And lastly our express will and pleasure is, and we do by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto sd mayor, aldermen, and common council of the sd borough, and their successrs forever, that these our letters patent or the inrolment thereof in our secretarie's office of our sd province, shall be good, available, and effectual in the law to all intents, constructions, and purposes, against us, our heirs, and successors, without any other ' licence, grant, or confirmation from us, our heirs, or successors hereafter, by the sd mayor, aldermen, and common council, or their successors, or any of them, to be had and obtained notwithstanding the not recitall or miss-recitall, not nameing or miss-nameing of the sd offices, ffranchises, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and other the premises or any of them, and notwithstanding that no writ of ad quod damnum hath issued forth to enquire of the premises or any of them before the sealing of these presents, any statute, act, ordinance, or provision, or any other matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made pattent. Witness our trusty and well beloved Benjamin Fletcher our capn geni and govenr in chief of our sd province of New York and the territories and tracts of land depending thereon in America, and vice admiral of the same, our lieutent and commander in chief of the melitia and of all the fforsses by sea and land within our collony of Connecticut, and of all the fforts and places of strength within the same, Alt our fort at New York, this sixteenth day of April, in the eighth year of our reign.*