| Description | Present at the C ouncil: Mr Henshaw; Sir John Hoskins; Mr Hall; Sir John Lowther; Mr Abraham Hill
Ordered that Mr Hall and Mr Hooke attend the Duke of Norfolk and entreat him from the Royal Society, that ' seeing his Grace is now pulling downe his house, he will be pleased to Suffer his Library he bestowed on this Society to be removed to Gresham Colledge, where is room on purpose provided for the same and that they also then deliver to his Grace the Catalogue of the said Library '.
Ordered that the tiles and timber of Chelsey [Chelsea] College be taken down and secured somewhere nearby, and that Mr Henshaw be asked to direct some person to go about pulling it down forthwith. |