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154, 14 Sept 1628.—Pleasure.—4 Charles I. 2$a$ pars d. R. 46.

, Sergeant-at-Law,—Gerard Lowther made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.—patent, 5 August, 1634.—Pleasure.—10 Charles I. 1$a$ pars d. R. 7.

2d, ,—Lancelot Lowther deceased, 10 Jan. 1637, and hurried 13, at Skryne, co. Meath,—patent, 30 Jan. 1637.—Pleasure.—Mr. Hilton was continued a Baron after he was appointed a Justice of the Common Pleas, and held both offices together by a clause in his patent of Justice.—12 Charles I. 6$a$ pars f. R. 2.

2d, ,—patent, 21 April, 1659.—Pleasure.—Interregnum, 8$a$ p. d. R. 36.

2d,, of Mount Kennedy, co. Wicklow, Bart.—"Pleasure.—12 Charles II. 1$a$ pars d. R. 36.—By letters from Whitehall, dated 3 Oct. 1662, the King writes: "We are informed, that in our Establishshment of the Civil List lately transmitted thither, the yearly entertainment of several of the puisne Judges of our Courts of Justice there, are raised to £300 per annum, and yet that the enter-tainment of Sir R. Kennedy,. Bart., Second Baron of our Court of Exchequer, is by the said establishment but £200 per annum; We therefore, taking the same into our royal consideration, and having received good testimony of the said Sir R. Kennedy's merits, and dutiful and loyal affection to us, and considering