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99 kingdom of Ireland, may be dignified with the like state and degree of Serjeants at Law and of the coif as our Judges and Serjeants at Law here in our realm of England are, we do hereby authorize and require you to cause several writs to be framed and made in our Court of Chancery under our Great Seal, to be directed to such of our several Judges and Serjeants there respectively as are not already of the coif, thereby commanding and enjoining every of them, at the several days therein respectively to be appointed, to ordain and prepare themselves to take upon them the state and degree of Serjeants at Law, and that they do, after their said several writs returned, together with the coif, take upon them the very same form and fashion of robes, habits, and other ornaments as are used here by our Judges in England, according to their several degrees and places in court.—Westminster, 7 Oct. 1639.—15 Charles I. 2$a$ pars fac. R, 56.

,—under the usurpation,—patent, 1655.—Pleasure.

,—Pepys deceased,—patent, 19 Jan. 1658.—Pleasure.—"By the Lord Lieutenant and Council: Whereas upon consideration had of the decease of the late Lord Chief Justice Pepys, the sole Judge of die Upper Bench, and of the approaching term, and that if no supply be made for some Judge to sit in the court by the beginning of the term, great inconvenience will inevitably ensue, both to the commonwealth and