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<OPENER><SIGNED>_IAMES, By the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all and &s;inguler Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops. Archdeacons, Deanes, and their Offi|cials, Par&s;ons, Vicars, Curats, and to all &s;pirituall per&s;ons: And al&s;o to all Ju&s;tices of y^e Peace, Maiors, Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Con&s;tables, Churchwardens, and Headboroughs: And to all Offi|cers of Cities, Boroughs and Townes corporate: And to all other our Officers. Mini&s;ters, and Subiects what&s;oeuer they be, as well within Liberties, as without, to whome the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come, greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>WHEREAS</HI> wee are very crediblye giuen to vnder&s;tand by the humble &s;upplication and peti|tion of our faithful and loyng Subiects the Maior &amp; Burge&s;&s;es of the Burrough or Towne of <HI>Yarmouth</HI> in the I&s;le of <HI>Wright</HI> in our Countie of <HI>Southampton,</HI> That our &s;aid Town is an ancient Burrough, and was &s;ometimes &s;o peopled and inhabited, as that it had in it three Churches, which Towne in the beginning of the Raigne of our noble Progenitor King <HI>Richard</HI> the &s;econd, was wholly burnt and made de&s;olate by the French, and two of the &s;ayd Churches and the body of the 3. Church vtterly burnt, ra&s;ed &amp; defaced, &s;o as there remained onlie the ruinated Chancell of one of the &s;aid Churches, which the late Inhabitants of the &s;aid Towne haue re|paired and maintained for the exerci&s;e of diuine &s;eruice, and admini&s;tration of the Sacraments. Now fora&s;much as the op|portunitie of the place (by rea&s;on of the conueniencie of harbour and our Ca&s;tle there, together with our incoporating the &s;ame, and graunting liberties therevnto) hath induced many to re&s;ort vnto, build, and dwell in the &s;aid Towne, whereby the &s;aid Chauncell is not of &s;ufficient greatnes and capacity to containe the pre&s;ent Inhabitants who re&s;ort thither to diuine &s;er|uice, and the e&s;tate of the &s;aid Towne and the Inhabitants thereof is not &s;uch, as that they are able to build a Church fit and decent for tho&s;e who do already re&s;ide there, much le&s;&s;e for tho&s;e who in future times are hoped to re&s;ort thither.</P>
<P><HI>KNOWE</HI> yee therfore, that we tendering the good of the &s;aid Towne and Inhabitants thereof, and fauouring their ho|ne&s;t and religious &s;aue concerning the enlarging and reedifying of their Church (holding it one of our chiefe&s;t cares, and a &s;peciall part of our dutie to giue way and furtherance to &s;o good and charitable a worke, whereby not only a competent and conuenient place for preaching the word, and other diuine exerci&s;es may be prepared, but al&s;o that Trade and Traffique for the benefite of the &s;aid Inhabitants and other our louing Subiects, may hereafter bee there increa&s;ed.) Of our e&s;peciall Grace and Princely compa&s;&s;ion haue giuen and graunted, and by the&s;e our letters Patents doe giue and grant vnto our &s;aid louing Subiects the Mayor and Burge&s;&s;es of our &s;aid Towne of <HI>Yarmouth</HI> and their Succe&s;&s;ors, and to their Deputie the bearer hereof, full power, licence, and authoritie to aske, gather receaue, and take the charitable deuotion and liberall con|tribution what&s;oeuer of all our louing Subiects a&s;well &s;pirituall as temporall within our Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmini&s;ter,</HI> &amp; Suburbes thereof, and in our Counties of <HI>Southampton, Dor&s;et, Wilte&s;hire, Somer&s;et,</HI> &amp; <HI>Devon,</HI> with our Cities of <HI>Winche&s;ter, Salisburie, Bri&s;toll, Bathe,</HI> and <HI>Exeter,</HI> together al&s;o with the Towne of <HI>Poole,</HI> the I&s;le of <HI>Wight,</HI> and Towne of <HI>Southampton:</HI> And in all other Cities, Townes corporate, priviledge places, Pari&s;hes, Villages, and in all other places &amp; liberties What|&s;ouer within our &s;ayt Cities and Counties, and euery of them, and not el&s;ehwere, for and towards the new building and re|cdifying of the &s;aid Church of <HI>Yarmouth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>WHEREFORE</HI> wee will and commaund you and euery of you, that at &s;uch tune and times as &s;aid Mayor and Burge&s;&s;es or their Deputie the bearer hereof, &s;hall come and repaire to any your Churches or other places, to a&s;ke, and receaue the gratitutes and charitable beneuolence of well di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons, quietly to permit and &s;uffer them &s;o to dee, without any manner your i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">s &amp; contradictions. And you the &s;ayd Par&s;ons, Vicars and Curats, for the better &s;tirring vp of a charitable beneuolence, deliberatly to publi&s;h and declare the Tenour of the&s;e our letters Patents vnto our &s;ayd Subiects,, Exhorting and charitably moouing and per&s;wading them to extend their liberall contributions in &s;o good and charitable a deede. Any Statute, Law, Ordinance, or Proui&s;ion heretofore made, to the contrary in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P><HI>IN</HI> witne&s;&s;e whereof we haue cau&s;ed the&s;e our Letters to be made Patents for the &s;pace of Our whole yeare next after the date hereof of endure</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Witne&s;&s;e our &s;elfe at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE>the Fourth day of September in the Nynth yeare of our Raigne of England, Fraunce and Ireland; and of Scotland the Fiue and Fortieth.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Steward.</SIGNED><LB>
God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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