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<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>_ELIZABETH</HI> by the grace of God, Queene of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith. &amp;c. To all to whom the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Know ye that a&s;well in con&s;ideration of the good, faithfull and acceptable &s;eruice to be heretofore done, by our tru&s;tie and welbeloued &s;eruant Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> Knight, as for and in con&s;ideration of the &s;umme of fourty Pounds of currant money of this our Realme, to be yeerely an&s;wered and paid to vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors by the &s;aid &s;ir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> his Executors or a&s;&s;ignes into the receipt of our Exchequer at the fea&s;t of the Natiuitie of our Lord God, or within two moneths next after at one entier paiment during all the yeres mentioned in the&s;e pre&s;ents for and during the continuance of this our grant. For the tru<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> paiment whereof accordingly the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> hath already put in &s;ufficient bond &amp; a&s;&s;urance to vs, as al&s;o for and in con&s;ideration that the &s;aide Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> hath likewi&s;e put in &s;ufficient bond and a&s;&s;urance to vs for the yerely paiment of the &s;umme of fiue hundreth Pounds of currant money of this our Realm<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> to be likewi&s;e yerely an&s;wered and paid to vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors at the &s;aide place, and within the &s;aid time, for and during the continuance of this our grant, for and towards the &s;ati&s;faction and paiment of a certaine debt due to vs by <HI>Richard Yung</HI> decea&s;ed, and for diuers and &s;undry other con&s;iderations vs moouing:</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE>WE of our e&s;pecial grace, certaine knowledge and meere motion haue giuen and granted, and by the&s;e pre&s;ents for vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors do giue and grant to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> and his a&s;&s;ignes, and the a&s;&s;ignes of his &s;aid a&s;&s;ignee and his and their a&s;&s;ignes, ful power and licence, and authoritie that he by him&s;elfe or by his a&s;&s;ignes or the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignes of his a&s;&s;ignes or his or their a&s;&s;ignes, or the Seruants, factors or deputies of him or his a&s;&s;ignes or the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignes of his &s;aid a&s;&s;ignes, or his or their a&s;&s;ignes, or of any of them a&s;well Engli&s;hmen and denizens as &s;trangers borne vnder the obedience of any forreine Prince, being with vs in league and amitie, &s;hall and may at all times for and during the terme of eight whole yeres, from and immediatly en&s;uing the date of the&s;e our letters Patents prouide and buy in any part beyond the Seas being with vs in league and amitie, all and euery &s;uch &s;orts of Starch, as hee or they or any of them &s;hall thinke good, and the &s;ame Starch from time to time to bring or &s;end or cau&s;e to be brought or &s;ent and tran&s;ported into this our Realme or any our Dominions and there to vtter, and &s;ell, di&s;tribute and di&s;po&s;e the &s;ame in gro&s;&s;e or by retaile, to his or their mo&s;t commoditie, without incurring of any maner of penaltie, forfeiture, or danger in that be|halfe: any Law, act, &s;tatute, ordinance, or re&s;traint to the contrary in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>And further we will and graunt by the&s;e pre&s;ents for vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, that the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> and his a&s;&s;ignes and the a&s;&s;ignee and a&s;&s;ignes of his a&s;&s;ignee and his and their a&s;&s;ignes, and the &s;er|uants, factors, and deputies of him and his a&s;&s;ignes only and none other &s;hall during the &s;aid terme, haue exerci&s;e and enioy the premi&s;&s;es to him by the&s;e pre&s;ents before giuen and granted, and al&s;o the full and whole trade and traffique of Merchandizing and &s;elling of Starch within this our Re<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lme and dominions as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE>ANd therefore we do &s;traightly charge and command all and euery per&s;on and per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, of what e&s;tate, degree, or condition &s;oeuer they be, that none of them &s;hall during the &s;aide terme make or cau&s;e to be made any maner of Starch within this our Realme or dominions afore&s;aid. And likewi&s;e that none of them other then the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> or his a&s;&s;ignes or the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignes of his a&s;&s;ignes or his or their a&s;&s;ignes, or his or their &s;eruants, factors, or deputies as is afore&s;aid &s;hall during the &s;aid terme bring or &s;end, or cau&s;e to be brought or &s;ent, tran&s;ported or layde on land, nor by any maner of meanes or colour, mer|chandize, buy, &s;ell, vtter, &s;hift, exchange, offer to &s;ell <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> put to &s;ale, or keepe to the