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Rh that his labour, care and pains are very great for the well ordering of our service in that Court, and the improvement of our revenues, certain and casual, whereof that court ought to have special care, and whose work it is to make particular inspection into the same, so that we may not be defrauded of our just rights, but our revenues by all just and honourable ways increased; and considering that it is for our honour and service, that those our servants may have competent means to support them, and to preserve their persons from contempt and disestimation in the opinion of the people; We have therefore resolved in our royal judgment, that the said Sir R. Kennedy's entertainment be raised to £300 per annum, to equal him with others of our puisne Judges there, and that he be duly paid the same from the time that the said establishment took beginning, and so for the future, as others are who are inserted on the establishment at £300 per annum."

3d,, late Justice of the King's Bench,—Hilton deceased, buried 19 August, 1651, at St. Werburgh's—Privy Seal, Whitehall, 29 Dec. 1660—patent, 19 Jan. 1661.—Pleasure.—12 Charles II. 2$a$ pars d. R. 2.

3d, ,—Dongan deceased,—patent, 26 Oct 1663.—Pleasure.—15 Charles II. 18. d. R. 5.—By letters from Whitehall, dated 28 May, 1664, (16.) the King writes: "We are informed that in the Establishment of the Civil List formerly