Wherefore, we being graciously disposed to encourage and promote the pious intentions of our said subjects, and to grant this their reasonable request, Know Ye, that we of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have made, ordained, constituted, granted and declared, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do make, ordain, constitute, grant and declare, that the said petitioners and the rest of the members in communion with the said French church at New Rochelle aforesaid, being the most ancient French church now there, and known by the name of Trinity church, be, and their successors, the minister and members in communion with the said French church at New Rochelle aforesaid for that time, shall be, from time to time, and at, all times forever hereafter, a body politic and corporate in deed, fact and name, by the name aud style of the Minister and Members of Trinity church at New Rochelle, in the County of Westchester, and them and their successors, the minister and members in communion with the said church at New Rochelle aforesaid, for the time being by the name of the Minister and Members of Trinity church at New Rochelle, in the County of Westchester, one body politic and corporate in deed, fact aud name, really and fuhy, we do for

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us, our heirs and successors, erect, make, constitute, declare and create by these presents, and that, by the same name, they and their successors, the minister and members in communion with the said church at New Rochelle aforesaid, for the time being shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall and may be responsible and capable in the law to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, to answer and be answered unto, and to defend, and be defended in all courts and elsewhere, in all and singular suits, causes, quarrels, matters, actions, demands and things of what nature and kind soever ; and also, that they and their successors by the same name be and shall be forever hereafter capable and able, in the law, to take, except of, and acquire and purchase, receive, have, hold and enjoy in fee, forever or for life or lives, or for years, or in any other maimer, any messuages, buildings, houses, lands, tenements, hereditaments and real estate, and the same to lease or demise for one or more years, or for life or lives, or to grant, alien, bargain, sell and dispose of in fee simple, and also to accept of, take, purchase and possess any goods, chattels or personal estate, and the same to have, let, sell or dispose of at their will and pleasure, and all this as fully as any other coporation or body politic within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, or in our province of New York, may lawfully do, provided that such messuages and real estate as they for their successors shall have or ma)' be entitled unto, shall not at any one time exceed the yearly rent of rive hundred pounds, over and above the said church and the ground on which the same stands ; and, further, we do will and ordain, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, declare and appoint, that for the better ordaining and managing the business and affairs of the said corporation, there shall be one minister of the Church of England as by law established, duly qualified for the care of souls, two church-wardens and six vestrymen, from time to time constituted, elected, and chosen for the said church in manner and form as is Hereafter in these presents expressed; which minister and church-wardens, or any two of them, together with the vestry, or the major part of them for the time being shall have, and are hereby invested with full power and authority to dispose, order and govern the business and affairs of, and concerning the said church, and all such lands, tenements, hereditaments, real and personal estate as shall or may be purchased or acquired for the use thereof as aforesaid : and further, we do will and grant, that the said minister and members of Trinity church at New Rochelle, in the County of Westchester, and their successors, shall and may forever hereafter have a common seal to serve and use, for all matters, causes and affairs whatsoever of them and their successors, and full power and authority to break, alter, change and new make the same, or any other common seal, from time to time, at their will and pleasure, as they shall think fit ; and for the better execution of our royal will and- pleasure herein, we do assign, constitute and appoint the said Jacob Bleecker and James de Blez, to be the present church-wardens, and the said David Lispenard, Isaac Guion, Elias Guion, Isaac Guion, junior, Peter Bertain and John Soulice, to be the present vestrymen of the said church-- to hold and enjoy their several offices until the first Tuesday in Easter week next ensuing and no longer.