| Description | Present: The President; Mr Folkes; Dr Harwood; Mr Watkins; Mr Brown; Sir Hans Sloane; Lord Parker; Mr Jones; Dr Jurin
' Ordered that Mr Hauksbee's Bill Amounting to £60-18-6 be paid him by the Treasurer.
Ordered tht the Necessary Repairs of the House given in by Mr Hauksbee be done during the Recess of the Society.
Ordered that Mr Foles's Bill amounting £16-12-6 for acausing Several Books in the Norfolk Library (of which he delivered in a Catalogue) to be Bound be paid by the Treasurer.
Ordered, that Mr Folkes be desired to proceed in causing Such Books to be Bound as he shall judge Necessary.
The President acquanted the Council, that the Petition of the Society to the King, for his Majesty's Royal Licence of Mortmain, had been lost, or mislaid, in the Secretaries Office. Upon which it was Resolved, that a new Petition of the Same TEnour with the former should be presented to his Majeasty; and the Petition being drawn up by Mr Frewin the Societies Seal was put to it, and the Petition was Signed by the President and by the Members of the Council Present.
Ordered that Mr Frewin the Sollicitor do take care to deliver the Petition at the Secretaries Office, in Order to its being Signed by his Majesty.
Ordered tht the Treasurer of the Society pay to Mr Frewin the Sum of Sixty pounds on Account.
Mr Frewin delivered to the Council the Deed of Covenant between the Society and Mr Brawn touching the Writings of the Houses in Crane Court, dated April 23rd 1724 which Deed was Ordered to be put into the Society's STron Box. |