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Our soveraign lady, with the advice and consent of the estates of parliament, considering that the pious and laudable design now carying on by the incorporations of the craftsmen of Edinburgh and others who joyn with them, for founding and erecting a hospital for the mantenance and education of the female children and who give donations thereto may be of general advantage, and especially to the city of Edinburgh, therefore, her majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, do hereby allow and authorise the said incorporations of the craftsmen of Edinburgh and others joyning or who shall joyn with them to meet as oft as occasion requires, and to make such rules and constitutions for the carying on and supporting of the said hospital as they shall find just and convenient; as also to settle such funds as well out of their public boxes or private estate as they shall think fit, and to receive mortiffications or donations from any person who shall be pleased to contribute thereto, the said rules and acts to be made by them being always consistent with the laws of the kingdom, and with the acts and constitutions of the city of Edinburgh. And statuts and ordains the said rules and constitutions to be made by them to be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes for the ordering and governing of the hospital abovementioned, as if they were particularly exprest and set down in this act, whereanent her majesty dispenses. Her majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, ordains and declares the foresaid hospital, when set up and settled in its constitution and directors and overseers, to be a free hospital, for the pious use foresaid, with power to the fonds and rents appertaining thereto, but likeways to purchase and acquire lands, tenement and others for the farther good and advantage thereof, and, for that end, to make, grant and receive all manner of deeds and writes necessary for that effect, and to have a seal, if they shall think needfull, and with such inscriptions as they shall appoint for the confirmations of the said deeds, and generally, to have all such powers, liberties and immunities of a free hospital for pious uses as any other hospital for the like uses hath or by the law may have within this kingdom.