• ON THE LOCAL TAXATION OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN, 319 minister to read divine service, and preach and teach the word of God to such as shall reside within the same, and catechise such children as shall be in the said hospital or free school as to the said mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens, and their successors, or such as shall be appointed as aforesaid shall seem convenient, and from time to time, as ihey shall see occa- sion, to remove, displace and amove such master, minister, poore, poore children, people, or any other officers or ministers to the said hospital or free school belonging, and put some other or others in his or their place or stead, and to apportion, appoint and allow, from time to time, such fees, salaries and wages, and such allowances for maintenance, sustentation and relief of the said preacher, master or masters, other officers or ministers, and the said poor people and children as to them the said mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens, and their successors, shall seem meet: And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens, and their successors, from time to time and at all times here- after, when and as often as it shall seem expedient or necessary, shall require to make, con- stitute and appoint all or any such apt, wholesome and honest ordinances, statutes, rules and orders of or in relation to the well governing of the said hospital and free school, or either of them, or the master, minister, poore, poore children, or any other officers or ministers to the said hospital or free school belonging, or to be belonging, as to them the said ministers, sheriffs, commons and citizens, and their successors, shall seem meet, convenient or neces- sary, giving and hereby granting unto them the said mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens, and their successors, full and absolute power and authority to perform and execute all act or acts, thing or things whatsoever, that shall be requisite and necessary to be done for the putting in execution or compelling a performance of all such ordinance, statutes, rules and orders that shall, by virtue of these presents been made, constituted or appointed, without interruption of us, our heirs or successors, or any of the justices, escheators, sheriffs, minis- ters, servants or other subjects whatsoever of us, our heirs or successors; any statute, act, law or direction heretofore done or made, or hereafter to be done or made to the contrary notwithstanding; so that such statutes, ordinances, rules or orders, so to be made, consti- tuted or appointed, by virtue of these presents, be not contrary or disagreeing to the laws and statutes of this our kingdom of England or Ireland, or our royal authority; and such rules, ordinances and statutes to disannul and make void, as shall by the said mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens be found, from time to time prejudicial and hurtful to the government of the said hospital and free school: And further, of our more abundant grace, certain know- ledge, mere motion and princely disposition, for the furtherance and accomplishment of so good and charitable a worke, by and with the advice and consent aforesaid, and in pursuance of our said letters, We have also given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant unto the said mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens of our said city of Dublin, and their successors for ever, that the said hospital and free school shall be named, incorporated and called, the Hospital and Free School of King Charles the Second, Dublin, and by that name shall be and is hereby erected, founded, established and confirmed, and to have maintenance and continuance for ever, and that the mayors, sheriffs, commons and citizens of our said city of Dublin, and their successors, shall be from time to time governors of the said hospital and free school, and of the lands and tenements, possessions, revenues and goods unto the same belonging, or to be belonging, and shall be called and known by the name of the Governors of Hospital and Free School of King Charles the Second, Dublin : And that the said governors shall be and for ever continue by the name of the governors of the hospital and free school of King Charles the Second, Dublin, a body politic and corporate to have succession for ever, and by that name shall be and continue, and shall be able and capable in law, from time to time, and at all times for ever, to sue or be sued in any of our courts, spiritual and temporal, within our kingdom of Ireland, or other our kingdoms and dominions, in relation to the said hospital or free school, or any the lands, tenements, possessions, revenues or goods unto the same belonging, or to be belonging, or for any transgressions, offences, matters, causes or things made, committed or done, in or upon the premises or any part thereof, or any thing in these presents specified ; and to pur- chase, take, hold, receive and enjoy, to them and their successors for ever, to the ends afore- said, as well goods and chattels as also any manors, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, annuities and hereditaments whatsoever, as well from us, our heirs and successors, as of any other person or persons whatsoever, not exceeding the yearly value of six thousand pounds sterling, the statutes of Mortmaine or any other statutes to the contrary notwithstanding : And further, of our more abundant grace, certain knowledge, mere motion and princely dis- position, for the furtherance and accomplishment of so good and charitable a worke, by and with the advice and consent aforesaid, and in pursuance of our said letters, We have also given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, We do give and grant free liberty and licence, that the said governors and their successors may have and enjoy a common seal, to be used for the sealing of any instrument or instruments, deeds or writings, touching and concerning the lands, tenements and hereditaments, businesses or affairs of the said hospital and free school; nevertheless, our royal pleasure, intent and meaning is, that the said governors or their successors shall not do or suffer to be done, at any time hereafter, any act or thing whereby any the lands, tenements or hereditaments, or the state which shall belong to the said corporation shall be conveyed, alienated or transferred to any other use whatsoever than to the use of the said hospital or free school; and that the said governors, for the time being, shall not make any other lease or leases of any the lands, tenements, possessions or hereditaments which shall belong to the said corporation then for the term of forty- one years, of houses or buildings, or ground to be built on, and of one- and- twenty years of lands, ty thes or other hereditaments, and those to be made, either in possession, 549- 4L or