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  <dc:title>Draft of a petition from the Royal Society to Queen Anne, for leave to petition Parliament to insert a clause 'in the bill now depending...for impowering your Majesty to grant them a piece of land' in the Royal Mews, for the purpose of building a house for the Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>In Sir Isaac Newton's hand.

The letter states that the Royal Society is in need of a new home due to the "pulling down and rebuilding of [Gresham] College in a new form which will afford your petitioners no convenient accommodation".</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1700s</dc:date>
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