to prove that its Effects will more immediately refer to our own Country.
My Reader now beholds an Assembly settled of many eminent Men of all Qualities, who have engag'd to bestow their Labours on a design so publick, and so free from all Suspicion of mean or private Interest. What Foundation they have within themselves, for defraying the Expence of their Trials and Intelligence, may be guess'd by their Number, which at this present amounts very near to two Hundred; as appears by this following Catalogue, which I have rang'd Alphabetically.
The King's Majesty, Founder and Patron.
His Royal Highness the Duke of York.
His Highness Prince Rupert.
His Highness Ferdinand Albert, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh.
The Duke of Albemarle, the Earl of Ailsbury, the Earl of Argile, the Lord Ashley, the Lord Annesly, Mr. Ashmole, Sir Robert Atkins, Mr. Austin, Mons. Auzout, Mr. Awbrey.
The Duke of Buckingham, the Lord George Berkeley, the Lord Brereton, Mr. Bagnal, Mr. Bains, Mr. William Balle, Mr. Isaac Barrow, Dr. George Bate, Dr. Bathurst, Dr. Beal, Mons. Beaufort de Frasars, Sir John Birkenhead, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Boyl, Mr. Brook, Dr. Bruce, Mons. Bullialdus, Mr. Burnet, Sir Edward Byshe.
The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury; the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor of England; the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Craford and Lindsay, the Lord Cavendish, Mr. Carkess, Mr. Carteret
