| Description | Present at the Council: Sir William Petty Vice President; Ssir Robert Southwell; Dr Jonathan Goddard; Mr Daniel Colwall; Mr Oldenburg
Discussed the business of engaging the Members of the Society to enter into a legal Obligation for their weekly payments; the Declaration drawn up by Sir William Petty and Dr Goddard; and the Form for sujmmoning the Society to return to their weekly meetings. Ordered;
1. Sir Robert Southwell to consult the Attorney General for his advice in drawing up a legally binding Form
2. The Declaration and the form for Summons to be read again and considered at the next Council.
Mr Hook reported that Sir Jonas More had been with him at Chelsey College and suggested engaging a gardener to take a lease of the house and land about it for a large number of years, on condition of repairing the house and wall and to pay an annual rent, allowing the Society to make horticultural experiments there, as also to build an Astoronomical Observatory, which Sir Jonas Moore himself woudl undertake at his own charge to the value of £150 or £200. This proposition was well accepted by the Council, and Mr Hook wa asked to encourage Sir Jonas Moore to proceed further.
The £400 legacy was also discussed. Council asked that Sir John Lowther, Sir William Petty and Mr Hook meet to reopen the proposal by Sir Willliam Petty of laying out that sum on a house of the late Mr Grant standing in Birchen Lane.
Voted on the 2nd Statute of the 4th Chapter of the Book of Statutes of the Royal Society; the Statute was repealed. |