intent to &s;ell any maner of Starch into or within this our Realme or any our Dominions contrary to the effect and true meaning of this our grant, or of any Law, &s;tatute, ordinance, re&s;traint p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5 letters">mation or proui&s;ion in that ca&s;e made or prouided: Vpon paine that euery per&s;on offending in that behalfe, &s;hal not onely incurre our high di&s;plea&s;ure and &s;uffer &s;uch fine, puni&s;hment and impri&s;onment, as is due for offences and offenders in ca&s;es of contempt again&s;t our Crowne, dignitie and prerogatiue Royall, but al&s;o &s;hall likewi&s;e loo&s;e and forfeit all the Starch which &s;halbe made, brought in, &s;old, merchandized, vttered &s;hifted, exchanged, offered, or put to &s;ale, or kept to the intent to be &s;old contrary to the tenour or intent of this our pre&s;ent graunt. The one halfe of which forfeiture, to be to vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, and the other halfe we giue and grant by the&s;e pre&s;ents, for vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> and his a&s;&s;ignes.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE>ANd for the better execution of this our graunt, we do al&s;o for vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors giue and graunt by the&s;e pre&s;ents to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> full power, free libertie, and authoritie that he the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> and his a&s;&s;ignes, and the a&s;&s;ignee and a&s;&s;ignes of his a&s;&s;ignes, and his and their a&s;&s;ignes, and his and their and euery of their &s;eruants, factors and deputies and euery of them, &s;hall and may at all times, and from time to time during the &s;aid terme, enter into any Ship, bottome, ve&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ll, boat, &s;hop warehou&s;e, or other place or places what&s;oeuer, which they or any of them &s;hall thinke good within this our Realme, or any other our dominions by water or land, a&s;well within liberties as without, and there by all lawfull and conuenient wayes and meanes try out and &s;earch for all &s;uch Starch as &s;hall be made, brought tran&s;ported l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">yde on land, bought, &s;old, merchandized &s;hifted, exchanged, vttered, offered or put to &s;ale, or kept to the intent to be put to &s;ale contrary to the meaning or intent of the&s;e our letters Patents, and to arre&s;t, &s;eize, take, carry away and deteine the &s;ame to the v&s;es in the&s;e our letters Patents before m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ntioned and expre&s;&s;ed, to the intent that the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> and his a&s;&s;ignes &s;hal and may quietly haue and enioy the moitie of all forfeitures as is afore&s;aid during the terme afore&s;aid according to the effect of this our graunt.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> forfeitures <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> paid to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Pa|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">.</NOTE>VVE do further will and graunt that the&s;e our letters Patents or the Inrolement, Duplicate, or exemplification of the &s;ame, without any further or other w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rrant, &s;hall from time to time during the &s;aide terme of yeres, be a &s;ufficient warrant and authoritie to our Trea&s;orer of England for the time being, and to the Barons of our Exchequer, and to all other our Officers and mini&s;ters what&s;oeuer to whom it &s;hall or may appertaine, to allow, deliuer and pay the one moitie of all the &s;aid forfeitures to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> or his a&s;&s;ignes, or the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignes of his a&s;&s;ignes or his or their a&s;&s;ignes to his and their owne proper v&s;e and behoofe. Which &s;aid allowance and paiment thereof our will and plea&s;ure is, to be from time to time duely made and performed accordingly during the terme afore&s;aid, without any denial or delay of any our Of|ficers and mini&s;ters what&s;oeuer.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Cu&s;tome <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> be payd for <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Starch <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> ANd further we will and command and by the&s;e pre&s;ents for vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, doe &s;traightly charge and prohibite all &amp; &s;inguler our Cu&s;tomers, Collectors, Comptrollers, and farmers of our Cu&s;tomes and Sub&s;idies of and within all and euery Ports, Hauens and Creekes and all other places what&s;oeuer within this our Realme or any other our Dominions, and all other our Officers and Mini&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rs what&s;oeuer, which haue or &s;hal haue any dealing or intermedling couching our &s;aid Cu&s;tomes or Sub&s;idies, that they nor any of them by them&s;elues, their Clearks, Deputies, and &s;eruants receiue or take or in any wi&s;e cau&s;e or &s;uffer to be taken any Cu&s;tome or Sub&s;idie, or any thing or things what&s;oeu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r, during the &s;aid terme of yeeres in the name or liew of any Cu&s;tome or Sub&s;idie, nor compound or agree, or make any entrie into any Booke of or for any Cu&s;tome Sub&s;idie or other duetie which &s;hall hereafter during the &s;ayd terme happen or grow due to vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors for any Starch which &s;halbe brought into this our Realme or any other our Do|minions by any per&s;on or per&s;ons, other then the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> and his a&s;&s;ignees, and the a&s;&s;ignee and a&s;&s;ignees of his a&s;&s;ignees, and his and their a&s;&s;ignees, or his or their &s;eruants, factors or deputies, or in the name or names of him or them, or &s;ome of them and for his and their or &s;ome of their onely v&s;e and v&s;es.