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