Preferred Security Certificate



 Exhibit 4.17 
  
 Form of 
  
 CAPITAL SECURITY CERTIFICATE 
  
 This Capital Security is a Global Certificate within the meaning of the Trust Agreement hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of The
Depository Trust Company (the “Depository”) or a nominee of the Depository. This Capital Security is exchangeable for Capital Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited
circumstances described in the Trust Agreement and no transfer of this Capital Security (other than a transfer of this Capital Security as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository
or another nominee of the Depository) may be registered except in limited circumstances. 
  
 Unless this Capital Security is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company (55 Water Street, New York) to Mellon Capital          or its
agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Capital Security issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or such other name as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, and any payment
hereon is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein. 
  

	 Certificate Number         
	  	         Capital Securities
	 CUSIP NO.         
	  	 

  
 Certificate
Evidencing Capital Securities 
  
 of 
  
 Mellon Capital         

  
         %
Capital Securities, Series          
 (liquidation amount $25 per Capital Security)

  
 Mellon Capital
        , a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Trust”), hereby certifies that Cede & Co. (the “Holder”) is the registered owner of
         capital securities of the Trust representing an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust and designated the Mellon Capital
        % Capital Securities, Series          (liquidation amount $25 per Capital Security) (the “Capital Securities”). The Capital Securities
are transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined
below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Capital Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Capital Securities 







 represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated as of         , as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), including the designation of the terms of Capital Securities
as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement, dated as of          (the “Guarantee”), entered into by Mellon Financial Corporation, a Pennsylvania
corporation, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as guarantee trustee, to the extent provided therein. The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Trust at its principal place
of business or registered office. 
  
 Upon receipt of this
certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has executed this certificate the
        th day of         . 
  

	MELLON CAPITAL         
		
	By:	 	 
	 	

	 Name:
	 	 
	 Title
	 	Administrative Trustee


  









 ABBREVIATIONS 
  
 The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they
were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations. 
  
 TEN COM—as tenants in common 
  
 TEN ENT—as
tenants by the entireties 
  
 JT TEN—as joint tenants with
right if survivorship and not as tenants in common 
  

	 UNIF GIFT MIN ACT—
	  	Custodian	  	 
		
	 	  	

	 	  	(Cust)                (Minor)	  	 
	 	  	 	  	 
		
	 	  	Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
		
	 	  	

	 	  	(State)

  
 Additional
abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 








  
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and tranfer(s) unto 
  
 PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY 
 OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE:

  

  

  
 PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS

 INCLUDING ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE: 
  

  

  

  
 the within
Capital Security and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing 
  

  
 attorney to transfer said Capital Security on the Security Register of the Trust, with full
power of substitution in the premises. 
  

	 Dated:
	 	  

	 	 	 	

	 	 	 	 	 	 	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of this Capital Security in every particular, without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatever.