In 1662 dowsing was declared to be " superstitious, or rather satanic " by a Jesuit, Gaspar Schott, though he later noted that he wasn't sure that the devil was always responsible for the movement of the rod.

Street entertainment at Covent Garden was noted in Samuel Pepys's diary in May 1662, when he recorded the first mention of a Punch and Judy show in Britain.

The book of Churchwarden Payments from Frome church noted in 1621, 1633 and 1662 payments in relation to bells made in Warminster.

The immediate cause of the dispute was his affair with a married woman .” Michael S. Robinson noted that “ on 17 / 27 July 1662, he and his wife agreed to part.

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson ( 1664 – 1747 ) and published in 1712.

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson ( 1664 – 1747 ) and published in 1712.

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was published in 1712.

In 1662 he was called to the Irish House of Lords under a writ of acceleration as Earl of Ossory.

The first Irish creation came in 1662 when Lord Richard Butler, younger son of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, was created Baron Butler of Cloughgrenan, Viscount Tullough and Earl of Arran.

The Baronetcy, of Newtown in the County of Mayo, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1662 for Major Arthur Gore, who represented County Mayo in the Irish House of Commons.

* An Answer to a Scandalous Letter ... A Full Discovery of the Treachery of the Irish Rebels ( 1662 ), printed with the letter itself in his State Letters ( 1742 )

In 1662, the eldest son of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde was called to the Irish House of Lords on a writ of acceleration and became known as Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory.

It was begun in 1722 by William " Speaker " Conolly ( 1662 – 1729 ), Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, who came under the influence of the New Junta for Architecture, whose adherents included Alessandro Galilei believed to have designed the main house and Edward Lovett Pearce believed to have designed the entrancehall and the long gallery in its original form, as well as the colonnades and wings.

* 1662 raised on the Irish Establishment

1616 ) was Clerk of the Irish House of Commons from 1662 to 1697.

* William O ' Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin ( 1662 – 1719 ), Irish peer

A battle was fought near Antrim between the English and Irish in the reign of Edward III ; and in 1642 a naval engagement took place on Lough Neagh, for Viscount Massereene and Ferrard ( who founded Antrim Castle in 1662 ) had a right to maintain a fighting fleet on the lough.

Richard became the 2nd Viscount Lumley ( in the Irish peerage ) on his grandfather's death in 1661 / 1662, his father having died in 1658.

The ejection of Irish nonconformists was carried out by episcopal activity, some time before the passing of the English Act of Uniformity of 1662.

The Act of Settlement 1662 was passed by the Irish Parliament in Dublin.

His son Christopher ( 1628-1687 ), made a baronet in 1662, was the father of Sir Christopher Wandesford ( died 1707 ), who was created an Irish peer as Viscount Castlecomer in 1707, Castlecomer in Kilkenny having been acquired by his grandfather when in Ireland.

In 1662 she went to Dublin to pursue her husband's claim to certain Irish estates ; there she completed a translation of Pierre Corneille's Pompée, produced with great success in 1663 in the Smock Alley Theatre, and printed in the same year both in Dublin and London.

Only a " favoured minority " of Irish Catholic Royalists were returned the land confiscated from them by the Parliamentarians under the Act of Settlement 1662 and the public practice of Catholicism remained illegal.

Blaise Pascal (; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

* June 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher ( d. 1662 )

The law was named after chemist and physicist Robert Boyle, who published the original law in 1662.

* Blaise Pascal ( 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher

* June 19-Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist ( died 1662 )

** Robert Baillie, Scottish divine and historical writer ( d. 1662 )

Much of Hooke's scientific work was conducted in his capacity as curator of experiments of the Royal Society, a post he held from 1662, or as part of the household of Robert Boyle.

There he met the natural philosopher Robert Boyle, and gained employment as his assistant from about 1655 to 1662, constructing, operating, and demonstrating Boyle's " machina Boyleana " or air pump.

* 1660 – Robert Boyle experimentally discovers Boyle's Law, relating the pressure and volume of a gas ( published 1662 )

In the year 1662, William Vaughan, Zachariah Rhodes, and Robert Wescott, purchased of the Indians a large tract of land called West Quanaug, bordering on Providence.

Robert Baillie ( 30 April 1602 – 1662 ) was a Scottish divine and historical writer.

A complete memoir and a full notice of all his writings will be found in David Laing's edition of the Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie ( 1637 – 1662 ), Bannatyne Club, 3 vols.

His life of Hooker was published in 1662, that of George Herbert in 1670 and that of Bishop Robert Sanderson in 1678.

Charles conceived the idea that hydrogen would be a suitable lifting agent for balloons having studied the work of Robert Boyle's Boyle's Law which was published 100 years earlier in 1662, and of his contemporaries Henry Cavendish, Joseph Black and Tiberius Cavallo.

Louis, Prince of Condé, by Robert Nanteuil, 1662.

** Robert Baillie, Protestant historian ( died 1662 )

Prior to the building of the main organ, the cathedral had a chair organ, which was built by Robert Taunton in 1662.

* Robert Boyle publishes New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects ( the second edition in 1662 will contain Boyle's Law ).

At the second meeting, Sir Robert Moray announced that the King approved of the gatherings, and a Royal Charter was signed on 15 July 1662 which created the " Royal Society of London ", with Lord Brouncker serving as the first President.

* William Pierrepont, 4th Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull ( c. 1662 – 1690 ), second son of Robert Pierrepont, died without issue

* 1662 – Robert Boyle: Boyle's law of ideal gas

A collection of drolls was published by Francis Kirkman, some attributed to " the incomparable Robert Cox ", as The Wits ( 1662, and enlarged 1672 – 73 ).

Robert Leighton ( 1611 – 25 June 1684 ) was a Scottish prelate and scholar, best known as a church minister, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1653 to 1662.

Sir Richard married in or before 1659, Alice, daughter and sole heir of Thomas Fox, M. D., of Warlies, in Waltham Holy Cross, Essex there 26 Nov. 1662, and of Shipton, Oxon, by Anne, daughter of Robert Honywood, of Pett, in Charing, Kent.

Fernando Parkhurst translated the original into English in 1660, as Ignoramus, or the Academical Lawyer ; Robert Codrington's translation followed in 1662.

The other indicates that in 1662 it was owned by Robert Lancaster.

These rents were collected by his resident land agent, Robert " King " Carter ( 1662 – 1732 ).

Robert " King " Carter ( 1662 / 63 – 4 August 1732 ), of Lancaster County, was an American businessman and colonist in Virginia and became one of the wealthiest men in the colonies.