his Majesty's original grant to be of this Council for the regulation of the Society, and making laws and statutes conducible to its establishment and

progress, for which we for which we now set apart every Wednesday morning till they were all finished.1 Lord Viscount Brouncker (that excellent mathematician) was also by his Majesty, our founder, nominated our first President. The King gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms, and sent us a mace of silver gilt, of the same fashion and bigness as those carried before his Majesty, to be borne before our president on meeting days. It was brought by Sir Gilbert Talbot, Master of his Majesty's Jewel-house.

22nd August. I dined with my Lord Brouncker and Sir Robert Murray, and then went to consult about a new-modelled ship at Lambeth, the intention being to reduce that art to as certain a method as any other part of architecture.

23rd. I was spectator of the most magnificent triumph that ever floated on the Thames, considering the innumerable boats and vessels, dressed and adorned with all imaginable pomp, but, above all, the thrones, arches, pageants, and other representations, stately barges of the Lord Mayor and Companies, with various inventions, music and peals of ordnance both from the vessels and the shore, going to meet and conduct the new Queen

1 [See ante, pp. 157, 172, 190. The Society's full title was "The President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London, for and improving of natural Knowledge." In 1667 Thomas Sprat, afterwards Bishop of Rochester, and one of the original Fellows, wrote its history, which included an Ode by Cowley. Henry Oldenburg, 1615-77, was the first Secretary.] 2 [See ante, p. 168.]

3 An account of this solemnity was published in Aqua Triumphalis being a true relation of the honourable the City of London entertaining their sacred Majesties upon the river of Thames, and welcoming them from Hampton Court to Whitehall, etc. Engraved by John Tatham, Gent., folio, 1662.

from Hampton Court to Whitehall, at the first time of her coming to town. In my opinion, it far exceeded all the Venetian Bucentoras, etc., on the Ascension, when they go to espouse the Adriatic.1 His Majesty and the Queen came in an antique-shaped open vessel, covered with a state, or canopy, of cloth of gold, made in form of a cupola, supported with high Corinthian pillars, wreathed with flowers, festoons and garlands. I was in our new-built vessel, sailing amongst them.

29th August. The Council and Fellows of the Royal Society went in a body to Whitehall, to acknowledge his Majesty's royal grace in granting our Charter, and vouchsafing to be himself our Founder; when the President made an eloquent speech, to which his Majesty gave a gracious reply, and we all kissed his hand. Next day, we went in like manner with our address to my Lord Chancellor, who had much promoted our patent: he received us with extraordinary favour. In the evening, I went to the Queen-Mother's Court, and had much discourse with her.

1st September. Being invited by Lord Berkeley, I went to Durdans,2 where dined his Majesty, the Queen, Duke, Duchess, Prince Rupert, Prince Edward, and abundance of noblemen. I went, after dinner, to visit my brother of Woodcote, my sister having been delivered of a son a little before, but who had now been two days dead.

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4th. Commission for Charitable Uses, my Lord Mayor and Aldermen being again summoned, and the improvements of Sir Thomas Gresham's estate examined. There were present the Bishop of London, the Lord Chief Justice, and the King's Attorney.

1 [See ante, vol. i. p. 287.]
3 [At Epsom.]

VOL. II

2 [See ante, p. 134.]

6th September. Dined with me Sir Edward Walker, Garter King-at-Arms, Mr. Slingsby, Master of the Mint,2 and several others.

17th. We now resolved that the Arms of the Society should be a field Argent, with a canton of the arms of England; the supporters two talbots Argent: crest, an eagle Or holding a shield with the like arms of England, viz. three lions. The words Nullius in verba. It was presented to his Majesty for his approbation, and orders given to Garter King-at-Arms to pass the diploma of their office for it.

20th. I presented a petition to his Majesty about my own concerns, and afterwards accompanied him to Monsieur Lefevre, his chemist (and who had formerly been my master in Paris), to see his accurate preparation for the composing Sir Walter Raleigh's rare cordial: he made a learned discourse before his Majesty in French on each ingredient.

27th. Came to visit me Sir George Savile, grandson to the learned Sir Henry Savile, who published St. Chrysostom. Sir George was a witty gentleman, if not a little too prompt and daring.

