XCIII. 12 February 1512

Henry, by the grace of God, King of England and France, Lord of Ireland, to all his Bailiffs and Lieges to whom the present letters shall come — Greeting. Know that we, of our special grace and of our certain knowledge and of our mere motion, have pardoned, remitted, and released, and by the presents do pardon, remit, and release, to the Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty of our town of Dover, or by whatsoever other name the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty may be enrolled, all and all manner of treasons, greater as well as smaller, and all manner of other treasons whatsoever, all murders, homicides, felonies, robberies, burglaries, abjurations, rapes, and abductions of women had, done, or perpetrated by the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty, before the twenty-third day of April in the first year of our reign : also all manner of escapes and evasions, voluntary or involuntary, of whatsoever traitors, murderers, and homicides, of felons, burglars, and of all suspected of treason, murder, homicide, robbery, and felony ; also the escapes of attainted and convicted clerks and of all other prisoners whatsoever from the custody of the said Mayor, Bailiff^, and Commonalty, together with another or others, or of their deputies ; also accessories of murder, homi cide, of whatsoever felonies, robberies, and of other felonies whatsoever, made, had, or perpetrated by the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty before the said day, whether the said Mayor and Commonalty be, or not be, indicted, accused, brought to judgment, sentenced, outlawed, condemned, con victed, or attainted for the premises or any one of the pre mises ; also all and singular outlawries promulgated against the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty by reason of the premises or any one of them, before the said day : also all manner and singular judgments, penalties of death, and executions, to be had or executed, by reason or occasion of the premises or any one of them ; and we grant to them on that behalf our firm peace by the presents ; in such a manner, however, that he may abide sentence in our court if any may wish to plead against him on that behalf. 

We also pardon, remit, and release to the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all and all manner of insurrections, rebellions, misprisions, confederations, con cealments, and undue utterance of words against our royal Majesty, and all our progenitors formerly Kings of Eng land, and against our councillors or any of them, or the councillor or any councillor of our progenitors, howsoever and whensoever made, had, or perpetrated by the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, before the said twenty- third day of April ; also all and all manner of trespasses, riots, unlawful assemblies, unlawful conventicles, confedera cies, conspiracies, misprisions, forcible entries, contempts, negligences, ignorances, impeachments, forgeries, frauds, damages, and burdens, extortions, oppressions, perjuries, and all sums of money or of other things whatsoever, and their receipts for giving a verdict, and embraceries, cham perties, maintenances, omissions, offenses, and other misdeeds whatsoever, howsoever made, had, or perpetrated by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty before the said day. 

And likewise we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all manner of trespasses, contempts, forgeries, and frauds, for the rubbing, erasing, interlining, or embezzling, or withdrawing, of any rolls, records, recognizances, or other our memoranda, or of any of our progenitors whatsoever, in any way done or per petrated, in any our court, or in any court of any our progenitor, or from any court of the sort, by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, before the aforesaid twenty-third day of April. 

And also we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all manner of unjust impetrations, statements of claim, whether claims or no claims, prosecutions, usurpations, uses, abuses, misuses, and non uses of any liberties, franchises, privileges, and juris dictions, the return of our writs, precepts, and mandates, or of any our progenitors, and the executions of the same, and view of frank pledge and of any liberties or jurisdictions held by justices of the peace, or of justices for gaol deliveries, and coroners, and all other liberties, franchises, jurisdictions, and privileges whatsoever, without the royal warrant made and had by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty before the said twenty-third day of April ; also all manner of for feitures, fines, penalties, and all manner of sums of money taken or received by reason, occasion, or colour of the pre mises or any of them, by the said Mayor, Bailiff", or Com monalty, before the said day, belonging, due, and appertaining to us or to any our progenitor, by reason of the premises or any of them ; and the said forfeitures, fines, penalties, and sums of money we do give and grant to the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty by the presents to have for them selves of our gift without returning, paying, or making an account or anything else to us or our heirs on that behalf. 

