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RefNoCMO/1/136
AltRefNopages 147-148
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of meeting
Date2 January 1668
DescriptionPresent at the Council: The President, Lord Brouncker; Lord Bishop of Salisbury; Henry Howard of Norfolk; Sir Paul Neile; Sir John Lowther; Dr Wilkins; Mr Hayes; Mr Hoskyns; Mr Creed; Mr Henry Oldenburg

Sir John Lowther and Mr Hayes were sworn as Members of the Council.

Ordered that the President, the Bishop of Salisbury, Sir Paul Neile and Dr Wilkins be asked to speak the following Monday with the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury about Chelsey-College, and to meet for that purpose at Sir Paul Neile's lodgings.

Mr Panton appeared before the Council requesting their assistance in promoting his design to establish a Royal Academy for the educating of young gentlemen in good manners, languages, arts and sciences, and generous exercises. The Concil replied that though they well approved of the design, and would promote it individually, they could not do so as a body unless it was busines which arose from among themselves, or came to them by way of reference.

The business of voluntary contributions for building a College was moved again, and after discussion it was decided;
'That those, that had a mind to contribute, should not be obliged to subscribe their respective Summes, till the total of the subscriptions amounted to one thousand pounds: And that those of the Council, that had most interest to engage others, both of the Society, and without it, should be desired to employ the same, in speaking to persons of both Sorts, and to learn the Summe of their intended Contributions, thereby to make an Estimate, what the toatall was like to amount to.'
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