| Description | Present at the meeting: The President; Sir J Percivale; Mr Chamberlayne; Dr Mead; Mr Bemde; Dr Harwood; Dr Cockburn; Dr Sloane; Ssir Thomas Crisp
' Sir George Markham, Mr Bridges, Mr Whalley, Mr Williams, Mr Coleby, Dr Mills, and Mr Pratt were proposed, balloted for, and approved of to be Members of the Society.
Mr Chamberlayne was sworn of the Councill.
To the Councill of the Royal Society
John Thorpe proposes to serve the said Society in manner folowing, viz;
1. To constantly attend the Weekly Meetings of the Society as also the Meetings of the Councill (if required) to receive their Orders and Instructions, and be ready to execute their Commands.
2. To transcribe fairly and correctly the Minute-Books, Councill-Books, Letter-Books, and Registers; and carefully enter all Papers in their Respective Books.
3. To lay the said Books before the Councill twice in the Year, (viz: at the First Councill which shall be called after Midsummer, and at the first Councill that shall be called after Christmasse,) to show that they are brought up and perfected, and all Papers enter'd accordingly.
4. To transcribe into English all Papers, whether Latin, French, Italian, or Dutch, that the Secretaries shall think fit to command.
5. To take care of the Philosophical Transactions, according to the Orders and Directions of the President or Secretaries.
6. To transcribe all Papers for the Presse from the Originalls, that they may be preserved fair and entire to be reposited in the Archives of the Society.
7. To write out fair or copy whatsoever Letters or Papers the President or Secretaries shall order; and in all Particulars to follow their Directions.
8. To be further Subject to such Rules, Orders, and Directions as the Councill shall think fit to prescribe.
9. To observe and perform all the abovewritten Articles for the Yearly Salary of Forty pounds, to be paid twice a Year when the Books are brought up, as above mentioned.
The Councill agreed to be Proposals made by Mr Thorpe, and to pay him £40 per annum half yearly during pleasure, after a Months Notice of either side.
It was ordered that the Auditors of Accounts should know how the Accounts of the Society stand, that the Society may know how the Affair of their Revenues stand. '
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