to the mayor...
Page 466 - Assigns forever, to be holden of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, as of his Manor, of East- Greenwich, in the County of Kent, in free and common Soccage...
Page 303 - as they will answer it before God, that they relieve the most honest, godliest, and religious persons, men and women, in the said several towns, that have lived well and had a good report, being fallen into decay by some extraordinary occasion ; and not to give it to dissembling, hypocritical persons...
Page 145 - Those four pensioners are to partake of this exhibition who have not of their own, and whose parents are not of ability to maintain them in the university." 3d. " There shall be chosen two out of the High School in Exon and two out of the Free Grammar School; and this order is still to be observed in the hospital, which the master of the schools, when they are to be chosen, shall present with some others that are fittest, sans partiality, to the mayor and recorder of the said city for the time being,...

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