We, furthermore, pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty, all and all manner of false, insufficient, or fraudulent returns of any our writs, precepts, and mandates, or of any our progenitor, and all manner of trespasses and off^enses for the non-return of the same, and embezzlements of the same, and all manner of payments, receipts and taking of sums of money, and all manner of deliveries and deliverances of any things whatsoever for the return or non-return of any writs, precepts or mandates, or for favour shown to any persons whatsoever in any way, or to any person, for doing and showing favour and easement to any person in their custody ; and all manner of off"enses, trespasses, and forfeitures, for impanneling any one or more of their sergeants or officers in panels and juries in our court, or in the court of any our progenitor, before us, or any our progenitor, or in any other our court, or in any court whatsoever of any our progenitor : and all and all manner and singular other offences, trespasses, contempts, and forfeitures whatsoever, howsoever done and perpetrated by the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty, before the said day, against sheriff's, sub-sheriffs, clerks of sheriffs, escheators, seneschals, sub-seneschals, mayors, constables, prepositi, and bailiffs, and the deputy or deputies of them or any one of them, or any sheriffs, sub-sheriffs, clerks of sheriffs, escheators, seneschals, sub-seneschals, mayors, con stables, prepositi, and bailiffs, and the deputy or deputies of them, or any one of them, in any way touching or concern ing any of them, against the form of all and singular the statutes made and published before the said day by the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty: and all forfeitures, condem nations, and sums of money pertaining, due, or belonging to us by reason or occasion of the premises, or any of them : and the said forfeitures, condemnations, and sums of money we give and grant to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty by the presents, to have for themselves of our gift without giving, paying, or making account or anything else on that behalf. 

Furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff^, and Commonalty, all and all manner of tres passes, and off"enses, misprisions, frauds, negligences, ignorances, and contempts howsoever done and perpetrated against the form of all and singular the statutes, provisions, or ordi- nances, against the justices in pleas held before us, or any of our progenitors, justices of our bench, or of any of our progenitors, justices of assizes, justices for gaol deliveries, justices or wardens for preserving our peace, or the justices or wardens for preserving the peace of any our progenitors, or the treasurers and barons of our exchequer, or of any our progenitors, or other our assigned commissaries, or of any of our progenitors, or anything touching or concerning any one of them, by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty before the said day : and all forfeitures, condemnations, and sums of money pertaining, due, or belonging to us by reason of the premises, or any one of them : and we give and grant by the presents to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty the said forfeitures, condemnations, and sums of money to have for themselves of our gift without giving, paying, or making to us an account or anything else. 

And, furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all manner of offenses, trespasses, misprisions, contempts, or negligences, concealments, frauds, forgeries, impeachments, and other misdeeds whatsoever, howsoever done or perpetrated by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty before the said twenty-third day of April, against the form of all and singular the statutes concerning labourers, serving men, and vagabonds, and marks and liveries of cloths and car pets, and of unlawful detentions whatsoever : also concerning the appearance and use of clothing and apparel, and of all and singular other statutes or any of them before the said twenty- third day published and provided ; and all forfeitures, con demnations, and sums of money howsoever pertaining, due, or belonging to us by reason or occasion of the premises or any of them ; and we give and grant by the presents to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty the said forfeitures, condemnations, and sums of money to have for themselves of our gift without giving, paying, or making to us an account or anything else on that behalf. 

And, furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all manner of demands, articles in eyre destructions and trespasses of vert and venison, or killing of stags and hinds and other wild beasts in our forests, parks, and chases, or of any of our ancestors, or any other persons whatsoever, the selling, felling, and cutting of woods within forests and without, and all other things done or perpetrated before the said twenty-third day within our Kingdom of England, for which punishment might fall in due demands, or in fine and ransom, or in other pecuniary penalties, or in the forfeiture of the goods and chattels of the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or in the taxing of their persons, and all that which pertains, or may be able to pertain to us, against the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Com monalty, from the causes abovesaid or any one of them, any statutes, acts, ordinances made, published, or provided to the contrary notwithstanding. 

And, furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all and all manner of trespasses, contempts, forfeitures, misdeeds, and offenses done or perpetrated by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Com monalty before the aforesaid twenty-third day, against the form and effect of any statute, act, or ordinance published or provided concerning banks, weirs, ponds, piles, locks, mills, drains, sewers, tidal weirs, and weir baskets made, built, raised, enlarged, narrowed, or extended or non- extended, laid-down or not laid down, overthrown or not overthrown, or against the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Com monalty in any way presented or not presented and adjudged before any our justices, commissioners, or ministers, or of any of our progenitors : and all and all manner of amerce ments, fines, penalties, dues, and losses assessed or non-assessed, adjudged or non-adjudged, for the causes abovesaid, or any of them, in or against the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty : and all and all manner of forfeitures, fines, condemnations, and sums of money due and belonging to us, or any of our progenitors, by reason of the premises, or any of them ; and we give and grant the said forfeitures, fines, condemna tions, and sums of money to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty by the presents, the said Mayor, Bailift', and Commonalty to have them for themselves of our gift without giving, paying, or making account to us, or any thing else, on that behalf. 

And, likewise, we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff^ and Commonalty the issues and payments of any pieces of coined gold within our Kingdom of England or elsewhere, and of any vessels of plate, of unassayed bullion, and jewels of silver or gold, wrought or not wrought, by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or by any other person for the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or in their names, by any testator, or for any testator of the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or by any one else, or for any one else dying intestate, for whom the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty are administrators of goods and chattels, delivered and paid to any merchant, or other person, or other persons, foreign born, or born without our realm and obedience, or of any our progenitors, for any mer chandise or wares, by way of exchange, or otherwise, or in any other way whatsoever, before the aforesaid day, contrary to the form of a certain act published in the Parliament at Westminster in the fourth year of the reign of our very dear father Henry the Seventh, or against the form of any other statute, act, or ordinance published or provided on that behalf before the aforesaid twenty-third day ; and all for feitures and sums of money due and belonging to us, or any of our progenitors, on that account. 

Furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all manner of alienations, donations, and perquisitions in mortmain made, had, or re ceived, or to any use of them or any of their predecessors and their successors, made, and had without the royal licence ; also all manner of intrusions and entries on the temporalities of an archbishopric, bishopric, abbey, priory, college, hospital, or any other pious,religious, or ecclesiastical house whatsoever, made or had, before the aforesaid twenty-third day, by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or by any one else or other whatsoever. 

Furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release, by the presents, to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all and all manner of takings, receipts, perceptions, and detentions of whatsoever rents, issues, profits, and revenues of all and singular the lands and tenements and heredita- ments of traitors, murderers, homicides, felons attainted or convicted, and of all other felons, attainted clerks and convicted clerks, outlaws, the waifs of fugitives and sui cides, and in exacting claimed deodands, treasure trove, wreck of the sea, goods, waifs, and strays, belonging or forfeited in any way to us, which have come in any way into the hands or possession of the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty before the aforesaid twenty-third day of April, or to their use ; and we give and grant all and singular those rents, issues, profits, revenues, goods, chattels, and debts to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty by the presents to have for themselves of our gift without giving, paying, or making account or anything else on that behalf. 

Moreover, we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all and all manner of intrusions, trespasses, entries, and ingresses made and perpetrated, before the aforesaid day, by the said Mayor, Bailiff, or Commonalty, or by any one or more of their antecessors, or by any others whatsoever, in all and singular the manors, lands, tenements, and possessions, and heredita ments whatsoever of the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Common alty, of which the said Mayor, Bailiff [and Commonalty], be alone seised or possessed, or conjointly with other or others, or an other or others, be seised and possessed for their use, without due livery, information, or restitution of the same without the royal hand ; and all issues and profits of the said manors, lands, tenements, possessions, and hereditaments, and any parcels of them, taken and re ceived before the aforesaid twenty-third day of April by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or by anyone else whatsoever ; and we give and grant all the issues and profits of the said manors, lands, tenements, and heredita ments whatsoever accruing and arising before the said day to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, by-the presents, to have and receive, as well by their hands as by the hands of the escheators, bailiff^, farmers, and occupiers of the same, or any one of them, or of any parcel of them, without giving, paying, or making an account or anything else to us or our heirs on that behalf. 