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> forth of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Exche|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">.</NOTE>ANd further we will and graunt by the&s;e pre&s;ents for vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors that the Trea&s;urer and Barons of our Exchequer for the time being by the force of this our graunt or the Inrolement thereof in the &s;ame Court at all and euery time and times during the &s;aid terme at and vpon the reque&s;t of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> or his a&s;&s;ignees, or the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignees of his a&s;&s;ignees, or his and their a&s;&s;ignees, or any other his or their atturney, factor or deputie &s;hall haue full power, or lawfull authoritie to make and direct vnder the &s;eale of the &s;ame Exchequer, &s;uch and &s;o many writ and writs, Clo&s;e or Patent vnto &s;uch Maiors, Bailiffes, Sheriffes, Farmers of Cu&s;tomes, Cu&s;tomers, Collectors, Comptrollers, Seachers, and other Officers of vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors in &s;uch Shires, Counties, Cities, Boroughes, Ports, Hauens, and Creekes, or other places what&s;oeuer within any our Dominions as the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> or his a&s;&s;ignees or the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignees of his a&s;&s;ignees, or his or their a&s;&s;ignees, atturney, &s;eruant or factor, &s;hall at any time require. Commanding and charging them or any of them thereby that they nor any of them during the &s;aid terme, receiue or take any Cu&s;tome or Sub&s;idie or any other thing in the name or liew of any Cu&s;tome or Sub&s;idie, or compound or agree or make any compo&s;ition or agreement, or any entrie into any booke of or for any Cu&s;tome Sub&s;idie or other duetie which &s;hall hereafter during the &s;ayd terme happen or growe due to vs our heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ors for any maner of Starch, which &s;hall bee brought into this Realme or any other our Dominions, otherwi&s;e then by vertue of and according to this our pre&s;ent lyeence and graunt, and al&s;o to doe and execute and cau&s;e to be done and executed all and euery thing and matter what&s;oeuer, which &s;hall and may be nece&s;&s;arie requi&s;ite or conuenient for the performing, executing and accompli&s;hment of this our pre|&s;ent graunt.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Cu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">omers to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and de<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">i|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> as &s;ir Iohn P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">gton.</NOTE> VVIlling and commanding all our &s;aid Cu&s;tomers, Collectors, Comptrollers, and Farmers of our &s;aid Cu&s;tomes and Sub&s;idies from time to time and at all times during the &s;ayd terme in all places within their Office and charge carefully and diligently by all wayes and meanes to trie out and &s;earch for all &s;uch Starch as by any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall be made or cau&s;ed to be made within this our &s;ayd Realme or other our Dominions. And al&s;o to trie out and &s;earch for all &s;uch Starch as by any per&s;on or per&s;ons, other then the &s;aid &s;ir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> and his a&s;&s;ignees or the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignees of his a&s;&s;ignees, or his or their a&s;|&s;ignees, &s;eruants, factors or deputies or &s;ome of them &s;hall within the &s;aid terme be brought and laid on land, merchandize, bought, &s;old, vttered &s;hifted, exchanged, offered, or put to &s;ale, or kept to be &s;old into or within this our Realme or any other our Dominions contrary to the tenor of the&s;e our letters Patents: and to arre&s;t, take, &s;eize, and to deliuer the &s;ame to the &s;aid &s;ir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> and his a&s;&s;ignees and the a&s;&s;ignee and a&s;&s;ignees of his &s;aid a&s;&s;ignees, and his and their a&s;&s;ignees, or to his &s;eruants, factors and deputies of them or &s;ome of them to the v&s;es aboue &s;pecified.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Puni<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ment for offenders.</NOTE> ANd further that they do carefully and dilgently endeuor them&s;elues that th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">intent and true meaning of the&s;e our letters Patents may be in all things kept and ob&s;erued. And if in th'execution thereof they &s;hall find any re&s;i&s;tance, that they certifie the &s;ame into our Court of the &s;ayd Exchequer, to the end the offendors therein may receiue condigne puni&s;hment for the &s;ame their offences, and to the end that the &s;ayde &s;ir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> and his a&s;&s;ignees and the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignees of his a&s;&s;ignees, and his and their a&s;&s;ignees, deputies, &s;eruants, and factors and euery of them &s;hall haue the whole benefit and profit of this our graunt, accor|cording to the true meaning of the&s;e our letters Patents.</P>
