| Description | Lists the eleven members of Council present - Lord Brouncker, Sir Robert Moray, Mr Boyle, Mr Aerskine [Erskine], Dr Ent, Dr Goddard, Dr Clark, Mr Balle, Mr Palmer, Mr Hill, Mr Oldenburg
Ordered that Dr Goddard deliver the Charter of the Society to Mr Elias Ashmole to enrol the Arms of the Society and the clause concerning the same in the Herald's office.
The Committee presented to the Council the draft of the Obligation to be subscribed by the Fellows of the Society, and after some discussion and alteration the wording was agreed and recorded.
Ordered that the Committee bring in a draft of a Statute for the Obligation at the next meeting of the Council.
Ordered that the Council be summoned to meet on Wednesday next in the morning, between 9 and 10 of the clock, to consider changing the time of their meeting.
Letter read from Ireland to the Secretary concerning the 'expectation which the Committee, that heretofore had given the Society an account of Sir William Petty's new ship, did entertain for hearing the sense of the Society thereupon, and it was ordered that the Committee should be put in mind by the Secretary that the matter of navigation, being a state concern, was not proper to be managed by the Society; and that Sir William Petty, for his private satisfaction, may, when he pleases, have the sense (if he has not had it already) of particular Members of the Society, concerning his new invention'. |