The editors of Documents relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge have published, in vol. iii, several Charters of God's House, including the documents dated 9 February 1442, 1 March 1442, 26 August 1446. That those royal documents are styled charters with no less justification than this of 1448 is readily admitted, but as they were charters giving licence to found which was not exercised, they have been generally designated licences in the preceding chapters, while the compound term ‘Foundation Charter’ has been reserved for the royal charter dated 16 April 1448, which, while it gave licence to the Proctor and scholars to do many things which without licence they might not lawfully do, and gave licence also to many persons, named and unnamed, to do many things for the benefit of the college which without licence they might not lawfully do, did especially, and above all things else, found the college. The essential difference may be seen from comparison of the forms of words used respectively in the royal licence of 26 August 1446 and the foundation charter of 16 April 1448, now being considered. The 1446 document declares: