| Description | Present at the Council: The President, Lord Brouncker; Earl Marshall; Lord Stafford; Lord Bishop of Salisbury; Mr Charles Howard; Sir John Lowther; Mr Daniel Colwall; Mr Abraham Hill; Mr Hoskins; Dr Croon; Mr Henry Oldenburg; Mr Pepys
The Council considered the necessity of securing the weekly payments for carryiing on the work of the Society and having consulted the Treasurer's Book concerning the persons who could be looked upon as good paymasters, they found 57 people (names listed)
Others were found which the Council thought could be asked whether they were willing to comply with the new Regulation of the Society for paying their arrears and by assuring their payment for the future. Dr Croon, the Earl Marshall, Lord Stafford, Mr Hoskins and MR Oldenburg were assigned names (listed)
The Lord Marshall proposed that those absent in remote places might be considered.
The President suggested that it was necessary to first secure the Anneversary Elections, at which there must be present 31 Fellows, and therefore such a number of Fellows to be fixed as may be likely to afford such a number of electors. |