And, moreover, we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all and all manner of intrusions, trespasses, and ingresses made and had before the said day by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty upon whatsoever our manors, lands and tene ments, possessions or hereditaments, or of any of our pro genitors, also of whatsoever our tenants, or the tenants of any of our progenitors or predecessors, being or not being in the custody of us, or of any of our progenitors : and all manner of seizures, abductions, and captures of whatsoever heirs of our tenants, or of any our progenitor, or of others whatsoever pertaining to us, or to anyone of our progenitors ; and all fines and forfeitures for the marriage, or the value, or double value, of the marriage of the said heirs, and any one of them, married before the said day ; and all that which on this behalf pertains, or ought or should pertain, to us ; and all issues, rents, revenues, and profits of all the premises taken and had before the said day by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Com monalty ; and we give and grant by the presents to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty the said issues, rents, revenues, and profits to said Mayor, Bailiff, and Common alty, to have to the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty of our gift without giving, paying, or making any account or anything else to us on that behalf. 

And, moreover, we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty all fines, ransoms, forfeitures, and trespasses, for the marriage of whatsoever our widows, or of any one our widow, or widows, or of the widow or widows of any of our progenitors, and of any widow or widows of this sort, for their marriages of any one of the heirs of our female tenants, or of any of our progenitors, married without the royal licence before the said day : also all issues and profits in whatsoever manner had or taken by the said Mayor, Bailiff^, and Com monalty before the aforesaid twenty-third day, of all and singular the manors, lands, tenements, rents, possessions, hereditaments, and wardships, and marriages whatsoever of the tenants and widows aforesaid, and of the heirs of our female tenants, or the tenants of any of our progenitors or predecessors, of whatsoever dignity and condition she or they may have been, we give and grant by the presents to the said Mayor, Bailiff*, and Commonalty, without giving, paying, or making an account or anything else to us or our heirs on that behalf. 

Moreover, we pardon, remit, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty all manner of wastes and destructions made by the said Mayor, Bailiff*, or Commonalty before the said twenty-third day of April in whatsoever lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of any person whatsoever who is, or was, at any time in our ward, or of any one of our progenitors, by reason of the said heir being under age, and all issues and profits of the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments of the said heir, and the ward and marriage of the said heir : and all that which pertains, or shall be able in any way to pertain, to us by reason of any waste or destruction of this kind, we give and grant by the presents to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, without giving, paying, or making any account or anything else to us or our heirs on that behalf. 

And furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release, by the presents to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, all manner of donations, alienations, and perquisitions, made and had before the said day, the royal licence therefore not having been obtained, by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or by any other person, or any other persons, on all lands and tenements, hereditaments, and possessions whatsoever, of which the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, be seised alone, or conjointly together with another or others, or any one else, or any others, is or are seised for the use of the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty held of us, or any one of our progenitors, in capite or otherwise, through any person or persons whatsoever: and the takings, receipts, issues, revenues, and profits of the said lands, tenements and hereditaments, and possessions, and of any parcel of them, made or had before the said day ; also we give and grant by the presents the said issues, profits, and revenues, to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, to have of our gift without giving, paying, or making to us an account or anything else for them or any one of them. 

Furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release, to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty all and all manner of benevolences, and all and all manner of sums of money under the name of benevolences, howsoever due to our dearest father, Henry VII., lately King of England, and to us, or to other our progenitors or predecessors, by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or by any of their ante cessors, or by any one else, or by any testator, or any testators of the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or by any one dying intestate, the administration of whose goods and chattels was committed and granted to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty : and all and all manner of tenths and fifteenths, aids, subsidies. double subsidies, and dimes, and tenths, due or granted by the said Mayor, Bailiff, or Commonalty to us, or our afore said dearest father, or any other of our progenitors or predecessors, before the aforesaid day ; and the collections, receipts, and detentions of the same, or of any parcel of the same, and every account and reckoning to be given, paid, and made in any way to us for them, or any of them. 

Furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release, to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, all and all manner of ingresses and entries on the lands, tenements, and heredita ments of any idiot or natural fool, and of all idiots and natural fools whatsoever, and any one of them, and of any person whatsoever who before the aforesaid twenty-third day of April was lunatic, or lucid at intervals ; and the receipts, revenues, and profits, of the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and of any parcels of them, received or had by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or by any one else in their names, or for their use, before the said day, we give and grant to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, to have for themselves of our gift without giving, paying, or making an account or anything else to us or our heirs on that behalf. 

And furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release, by the presents to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, all and all manner of purchases, sales, receipts, and occupations of alluvions made and perpetrated by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, within our Kingdom of England or else where, contrary to the form of any ordinance or proclamation published or made before the aforesaid twenty-third day of April, and the forfeitures and contempts on that behalf. 

. Also, we pardon, remit, and release, to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, all manner of for feitures, concealments, frauds, usuries, contracts of usury, corrupt and unlawful bargains, and agreements, pur chases, and sales, and attempts and forfeitures what soever, by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, before the aforesaid day, against the form of any statute or any statutes published and provided in a Parlia ment held at Westminster, in the third year of the reign of our very dearest father, for the reformation of corrupt and unlawful bargains to be made henceforward, and against the form and order of another statute or ordinance similarly published and provided in a Parlia ment held at Westminster in the eleventh year of the reign of our aforesaid dearest father, for the punishment of usuries or usurers, and for feneration, purveyance, or imitation of money against the form of the ordinance, either of that Act, or any other Act or order published and provided on that behalf. 

Furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release, to the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty, all manner of offences and trespasses done against us, or any of our progenitors or predecessors, by the said Mayor, Bailiff^, and Com monalty, contrary to the form of whatsoever and singular the statutes concerning the non-finding security by recog nizances in our Chancellery after any exchange by the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty, or their testators, or any one else dying intestate, the administration of whose goods was entrusted to the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Com monalty, for appraising the value of the thing or money, within our Kingdom of the commodities of this Kingdom, so exchanged by the said Mayor, Bailiff^, and Commonalty : and all forfeitures, penalties, and sums of money due or pertaining to us on tiiis behalf : and all manner of forfeitures, concealments, frauds, usuries, contracts of usury, corrupt bargains, chevisances, conventions, colourings, exchanges, corrupt and unlawful re-exchanges, misprisions, contempts, impeachments, receipts, purchases, mutuations, prestations, makings, and sales of unlawful woollen cloths, linens, silks, fleeces, hides, tin, lead, merchandise, wares, and any other things whatsoever, and the deliveries of the same ; also illicit sales for the non prompt payment of sums of money, of wares sold to foreign merchants, or for days of payment given for an unlawful sale ; also all and ail manner of cheats, frauds, offenses in the making of woollen cloths, and for shortening their length or breadth ; and all cheats, frauds, offences, and misprisions concerning woollen cloths, and pur chases and sales of whatsoever woollen cloths unsealed, or not being of such good manufacture as they might or should be according to the form of any statute published on that behalf, and by the custom and law of the land, or otherwise ; and all and all manner of purchases and sales whatsoever of all wines, oils, victuals, and other merchandise not gauged, and detentions and forfeitures of the same, by the said Mayor, Bailiff^ and Commonalty, howsoever and how often done, had committed or perpetrated before the said day : also the shipping, taking, landing, placing, taking across, taking away, carrying off", and transportation of whatsoever goods and chattels, gold, silver, or any other merchandise, wares, and things whatsoever, as well from this Kingdom of England, the town of Calais, Ireland, and the Marches of Wdes, or elsewhere, to the Kingdom of Denmark, or to other transmarine parts whatsoever, as from the parts of Iceland, Norway, and other transmarine parts whatsoever in to this our Kingdom of England, the town of Calais, Ireland, or the Marches of Wales, or elsewhere ; and the introducing from foreign and transmarine parts whatsoever, for sale into this our Kingdom of England, whatsoever ribbons, girdles, silks, fish, or other merchandise and things whatsoever, and detentions of the same, and the forfeitures and values of the same, and all manner of frauds, tres passes, and off^enses in, or for false weights and measures whatsoever : also all manner of ofi^enses, trespasses, forfeit ures, fines, penalties, and contempts against the form of the ordinances, and eff^ect of whatsoever statutes, acts, ordinances, or provisions published or provided against usurers and pourprestures of usuries, regrations, and forestalla tions, or corrupt undue or illicit bargains or chevisances. or illicit purchases or sales done in our time, or in the time of -any of our progenitors or predecessors, formerly or lately Kings of England, before the aforesaid twenty- third day of April, or against our law of England, for which the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty might fall or be in punishment, demand forfeiture or loss of any sum or any sums, or in forfeiture of their goods and chattels, things, and merchandise, or their values, or any parcel of them ; Also all manner of trespasses, omissions, forfeitures, concealments, customs, and subsidies, substrac tions, and cognisances of the same ; and undue and unjust entries of merchandise, wares, and other things whatsoever, in books of the customer or of other our officers, or of our progenitors, and embezzlements of the same, and of whatsoever things forfeited by reason of the premises, or any of them, done or perpetrated before the said day by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty. 

