CVII. 21 March 1553

Thomas Chcyiic, Knight of the very noble Order of the Garter, King's Councillor, and Treasurer of his household, and also Constable of the said Lord King's Castle of Dover, Warden, Chancellor, and Admiral of his Cinque Ports and their Limbs, to the Mayor and Jurats of the Town and Port of Dover — Greeting. We command you, and by the authority of our aforesaid office firmly enjoining, order, that having heard the suit of Richard Browning, tailor, of the aforesaid town and port, complainant, and David Pirry, W^arden of the Lord King's gaol without the walls of the city of Canterbury, defendant, in a plea for debt pending in the court of the said Lord King before you, the aforesaid Mayor and Jurats of the Town and Port of Dover, having summoned before you the aforesaid parties, and having heard their evidence there on that behalf, you afford to the aforesaid David Pirry full justice as in such a case shall be approved according to law and custom of the court of the said Lord King in the town and port aforesaid, lest repeated complaint reach us on that behalf, our mandate directed to you yourselves to the contrary notwithstanding, and this under pain and penalty ye are in no wise to omit. 

Given at the Castle aforesaid, under the seal of our office there, on the twenty-first day of March in the seventh year of the reign of the Lord King Edward VI., by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and on earth Supreme Head of the English and Irish Church.