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Rh services we have graced him with the dignity of a Sergeant, it is conceived that his office of our Attorney, which he holds but at our pleasure, is thereby made void; for avoiding all scruple therein, we are pleased that you shall make unto him new Letters Patent of that office of our Attorney-General for that kingdom, in as ample a manner as he held it before, to hold the same during our pleasure. And for that his attendance here for so long time, as well now in this journey as about three years since, hath been no small hindrance to his profit, as well in his office as in his practice, our meaning being not that the time which is spent in our service shall hurt those which perform it in their private estates, we are pleased, for recompense thereof, to grant unto our said Attorney, and to his heirs and assigns, in fee farm of our manors, lands, rectories, tithes, chaunteries and other lands and hereditaments whatsoever, (except such as you have received heretofore from us any restraint from passing them,) so much and so many as shall amount to the clear yearly value of 1640 over and above all reprizes. Wherefore we will and require, &c., our meaning is not by this our gift to prejudice such allowances as by concordatuin he hath or is to have for his riding charges, but that the same remain to him as if he had received no such grant from us."—7 James I. 1$a$ pars d. R. 5.

Sir, Knt.,—Davys deceased,—