Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was going to bring up the same claim—of it being a "Letter, from Robert Hooke to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz". It's clearly not written with that intent. While reading, I first took it to be a journal entry. The penmanship also supports this. But the second person "you" at the end is a confounding detail. A journal entry in the form of a letter to himself is possible, but doesn't seem plausible. The word you've label…
FYI I agree with you on that word: letter by letter it looks to me like "Roeade", but I can't figure out what English word that would be, either.
UPDATE: I'm now convinced the word is indeed "recede," and have updated the transcript accordingly. While we no longer speak of a singular person as "receding" from a position or principle, that was apparently a set phrase in the 17th and 18th centuries:
https://archive.org/search?query=%22recede+from+these+princi...