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Rh And we do order that the said Nicholas Whyte shall surrender the office which he has of the Senescalship of Wexford, to be bestowed upon some sufficient person meet for martial service and for civil government, so as nevertheless the said Whyte may continue therein before he surrender the same, the space of eight months, to the intent he may more effectually prose- cute by law the execution of justice against such as did kill or murder his son-in-law, Robert Browne, whose death we doubt not, but it shall by your means, for example's sake, be duly punished. Given under our Signet, at our Manor of Haveringe, 18 July 1572, in the 14th year of our reign. "To the Lord Deputy "

, Keeper of the Rolls,—Whyte sequestrated,—patent, 28 April, 1578,—pleasure.—Whereas Nicholas Whyte, Master of the Rolls, is for abusing and non using of his said office sequestrated to deal therein until our gracious pleasure be known to the contrary, and for that there is none in the mean time to sit in our High Court of Chancery to hear, decide, order, and determine causes betwixt party and party, and otherwise to continue that Court as hath been accustomed, and also to have the keeping and custody of the Rolls, records, phillaces, books, and other writings of the said Court, whereby those that hath need of the sight of them may have recourse for copies, and such like furtherance of their causes as to justice appertaineth. We have thought good, by