[171] Hist. MSS. Report, v. 46.
[172] Firth, Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, i. 27.
[173] He was buried in Chatham Church on August 21.
[174] Pipe Office Dec. Accts. 2286.
'Phineas Pett, Esq., another of the said Commissioners and one of the principal officers of the Navy, for his salary at 200l. per annum, 8d. per diem for one clerk and 6l. per annum for paper, pens etc., due to him for the same time ended as the former [i.e. the year ended September 29, 1647]
217l. 3s. 4d.
'Thomas Smith, Esq., now one of the Commissioners of the Navy in the room and place of (blank) for the entertainment of himself at 200l. per annum and two clerks at 16d. per diem and 6l. per annum for paper money due to him for 34 days begun the 28th of August 1647 and ended the 30th of September following
22l. 9s. 4d.'
[175] Smith, who had been Northumberland's secretary, had been appointed Secretary of the Admiralty by Ordinance of the same date as the one by which Pett had been re-appointed a Commissioner of the Navy in 1642.