<P>Our expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure is, and we do require and &s;traightly charge and command our Chauncellor and Barons of our Court of Exchequer, and all other our Iudges, Iu&s;tices of peace, Maiors, officers, and Mini&s;ters what&s;oeuer, within this our Realme of England and other our Dominions, vpon complaint vnto them or any of them to be made by the &s;ayd &s;ir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> his a&s;&s;ignees or the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignees of his &s;ayd a&s;&s;ignees or his or their a&s;&s;ignees, factors, deputies and &s;eruants, or any of them, that any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer &s;hall offend in making, tran&s;porting, or vttering, putting to &s;ale, &s;hifting, exchanging, or offering to &s;ale, or keeping to th'intent to put to &s;ale any &s;ort of Starch contrary to the true meaning of the&s;e our letters Patents to enquire of, trie out, and examine by all due and lawfull meanes and wayes what&s;oeuer, all and euery &s;uch offences, and the offendors therein to cau&s;e to be &s;euerily puni&s;hed: as contemners of our Prerogatiue Royall, by &s;uch fine and empri&s;onment and otherwi&s;e, as &s;halbe due for &s;uch Offendors, &amp; as the qualitie of their offences &s;hall de&s;erue and require, and al&s;o from time to time during the &s;ayd terme to take &s;uch &s;traight orders for the re&s;training of all &s;uch offendors as afore&s;ayd, &amp; all other per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, from doing or attempting any thing whereby the &s;ayd &s;ir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> or his a&s;&s;ignees or the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignees of his a&s;&s;ignees or his or their a&s;&s;ignees, deputies, factors, or &s;eruants, &s;hall or may be any way preiudi|ced or hindered, quietly to haue &amp; enioy the benefit of this our graunt according to our gracious plea&s;ure and meaning therin expre&s;&s;ed, as &s;halbe lawfull and rea&s;onable, and as in their di&s;cretions they &s;hall thinke meete.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Officers <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> be aiding.</NOTE>ANd further we wil &amp; command by the&s;e pre&s;ents that all Maiors, Bailiffes, Sheriffes, Ju&s;tices of the peace, Con&s;tables Comptrolers, Searchers, &amp; all other our Officers, Mini&s;ter &amp; &s;ubiects what&s;oeuer do not onely permit and &s;uffer the &s;ayd &s;ir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> and his a&s;&s;ignees and the a&s;&s;ignee and a&s;&s;ignees of his a&s;&s;ignees and his and their a&s;&s;ignees and his and their &s;eruants, factors and deputies to haue &amp; enioy the full benefit and commoditie of this our graunt, but al&s;o that they be helping, ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to him and them in the excution hereof, when they &s;halbe thereunto required, at all times during the &s;ayd terme as they will an&s;were the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perill.</P>
<P>Sauing alwayes to vs our Heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors all and all maner Cu&s;tomes &s;ub&s;idies and duties which &s;hall or ought to be in any wi&s;e due or payable of or for any Starch brought or to be brought, or tran&s;ported in|to this our Realme or any other our Dominions by the &s;ayd &s;ir <HI>Iohn Pakington</HI> or his a&s;&s;ignees or the a&s;&s;ignee or a&s;&s;ignees, or his or their a&s;&s;ignees, &s;eruants, factors or deputies or in their or any of their names or name during the &s;ayd terme.</P>
<P>ALl which &s;ayd Cu&s;tomes, Sub&s;idies and dueties, our expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure is to be duely and fully an&s;wered and payd to vs our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors during the &s;ayd terme of yeeres. Any thing in the&s;e pre|&s;ents contained to the contrary in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tanding. In Witnes whereof we haue cau&s;ed the&s;e our letters to be made Patents.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Witnes our &s;elfe at We&s;tmin&s;ter <DATE>the Twenteth day of Maye in the Fortith yeere of our Raigne.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per breue de priuato Sigillo, &amp;c. Powle.</SIGNED>
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<P>Nos tenorem litterarum patentem predictarum ad requi&s;itionem delectorum nobis, Georgij Berisford, Thome Fuller, Io&s;ue Crewe, &amp; Guihelmi Nottingham, duximus exemplificand per pre&s;entes. In cuius rei te&s;timonium has litteras no&s;tras fieri fecimus patentes. Te&s;te meip&s;a, &amp;c.</P>
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