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fation, as he was bound to do that it might not be deem'd a 
Calumny, infilled only upon his own Candour, as if it would 
be Injullice to queftion it , and refus’d to tell how he came 
by the Method ; and faid that the Acta, Lipfica had given 
every Man his due, and that he had concealed the Inven- 
tion above Nine Years, (hefhould have faid Seven Years) that 
No body might pretend (he means that Mr. Newton might not 
pretend) to have been before him in it ; and called Mr. Keill a 
Novice unacquainted with things pad, and one that aefted with- 
out Authority from Mr. Newton, and a clamorous Man who 
deferved to be filenced, and defired that Mr. Newton himfelf 
would give his Opinion in the Matter. He knew that 
Mr. KeilL affirmed nothing more than what Dr. Wallis had 
publifhed thirteen Years before, without being then contra- 
di&ed. He knew that Mr. Newton had given his Opinion in 
this matter in the Introduction to his Book of Quadratures, 
publifhed before this Controverfy began : but Dr. Wallis was 
dead ; the Mathematicians which remained in England were 
Novices ; Mr. Leibnitz may Queftion any Man’s Candour 
without Injuftke, and Mr. Newton mull now retradl what he 
had publifhed or not be quiet. ,;j 
The Royal-Society therefore, having as much Authority 
over Mr. Leibnitz as over Mr. Keill, and being now twice 
prefled by Mr. Leibnitz to interpofe, and feeing no reafon to 
condemn or cenfure Mr. Keill without enquiring into the mat- 
ter ; and that neither Mr. Newton nor Mr. Leibnitz ( the only 
Perfons alive who knew and remembred any thing of what 
had palled in thefe matters Forty Years ago,) could be Wic- 
* nefles for or againft Mr. Keill 5 appointed a numerous Com- 
mittee to fearch old Letters and Papers,and report their Opinion 
upon what they found ; and ordered the Letters and Papers, 
with the Report of their Committee to be publifhed. And by 
thefe Letters and Papers it appear’d to them, that Mr. Newton 
had the Method in or before the Year 1 669, and it did not 
appear to them that Mr. Leibnitz had it before the Year 1677. 
For 
