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ready received £475 (including £28 paid to Mr. Roberton), which 

 with £328 awarded by Mr. Drinkwater Bethune, to whom this matter 

 was referred, is £803, and the expense of printing the same has 

 been £657 : 10. The legal expenses in the present year have been 

 greater than usual, in consequence of the costs in the above reference, 

 amounting to £48 : 10 : 6, and those in the matter of the Royal So- 

 ciety V. Loscombe, amounting to £114 : 12 : 10, which have been 

 incurred in prosecuting, under the advice of Counsel, the claim of 

 the Society to £1200 3 per cent, consols bequeathed to the Royal 

 Society by the late Sir Clifton Wintringham, payable on the death 

 of his widow. 



The expenses of defending the suit in respect of the Mablethorpe 

 tithes have been considerable ; and in consequence of the decision of 

 Lord Abinger in the Court of Exchequer in July last, the income 

 which the Society derives from that estate will be materially di- 

 minished, unless that decision can be reversed by appeal to the 

 House of Lords. 



The Society derives Income from the rent of an estate at Mable- 

 thorpe in Lincolnshire ; from a fee-farm rent issuing out of the Ba- 

 rony of Lewes, in Sussex ; from the rent of an estate at Acton ; and 

 one fifth of the clear rent of an estate at Lambeth Hill, from the 

 Royal College of Physicians, in pursuance of Lady Sadleir's Will. 

 These rents are as follows : 



Estate at Mablethorpe . . . £107 



Lands at Acton 60 



Fee-farm rent of lands in Sussex . . 19 4 

 Estate at Lambeth Hill 3 



£189 4 ~0 



The estate at Mablethorpe consists of 55 a. 2 r. 2 p. of pasture 

 land, and is let to Mr. Cross, at £107 per annum, who is tenant at 

 will. The lands at Acton appear to consist now of 33 a. 3 r. 36 p., 

 and are let to Mr. Essex, at £60 per annum, who is tenant at vidll. 



The property at Acton was purchased by the Society, with other 

 lands since sold, in August 1732. 



The lands at Mablethorpe were bequeathed to the Society by 

 Francis Aston, Esq. in 1713. 



The fee-farm rent in Sussex issuing out of the Barony of Lewes 

 was purchased by the Society with £400 bequeathed to the Society 

 by the Bishop of Chester in June 1674, and is now payable by the 

 Earl of Abergavenny. 



The Society also derives income from 



Dividends in Stock £529 11 2 



* Quarterly and Weekly Contributions about 667 

 Sale of Philosophical Transactions about . . 350 

 also whatever may be received for the Admission Fees, or Compo- 

 sition of new members, which is fluctuating. The Admissions 

 have been on an average of the last five years thirty-four, which 

 would give £340 per annum for Admission Fees of £10 each ; and 

 the average sums received from members who have compounded for 

 * This sum is on the increase. 



