May it please your Majesty
Wee your Majesty's most loyall subjects, newly incorporated by your Majesty's Charter and honoured with the name of the Royall Society, do with all humility present ourselfes before your Majesty, the Royall founder thereof, to offer you up our most hearty thanks, as the only way we have at present to expresse our deep sence of your Majesty's grace & favour to us; and to assure your Majesty of our constant adoration of your sacred person, our devotion to your Majesty's service, & our firme resolution to further sincerely & unanimously the end for which your Majesty hath founded this society. The advancement of the knowledge of natural things, & of all usefull arts by Experiments A design Sir that is deservedly accounted great & glorious, & is universally reputed to be of that advantage to mankind, that your Majesty is highly admir'd & extold for setting it on foot; and the society is already taken notice of & famous throughout all the learned parts of Europe and doubtless in time will be much more, by the continuance of your Majesty's gracious favour, & the happy successe of their endeavours; To the great encrease of the fame of your Majesty's prudence, which hath justly entitled you to the honour of laying the first foundation of the greatest improvement of learning & arts that they are capable of; and which hath never heretofore been attempted by any. So that men cannot now complain that the favour & assistance of a Potent Monarch is wanting to this long wishd for enterprise. And Sir our assurance of this your Majesty's favour & assistance to us is that which gives vigour to our resolutions, & is the life of our hopes. That in due season, we shall be able to make your Majesty an acceptable present of choise & usefull Experiments and accomplish your great design, being thereunto engag'd by so many powerfull motives. And in the meantime wee shall dayly pray That God will be eminently gracious to your Majesty, & accumulate upon you all the blessings answerable to the largnesse of your heart, the height of your erudition, the weight of your charge, the multitude of your virtues, & the desires & wishes of all your faithfull subjects.
My lord
All of us whom your Lordship hath thought fitt to be members of the Royall Society are come solemnly to acknowledge your Lordships favour to us, & to present our thankes; together with an assurance of our readinesse to serve your Lordship upon all occasions & of our desires to contribute the best we can to the greatnesse of your name which is already far more illustrious than that of a learned predecessour of yours a great & renowned chancellor of England, who is famous for haveing but pointed at that improvement of solid learning which is now by your hand so vigorously & effectually carried on. My Lord we are sensible of the importance of that duty now incumbent on us, to further diligently the ends for which our society is constituted. And hope that our Endeavours shall by Gods blessing become successfull for the honour of the King the Royall Founder of this society, & of your Lordship our noble patron; as well as for the good not only of his Majesty's Kingdomes, but of all mankind and suteable to the great Expectations of the learned abroad who are already primed to take a view of us. And the continuance of your Lordships favour to us, will both strengthen our confidence and quicken our endeavours; and withall give us cause to glory dayly more & more in those vows by which we have dedicated our labours to your Lordships service.