"To the President of the Society,
Lord Brouncker.
"My Lord:
"In obedience to an order of the Royal Society, dated the 28th of November last, appointing us to consider and report the Structure and Sailing of Sir William Petty's double bottomed ship, we have proceeded as followeth, viz.
"The members of the society meeting did, in the first place, issue an order that as many ingenious gentlemen, especially such as had been most conversant in naval affairs, who were in and near this town, together with the chief shipwrights and seamen of this place, should be desired to meet and confer about the premises, which accordingly was done; and there was an appearance of the several persons undernamed, viz:
Of the Society:
The Lord Massareene,
Sir Anthony Morgan,
Dr. Peter Pett,
Mr. Southwall, and
Sir William Petty, himself.
Together with Dr. Woods, Mr. Muschamp, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Armory, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Lancelot, Capt. Samuel Molyneux, Capt. Webbe, Capt. Gloner, Mr. Bathurst, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Osberne, and Mr. William Pett, master shipwright.