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3rd October. I was invited to the College of Physicians, where Dr. Merret,' a learned man and library-keeper, showed me the library, theatre for anatomy, and divers natural curiosities; the statue and epigram under it of that renowned physician, Dr. Harvey, discoverer of the circulation of the blood. There I saw Dr. Gilbert, Sir William

1 [See post, under 18th August, 1673.]
2 See post, under 27th August, 1666.]
3 Horace, Ep. I. 1. 14.]

4 [See ante, p. 1.]

5 Afterwards the celebrated Marquis of Halifax, 1633-95. 6 [Sir Henry Savile, 1549-1622. His Chrysostom was published 1610-13.]

7 Christopher Merret, 1614-95, a celebrated physician and naturalist, and fellow of the Royal Society.

Paddy's and other pictures of men famous in their faculty.

Visited Mr. Wright,' a Scotchman, who had lived long at Rome, and was esteemed a good painter. The pictures of the Judges at Guildhall are of his hand, and so are some pieces in Whitehall, as the roof in his Majesty's old bedchamber, being Astræa, the St. Catherine, and a chimneypiece in the Queen's privy chamber; but his best, in my opinion, is Lacy, the famous Roscius or comedian, whom he has painted in three dresses, as a gallant, a Presbyterian minister, and a Scotch highlander in his plaid. It is in his Majesty's dining-room at Windsor. He had at his house an excellent collection, especially that small piece of Correggio, Scotus of de la Marca, a design of Paolo; and, above all, those ruins of Polydore, with some good agates and medals, especially a Scipio, and a Cæsar's head of gold.

15th October. I this day delivered my Discourse concerning Forest - Trees to the Society, upon occasion of certain queries sent to us by the Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy, being the first book that was printed by order of the

1 [See ante, p. 137.]

2 A private etching from this picture was made in 1825 by William Hopkins, one of the Court pages. John Lacy, d. 1681, is represented in his three principal characters, namely, Teague, in The Committee; Scruple, in The Cheats; and Galliard, in The Variety. He belonged to Killigrew's company, and was the original actor of " Bayes" of Buckingham's Rehearsal, 1671.

3 [Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majestie's Dominions. By J. E., Esq.; As it was Deliver'd in the Royal Society the XVth of October, CİɔɔCLXII., upon Occasion of certain Quæries propounded to that Illustrious Assembly, by the Honourable the Principal Officers, and Commissioners of the Navy. To which is annexed Pomona; or, an Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to Cider, the Making and several ways of Ordering it. Published by express Order of the Royal Society. Also Kalendarium Hortense; or, Gard'ner's Almanac; directing what he is to do Monethly during the Year. London, 1664.]

Society, and by their printer, since it was a Corporation.

16th October. I saw Volpone1 acted at Court before their Majesties.

21st. To the Queen-Mother's Court, where her Majesty related to us divers passages of her escapes during the Rebellion and wars in England.

28th. To Court in the evening, where the Queen - Mother, the Queen - Consort, and his Majesty, being advertised of some disturbance, forbore to go to the Lord Mayor's show and feast appointed next day, the new Queen not having yet seen that triumph.

29th. Was my Lord Mayor's Show, with a number of sumptuous pageants, speeches, and verses. I was standing in a house in Cheapside against the place prepared for their Majesties. The Prince and heir of Denmark was there, but not our King. There were also the maids of honour. I went to Court this evening, and had much discourse with Dr. Basire, one of his Majesty's chaplains, the great traveller, who showed me the syngraphs and original subscriptions of divers eastern patriarchs and Asian churches to our confession.

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4th November. I was invited to the wedding of the daughter of Sir George Carteret (the Treasurer of the Navy and King's Vice-Chamberlain), married to Sir Nicholas Slaning, Knight of the Bath, by the Bishop of London, in the Savoy chapel; after which was an extraordinary feast.

5th. The Council of the Royal Society met to 1 [Volpone; or, the Fox, by Ben Jonson, 1605. Pepys saw this at the King's House on the 14th January, 1665.] The

2 Sir John Robinson, Knt. and Bart., Clothworker. pageant on this occasion, which was the same as in the preceding year (see note, ante, p. 176), was at the charge of the Clothworkers' Company.

3 Basire (see ante, p. 177).

4 [See ante, p. 15.]