We have furthermore pardoned, remitted, and released, and by the presents do pardon, release, and remit, to the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, all manner of forfeitures, debts, and demands due, pertaining, or belonging to us by reason of any recognisances, assumptions, manu captions, immunitions of bonds, or any other deeds what soever made or had before the said twenty-third day of April to us, or our progenitors, or to any other person, or any other persons, for our use, for the use of any our progenitors, by the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty alone, or by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty con- jointly with other persons, or another person, for themselves, or for any other person, or for any other persons, for thus securing our peace, or of any of our progenitors, or tor making whatsoever appearance, or for their fidelity or loyalty, or the loyalty of any other persons, or for their good conduct, or for the good conduct of any other person, or other persons, for them or themselves, before us, or any of our progenitors, or in our Chancellery, or of any of our progenitors, or in any our court, or any of our progenitors, before any of our chancellors or justiciars or commissaries, or of any of our progenitors, or before us and our council, or of any of our progenitors and his council, or before the council of any of our progenitors, or before any one or more of the council of any of our progenitors, or the councillors or councillor of any of our progenitors : and also, all and all manner of tines, issues, and amercements, penalties, debts, demands, and losses whatsoever forfeited, adjudged, or non-adjudged by the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty, by reason of the premises, or any of them, in whatsoever our courts, or of any of our progenitors, or otherwise 'in any way : also, all manner of offences, tres passes, forfeitures, losses had, made, or perpetrated before the said day, by the said Mayor, Bailiff", and Commonalty, against the form of whatsoever statutes and provisions concerning prohibited and unlawful sports and plays. 

And furthermore, we have pardoned, remitted, and released, and, by the presents, do pardon, remit, and release, to the said Mayor, Bailiff^, and Commonalty, all manner of outlawries whatsoever promulgated before the aforesaid day, against the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, by reason or occasion of the premises, or any of them, or for any other thing, cause, or matter whatsoever, as well as at our suit, as at the suit of any one, or any of our progenitors, or of any one, or any others whatsoever ; and we grant our firm peace to the said Mayor, Bailiff^, and Commonalty, on that behalf, so that, nevertheless, they may abide the sentence of our court if any one wish to implead them on that behalf : and all manner of forfeitures of whatsoever goods and chattels, issues and profits, of whatsoever lands and tenements forfeited to us, or any of our progenitors, before the said day, by reason of that outlawry, or those outlawries ; and we give and grant of our gift by the presents to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, all the said goods, chattels, issues, and profits in whomsoever, or whosesoever hands or possession they may be, or any parcel of them, without giving, paving, or making any account or any other thing to us, or our heirs on that behalf. 

