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sir CHRISTOPHER WREN, knt.

other Motives for other Things, only we expect you will signify to us yourReadiness to comply with his Majesty's Pleasure; and you may be sure wewill improve it as much to your Honour and Advantage, as is possible forRtuch honoured Friend,

Tour mojl affectionate humble Servants,

Whitehall, 17 May,

l66u R. Moray, P. Neile. '

Second Letter from Sir Robert Moray. Lo Dr. Wren, &c.

My worthy Friend,

S INCE my last I told the King you had finished your Lunar Globe,and desired to know what are his further Commands; and he com-manded me to let you know, he would have you bring it hither to him. Ihave also to tell you, that in Compliance with your Desire to be eased osthe further Talk of drawing the Figures of small Insects by the Help of theMicroscope, we have moved his Majesty to lay his Commands on another,

One Vander Diver ; and we have also persuaded Mr. Hook, to undertake thelame Thing. This is all the Trouble you shall now have from, my worthyfriend,

Tour real humble Servant,

Whitehall, 13 Augnji,

*66*• R. Moray.

N. B. Sir Robert Moray, one of his Majesty’s Privy Council in Scotland, [CharaBer ofWas an excellent Mathematician, and well versed in Natural Philosophy and^^ M B«-‘^hymistry ; he was among the first who modelled, instituted, and promoted net. Eclurd,the Royal Society , and was elected the second, after the Lord Brounker, Pre-^Mhdent. He was universally beloved and esteemed ; of so great Piety, that inthe Midst of Armies and Courts, he spent many Hours a Day in Devotion.

He had an Equality of Temper in him that nothing could alter; and was inPractice a Stoick. He had a Superiority of Genius and Comprehension toRtost Men. He had a most diffused Love to all Mankind, and delighted inevery Occasion of doing Good, which he managed with great Discretion andXeal. —A Character so parallel in all Points, to that of Sir Chrijiopher Wren,

Naturally produced a most friendly and inviolable Attachment to each other.

Me died suddenly at Whitehall , and being particularly in tilt King’s Favour,

Was at his Majesty’s own Charge, buried in Wejhninjler-Abbey, in the Year1673.

In Observance of the King’s Commands, and Directions of the Royalsociety *, the Globe of the Moon in solid Work was accurately finished, and* pe,,es co! ~Presented to his Majesty at Whitehall, fixed on a Pedestal of Lignum Vitœ, lea °’ m 'piously turned, with this Inscription engraved on the Foot, and a Scale ofMiles.

CAROLO SECVNDOM. BR. FR. ET HIB. R.

CVIVS AMPLITVDINI QVIA VNVS NONSVFFICIT

NOVVM HVNC ORBEM SELENOSPHÆRIQEXPRESS VMD. D. D.

CHR. WREN.

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