Committee or any one of the Commoners thereof
should be desired to attend every Court of Aldermen
to approve or seal such Leases or other Agreements
to which the said seal had. been thentofore
usually affixed And that the said Committee or
any one of the said Commoners so attending should
be considered as the legal Representative of the
Court of Common Council as Governors of the
aforesaid Royal Hospitals To the end that
their act and deed in the said sealing and
approving such leases and agreements as
aforesaid should be to all intents and purposes
as binding as though it was done by and in the
presence of the Court of Common Council And
that the said seal should be never used or
affixed to any instrument whatsoever but in
the presence and with the approbation of the
said Committee or some or one member thereof
being a Commoner And that at a Court of the
Lord Mayor and Aldermen holden upon the
17th.. day of March aforesaid It was resolved
that in future all business appertaining to the
City and Hospital seals should be transacted
in the Court of Lord Mayor Aldermen and
Commons in Common Council assembled

That several Leases pursuant to
Contracts previously entered into by the Treasrs.
& Committees of the respective Hospitals with
their Tenants having been approved and
examined and afterwards subscribed by
the President or Treasurers and some of