Charles II: February 1662

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, Addenda 1660-1685. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1939.

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'Charles II: February 1662', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, Addenda 1660-1685, (London, 1939) pp. 38-39. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas2/addenda/1660-85/pp38-39 [accessed 23 April 2024]

February 1662

Feb. 5. Warrant from the Commissioners for discharging the Navy to Sir Thomas Player for payment out of the three months' assess ment of 125l. 2s. 10d. to Thomas Poynter, late purser of the Mary, for clothes received by several persons belonging to her, which sum was stopped out of their wages. With Poynter's receipt endorsed. [S.P. Supplementary 138, No. 18.]
Feb. 24. Warrant from the same to the same for payment out of the said assessment of 21l. to Hercules Barnes for his services as a clerk to the auditors for stating the accounts of the Navy. With Barnes' receipt endorsed. [Ibid. No. 19.]
[Feb. ?] The Society meeting at Gresham College to the King. Petition showing that some persons well affected to learning and the good of their country, having been informed that his Majesty has given special encouragement to the petitioners to apply themselves seriously to the improvement of the knowledge of natural things and useful arts and inventions by experiments, have resolved to bestow on the petitioners 2,592l. due to them on debentures in Ireland (whereof the list is annexed) which may afford 3 or 400l. a year for ever for the petitioners' use, and that the petitioners are informed that divers of the Irish '49 officers are to be recompensed and are willing to dedicate some portion of their arrears to the petitioners' use, and therefore begging an order to the Solicitor General to insert a clause in the Act for the settlement of Ireland that forfeited houses in towns in Ireland amounting to the said sum of 2,592l. at the rate of 8 years purchase be allotted to the petitioners in satisfaction of the said debentures and granted to them or their trustees without any defalcation and that his Majesty will write to the trustees for the Irish '49 officers desiring them to move all the said officers to allot, each of them, out of their arrears such portion as they shall think fit to the petitioners' use. (See warrant of 11 Feb., 1662, in Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1660–62, p. 506, in which part of this petition is recited.) [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 440. No. 66.]
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