[ Autographs ] WILLIAM BROUNCKER (1620 - 1684) Irish mathematician and a colleague of Samuel Pepys who described Brouncker as "a rotten-hearted false man." Founder and first president of the Royal Society.D.S. 1p. oblong 4to., [n.p.], Dec. 30, 1672, a receipt for 250 pounds received from the officers of the Tally Court collected from the clergy in the Salisbury diocese. Light soiling along edges, otherwise very good.