Letter, 1664 April 25 [to King Charles II's commissioners] / Charles ye 2d by ye grace of God, Kinge of England ... 1665 [i.e. 1664]

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Letter, 1664 April 25 [to King Charles II's commissioners] / Charles ye 2d by ye grace of God, Kinge of England ... 1665 [i.e. 1664]

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Transcript, handwritten. Charles appoints Richard Nichols, Robert Carre, George Cartwright, and Samuel Maverick as his commissioners to New England, giving Nichols the "casting and decisive vote" in matters upon which their opinions are evenly divided.

[2] p. ; 30 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Nichols, Richard, 1624-1672.

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Carr, Robert, Sir, -1667

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Cartwright, George Benjamin, 1905-1995

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Maverick, Samuel, 1602?-1670?

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Hutchinson, Edward, 1613-1675

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England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)

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King Charles II of England (1630-1685) did not have any official heirs. He did, though, have many children by a number of mistresses. Historians believe the number of children is somewhere between 10 and fifteen. The use of 'armes' or titles of nobility and the privileges that came with it was one way the King acknowledged that these were his children. The most children attributed to a relationship is that between King Charles and Barbara née Villiers (1641–1709), the Duchess of Cleveland, five,...