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importance to all coast towns. All local officers and 
ministers throughout England, were therefore asked to see 
the collection duly made and the money realised given to 
the High Sheriffs of the counties to be handed to the Earl 
of Pembroke, who was to act as Treasurer for the company. 
In spite of the personal influence of the king, however, his 
appeal was fruitful of result only in a few of the counties 
of the south and west, and particularly in Kent.1 The 
amount of the collection was returned as £818 6s. 44d., and, 
since the expenses of collection were £543 10s. 4d., the net 
sum given to the company was £274 16s. 0jd. The Earl 
of Pembroke gave the following statement of the amounts 
contributed by the churches in some of the counties.” 
County of Southampton - - - £35 7 2 
5 » Surrey - - - - 2815 6 
pe » Berks - - - - 14 9 8 
5 » Bucks - - - 21 7:10 
59 », Middlesex - - - - 45 2 24 
ss », Oxon - - - - 2419 8} 
PA » Hertford - - - - 614 1 
‘5 », Hereford - - - - 3 3 6 
5 », Devon - - - - 915 0 
as 5, Salop - - - - 917 0 
%s » Wilts - - - - 12 5 8 
3 >> Somerset - - - - 5 0 0 
3 » Kent - - - - 75 19 8 
5 » Exon - - - - 7 8 4 
Although Charles and the promoters of the Royal Fishery 
must have felt disappointed at the want of enthusiasm with 
which their public appeal to the sympathies of the nation 
had been met, they were not to be thus easily dissuaded 
from their enterprise, and continued to make their prepara- 
tory arrangements. By September, 1662, these arrange- 
ments were so far advanced that it was resolved to make 
1Cal. S.P. Dom. Car. II., vol. 41, No. 19 2 Ibid. vol. 73, No. 56. 
