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<HEAD>By the Kings Maie&s;ties Commi&s;si|oners for granting Court Leets.</HEAD>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<P><HI>_THE KINGS mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;ty</HI> affecting nothing more then the good gouernment and ea&s;e of his louing &s;ubiects: AND vnder&s;tanding that Court Leets were ordayned for the well ordering and good gouernment of the people, and &s;afety of his per&s;on, and that many of his &s;ubiects are compelled to trauell far from their habitations vnto Leets kept in remote places di&s;tant far from them; and that in diuers parts of his Maie&s;ties Realme of England and dominions of Wales, Court Leets are houlden by v&s;urpation, without lawfull warrant to hould the &s;ame: hath beene graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to grant his Commi&s;&s;ion vnder the great S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ale of En|gland, directed to &s;ome of his learned Councell, and others who&s;e names are &s;ub&s;cribed, for granting Court Leets in fee &s;imple, vnto all Lords of Mannors, or any other per&s;on or per&s;ons, and all bodyes politique or corporate within England and Wales: AND likewi&s;e to confirme, and new grant, Court Leets houlden or pretended to be holden by any of his Maie&s;ties Subiects, either by Pattent or pre&s;cription, ouer all, and euery the Tenants, Re&s;tants, and Inhabitants within any Mannors, Townes Villages, Hamlettes, or Her<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ditaments within England, and Wales, or either of them, and di|ners benefits thereunto belonging as by the Commi&s;&s;ion may appeare.</P>
<P><HI>The Office is kept at the &s;igne of the Holy Lamb in Flee-&s;treet betwixt Saint Dun&s;tans Church and Fetter-lane end in London.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Commi&s;sioners for this grant.</HEAD>
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<ITEM><HI>Sir <HI>Henry Yeluerton,</HI> Knight.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir <HI>Edward Mo&s;eley,</HI> Knight.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir <HI>Robert Beuill,</HI> Knight.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Woodward, <HI>E&s;quire.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Roger Wood, <HI>Gentleman</HI></HI></ITEM>
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<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King</CLOSER>
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