Furthermore, we pardon, remit, and release, to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, all manner of contempts, fines, and forfeitures, made or forfeited to us, or any of our progenitors, before the said twenty-third day, for not having undertaken, or undertaking, or not assuming or receiving a military order : and also, all and all manner of wastes, demolition, and falling to ruin of houses done, permitted, or perpetrated, before the said day, against the form of the statute of our father, the lord Henry VII., lately King of England, provided on that behalf in the fourth year of his reign, and all the forfeit pertaining or belonging on that account to us, or any of our progenitors. 

And also, we pardon, release, and remit, all manner of fines and amercements of counties, cities, boroughs or towns, or villages, due or lost to us, or any of our progenitors, before the aforesaid twenty-third day of April, at the cause of anyone. 

We furthermore pardon, remit, and release, to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, all manner of buildings, of towers, and embatding and machicolating of houses, walls, or of any other building, or whatsoever buildings, belonging to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or to any one else for their use, done, per petrated, or repaired by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Com monalty, or any other person whatsoever, before the said time ; and all that which pertains, or may and might pertain, to us by reason of the premises, or any one of them, we give and grant by the presents to the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty. 

And furthermore, of our fuller and more abundant grace and mere motion, we pardon, remit, and release, by the presents, to the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, all and singular ruptures, infractions, and violations, of all and singular whatsoever statutes, acts, ordinances, pro visions, restrictions, proclamations, and prohibitions how soever done, published, or provided, before the said twenty-third day of April ; and all and singular trespasses, contempts, and offenses howsoever done or perpetrated, before the said day, by the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Common alty, against the form and effect of any one of the said statutes, acts, ordinances, provisions, restrictions, proclamations, and prohibitions however done, published, or provided : also all and singular forfeitures, punishments, imprisonments, fines, redemptions, amercements, pecuniary and corporal penalties, suits, pleas, prosecutions, condemnations, judg ments, executions, debts, sums of money, and demands, which we, or any of our progenitors, have, or shall be able to have, against the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, or we, or our heirs have and had, or shall be able to have, against the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, before the said day, by reason, virtue, vigour, or occasion of the infraction, rupture, or violation of any of the statutes, acts, ordinances, provisions, restrictions, proclamations, and prohibitions aforesaid, or any one of them. 

And also we pardon, remit, and release, to the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, all and all manner of actions, suits, pleas, impeachments, and demands, which we have, had, or shall be able to have, against the said Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, for the premises, or any of the premises, by reason or occasion of the premises, or any of them, contained and specified in these our letters patent up to the said twenty- third day of April. 

And furthermore, of our fuller grace, and in the plenitude of our royal power, we will, and expressly command, that our present pardon or grant, and all and singular the articles con tained and specified in the presents, as well as regards its sense and intention, as also the words be explained, declared, interpreted, and judged kindly, favourably, and graciously, and also for the use and benefit of the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty, and as is customary and in no other way, provided that there be not made at all, by the presents, the express mention of the true annual value, or of any other value, or of the certainty of the premises, or of any of them, or of other gifts or grants made to the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiff, and Commonalty by us, or by any of our progenitors or predecessors before the said twenty-third day of April, or in any statute, act, ordinance, provisions, or restrictions to the contrary made, published, or ordained on that behalf, or any matter, thing, or cause whatsoever notwithstanding. 

In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent. 

Witness myself at Westminster on the twelfth aay of February in the third year of our reign. 

(By the King himself — Waren.) 

Part of the Great Seal — white — remains.