| Description | Present at the Council; The President, Lord Brouncker; Lord Henry howard; Mr Aerskine; Sir Robert Moray; Sir Gilbert Talbot; Sir George Ent; Sir Theodore de Vaux; Dr Jonathan Goddard; Dr Clark; Mr Henshaw; Mr John Evelyn; Mr Daniel Colwall; Mr Henry Oldenburg
The President took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy as required by the Additional Charter.
The President nominated and constituted Sir Robert Moray and Dr Goddard as two Vice-Presidents, as the same charter gave power to the President to appoint as many Vice - Presidents out of the Council as he shall think fit. Both Sir Robert Moray and Dr Goddard also took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.
Ordered that the ten pounds advanced by the Treasurer to Thomas Willizel as part of the thirty pounds appointed him by the Council for one year, be allowed him upon his presenting his receipt; payment to begin from 25 March last.
Ordered Lord Brereton, Mr Charles Howard, Mr Aerskine, Sir Robert Moray, Mr Evelyn, Mr Henshaw, Mr Hoskyns, or any three or more of them to be a Committee to consider the improvements to be made of his Majesty's grant of Chelsey - college, by establishing what may belong to it, by conferring with Mr Chainy, about those acres he still has in lease of the land to the College, and by commuting parcels of land with the same, in case he shall surrender his interest upon equitable terms to the Royal Society. Also that the Committee maeet at Lord Breretons lodgings in Channel - Row, beginning next Saturday about five of the clock in the evening, and that they make a report to the Council.
A form of certificate was read from the Council of the Royal Society for Thomas Willizel, and ordered to be reviewed by Mr Hoskins, and after the President's approval sent to Thomas Willizel.
Sir Theodore de Vaux renewed the motion made formerly concerning the exchange of the manuscripts in the Arundel Librarry, bestowed by the Lord Howard upon the Royal Society. The Council adhered to their former vote, and the Lord Henry Howard declared, that as he had formerly left to the Council the full disposal of the Library, so he did still, asking only that it might not be imputed to him, as if he were a hinderer of that exchange, he being indifferent whether they were to be kept by the Society or exchanged by the Society with the University of Oxford.
The Transactions of Number 47 were licensed. |