[269] Dr. Wilkins and Oldenburg were Joint-Secretaries, but Oldenburg did all the work. [270] Still in constant use. [271] By which the Society is still governed. [272] Evelyn’s _Diary_, November 30, 1663. [273] Pepys’s _Diary_, November 30, 1668. [274] Record of the Royal Society of London, 1912. [275] London, 1661. [276] Oxford, 1661. [277] Dr. Saunderson. It is to be remembered that Lord Broghill, as one of the Lords Justices, had the drawing up of the Act of Settlement, and that the Boyle family were already great Irish landowners, and with hereditary claims on the country for personal service and sacrifice in the Protestant and Royalist cause. [278] Boyle to the Bishop of Cork, May 27, 1662: Birch, vi. [279] Now among the relics of the Royal Society at Burlington House. [280] Evelyn’s _Diary_, May 7, 1662. [281] Evelyn speaks of Mr. Povy’s “well contrived cellar and other elegancies,” and again of his “pretty cellar and the ranging of his wine-bottles.” [282] Oldenburg to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [283] Sorbière, _Relation d’un voyage en Angleterre_, 1664. Oldenburg’s correspondents in various countries. [284] Butler’s _The Elephant in the Moon_. [285] _An Examen of Mr. Hobbes’ Dialogus Physicus de Naturâ Æris._ [286] Daubigney Turberville, of Oriel College: M.D. Oxford, 1660, the well-known oculist, who, at Boyle’s suggestion, later practised in London (see Pepys’s _Diary_). [287] Evelyn’s _Diary_, October 24, 1664. [288] Oldenburg to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [289] Evelyn, January 1665. [290] The boat foundered in the Bay of Biscay, and Petty was censured for “rashness,” but he persisted in believing in his invention. See Evelyn, March 22, 1675. Petty’s invention is one of the relics of the Royal Society in Burlington House. [291] Pepys, December 17, 1664. [292] Pepys, March 1, 1665. [293] Pepys, February 15, 1665. [294] _Memoirs of the Comte de Grammont._ [295] The great victory over the Dutch, June 3, 1665. Lord Burlington’s second son, Mr. Richard Boyle, was killed on the _Royal Charles_. [296] See Evelyn and Pepys for 1665-6. [297] _Autobiography of the Countess of Warwick_ (Percy Society). [298] Hooke to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [299] From Hampton Court to Salisbury, and then to Oxford. [300] Nonsuch was selected for the offices of the Exchequer, and they seem to have gone to Durdans, Lord Berkeley’s house near Epsom. [301] Lady Ranelagh to Mr. Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [302] Boyle’s niece, Lord Burlington’s daughter. [303] Lady Ranelagh to Boyle, September 9, 1665: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [304] The poet Waller’s house, Hall Barn, Beaconsfield. [305] Lady Anglesey’s house, near Epping. [306] F.R.S., President of the Royal College of Physicians. [307] Oldenburg to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [308] Oldenburg to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [309] Lady Ranelagh to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi.