These are to give notice that on Friday next the thirtieth day of this instant November, 1677, being St. Andrew's day, the council and officers of the Royal Society are to be elected for the year ensuing. At which election your presence is expected in Gresham Colledge at nine of the clock in the forenoon precisely.
(For John Aubrey, esq.)
Brouncker, P. R. S.
Notes.
[BI] He was President, 1663, from the incorporation of the Royal Society, to 1677.
[BJ] He was a Lord of the Admiralty in 1680, and again in 1682.
[BK] The signature is in long sloping letters, like the children's puzzles of thirty years' back, which could be read only when the paper was held edgeways. It has beaten Anthony Wood, who notes at the side:—'What this name is I know not.'
William Browne (1591-1645).
[499]The earle of Carnarvon does not remember Mr. Brown[BL], and I ask't his lordship lately again if any of his servants doe: he assures me no.