purposes of Education and the Advancement of
Learning in the said Province, with a competent number of
Professors and Teachers to render such Establishment effectual and
beneficial for the purposes intended; and also, upon condition that
one of the Colleges, to be comprised in the said University, should
be called McGill College; And whereas, the said James McGill,
Esquire, by his said last Will, did further give and bequeath to
the said Trustees the sum of Ten Thousand pounds, in trust, to pay
the same with interest to accrue thereon from and after the
expiration of three years from his decease, to the said Royal
Institution for the Advancement of Learning, to be applied as soon
as the said Institution should have erected an University or
College on the said land towards defraying the expenses thereby
incurred, and towards maintaining the said University or College so
erected and established. And whereas, we have been humbly
petitioned by the said Royal Institution for the Advancement of
Learning, that we should be pleased to grant Our Royal Charter for
the more perfect erection and establishment of the said College,
and for incorporating the members thereof for the purposes
aforesaid, and for such further endowment thereof as to us should
seem meet. We, having taken the premises into Our Royal
consideration, and being desirous that an University or College
should be established for the Education of Youth in the principles
of true religion and for their instruction in the different
branches of science and literature, are willing to comply with the
prayer of the said petition, and to afford every assistance towards
carrying the intentions of the said James McGill into execution.

"Therefore, know ye that We of Our special grace, certain knowledge
and mere motion, have willed, ordained and granted, and do by these
presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, will, ordain and grant,
that upon the said land and in the said buildings thereon erected
or to be erected, there shall be established, from this time one
College at the least for the Education of youth and students in the
Arts and Faculties, to continue forever, and that the first College
to be erected thereon shall be called McGill College; and that Our
trusty and well-beloved the Governor of Low