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Rh The Charter then proceeds to enact that the College shall be a body corporate consisting of a Provost, Fellows, and Scholars, with perpetual succession, and with power to hold and acquire goods, chattels, lands, hereditaments, &c., for their sustentation and support. They are granted permission to hold, purchase, and possess property of whatsoever kind, notwithstanding the Statutes of Mortmain, to sue and be sued, &c., under the corpo- rate name of "the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of the College of the Holy aiid Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin." They are to have a Common Seal, and in the case of vacancies in their body from death, resignation, deprivation, or any other cause, they are to have power to elect fit persons into the vacant places, so as to continue and perpetuate the corpo- ration.

But that with which we are here mainly concerned is the relation defined in the Charter between the College and the University. The University, as we have seen, is a body, to which the College has given birth, and of which the College was in some sort constituted the head. To the Provost and Fel- lows Elizabeth gave the absolute power of making, from time to time, laws, statutes, and ordinances for the pious and faithful government of the College; and also to select from the laws and statutes of either of the English Universities such as they shall