| Description | Present at the Council: The President, Lord Brouncker; Lord Brereton; Mr Henry Howard; Mr Charles Howard; Mr Aerskine; Sir Paul Neile; Sir Anthony Morgan; Sir John Lowther; Mr Daniel Colwall; Mr Hoskyns; Mr Henry Oldenburg
The President gave notice that Mr Henry Howard had been pleased to set out the ground for building the Society's College, namely, one hundred feet one way, and forty feet the other. Sir Anthony Morgan was asked, and agreed, to draw up the conveyance of that ground, and to have it ready for the next Council meeting.
Lord Brereton and Mr Hoskyns were asked to speak with Mr Cheiny at Chelsey to ask him to let them see his conveyance of the Manor of Chelsey.
Sir Anthony Morgan and Mr Hoskyns were asked to appear next Tuesday in Westminster Hall, to defend the possession taken by the Society of Chelsey-college against the pretensions of Mr Cole.
Resolved that Lord Brereton, Mr Henry Howard, Mr Aerskine, Sir Paul Neile, Sir Anthony Morgan and Sir John Lowther meet next Tuesday at the President's house at six of the clock in the morning, and together with the President attend the Lord Privy Seal about the dispatch of the Patent, endeavouring to satisfy him on the point of non-alienation.
Ordered that the Secretary write to Dr Wren to ask him to attend Mr Henry Howard at Oxford about the draft of the Society's building.
Ordered that the Treasurer pay thirty three pounds and ten shillings to Richard Shortgrave for the workmen employed for making the house at Chelsey-college tenantable, on submission of acquittances of payment to the workmen both for this sum and for the former sum of thirty pounds.
The Curator informed the Council that he had now met a man fit to be employed in the labour of making experiments for the Society, for twenty pounds a year; and if employed the Curator would not fail to bring in three experiments at every meeting. The Council ordered the man should be employed on a three months trial, and employed not only by the Curator but by other Fellows in making anatomical or other experiments.
Mr Hook promised that he would try to dispatch the Catalogue of the Library, by attending to it for two whole afternoons. |