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John Cutler, with their Tlianks for his particular Favour to a worthy 

 Member. and for that liesi)ect and ("ontidence he hath hereh\ exi)re>t 

 towards their whole Body, etc."= 



From tills time he brought in almost at every Meeting Experiments, 

 Observations, Schemes of new Instruments and Inventions, or something 

 considerable to the advancement of Knowledge, and very frequently read 

 his Cutlerian lectures, of many whereof he published, the most material 

 l)art> in his Tract Printed at different times, in Quarto, call'd Lectures 

 and Collections, &c. comprizing compendiously in one eontinu'd Dis- 

 course, tlie chief ]V[atters and Subjocls handled in several Lectures. 



Thui the senerous Ardor with which the Eo^al Societv wn^ iu-pir'd 

 continued 'till the Year Ififir,. when, by reason of tlie -roat :\Iortaity 

 then reigning, they were oblig'd to desist and break up their Weekly 

 MeetiuG's till the fourteenth of March 1()G;1. . . . 



The dreadful Conflagration of a great part of the City oC London 

 happening in the beginning of September 1666. brought another srreat 

 hindrance to the Societies Proceedings: so that tliey were oblig'd to 

 remove their usual place of Meeting from Gresham Colhnr to AruiuVl 

 House in the Strand, where, by the favour of the then l^uke of X.nfull, 



ITousrbeinsr on the ninth of Jan.lQQ . 



On the nineteenth of Sep. 16G6. he produc'd a :^ro<luIe he liad 

 dcsisrn'.l for the Rebuilding of the City, with which the Socictii were 

 very well i)ioasM. and Sir John Laurence the then Late Lord Major, ad- 



Aldprmcns hVnv- Iher.-of. as also their desire that it micrht be shewn to 

 his Ma jest, I. they pn^txTi^ine it far before the Model drawn up by the 



AVhat this :\rodol was. I cannot so well determine, but I have heard 

 that it was desi-n'd in it to have all the chief Streets as from Leaden- 

 Tlall comer to Newgate, and the like, to lie in an exact strait Line, and 

 all the other cross Streets turnini? out of them at ritrht Angles, all the 

 Churches, publick Buildings, Market-places, and the like, in proper and 

 convenient places, which, no doubt, would have added much to the 

 Beauty and Symmetr\- of the whole. How this came not to be accepted 

 of I know not. but it is probal)le tiiis migfit contribute not a little to his 

 beine taken notice ot¥ by the :\rairi-trates of the City, and soon after 

 made Surveyor. 



The Rebuilding of the City, according to the Act of Parliament, re- 

 riuirin? an able Person to set out the Ground to the several Proprietors, 



^ From the Journal of the Secretary of the Boyal Society, November 9, 

 1664. 



