Neale, [Sir Paul Neile, of White Waltham, Berks, eldest son to
Neile, Archbishop of York.] Sir R. Murrey, [One of the Founders
of the Royal Society, made a Privy Counsellor for Scotland after
the Restoration.] Dr. Clerke, Dr. Whistler, [Daniel Whistler,
Fellow of Merton College, took the degree of M.D. at Leyden,
1645; and after practising in London, went as Physician to the
Embassy, with Bulstrode Whitlock, into Sweden. On his return he
became Fellow, and at length President, of the College of
Physicians. Ob. 1684.] Dr. Goddard, [Jonathan Goddard, M.D.,
F.R.S. He had been Physician to Cromwell.] and others, of the
most eminent worth. Above all, Mr. Boyle was at the meeting, and
above him Mr. Hooke, who is the most, and promises the least, of
any man in the world that ever I saw. Here excellent discourse
till ten at night, and then home.
17th. Povy tells me how my Lord Barkeley will say openly, that
he hath fought more set fields than any man in England hath done.
18th. At noon, to the Royall Oak taverne in Lombard Street;
where Sir William Petty and the owners of the double-bottomed
boat (the Experiment) did entertain my Lord Brouncker, Sir A.
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