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Rh till some place did fall, and made choice of Gerald Lowther, an ancient Counsellor, and by the advice of the Chancellor of England, and some of the Judges thought meet for it: wherefore by the said Privy Seal the King directed that on his coming over he should be admitted as one of the Justices, and a patent pass to him, with all such fees as any Justice of the Common Pleas had or ought to have, the same to continue until some place of a Judge now full should fall, and then this extraordinary charge to cease; he to have also the allowance of £100 English a-year, over and above the usual fees for his better enablement in his Majesty's service.—8 James I. 2$a$ pars d. R. 5.

3d, ,—Palmer deceased,—Privy Seal, Westminster, 30 Jan.—patent, 10 Feb. 1621,—pleasure.—18 James I. 3$a$ pars d. R. 8.—Continued,—patent, 16 April 1625.—Pleasure.—1 Charles I. 1$a$ pars f. R. 54.

,—Lowther deceased, 14 Oct. 1624, and buried in Christ Church,—Privy Seal, Oakeing, 21 July, 1625,—patent, 19 Jan. 1626.—Pleasure.—1 Charles I. 2$a$ pars f. R. 54.

3d, ,—Phillpott deceased,—Privy Seal, Lyndhurst, 17 August,—patent, 6 Nov. 1637—He had a license to hold with this place the office of Chief Justice of Connaught, by letters from Westminster, 10 Jan. 1638.—13 Charles I. (Rot. Cl. 12, 13 f. R. 70,) and again inrolled, dorso R. 6.