us, our heirs or successors, in capite, or by knight's service, to have and to hold to them their heirs and successors for ever.

And furthermore, for us, our heirs and successors, we give and grant licence to all and every person or persons whatsoever, that they, and every of them, may be able and of power to grant, bequeath, or assign or alien the mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the town aforesaid, and their successors, any lands, tenements, rents, and hereditaments, with the appurtenances and form aforesaid, to the yearly value aforesaid, or under, but not above, so that the same lands, tenements, rents, and hereditaments, be not held of us, our heirs or suc cessors, in capite, nor knight's service, to have and to hold to the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses and commonalty of the county of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, and their successors for ever, the statute against land or tenements, put in mortmain, or any other act, statute, ordinance, or provision, to the contrary thereof, made any wise notwithstanding.

chancery, or the chancery of our heirs or successors, or elsewhere, and without having, obtaining, or prosecuting any of our writs, or the writs of our heirs or successors, of ad quod damnum in that behalf, the statute of not putting lands and tenements into mortmain, or any other statute, act, ordinance, provision, restraints, or other mandates, from thence to the contrary, concerning the same, before these times made or established, or any other thing, cause, or matter whatsoever, to the contrary notwithstanding.

And that the mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the town aforesaid, nor their successors, nor the aforesaid person or persons, nor the heirs of them, or any of them, be troubled or aggrieved by reason of the premiums, or any of them, by us, our justices, escheators, sheriffs, coroners, or other bailiffs or ministers of us, our heirs, and successors, and this without fee or fine, great or small, in the hanaper of the chancery, or elsewhere, to our use for the premises, or any of the premises, to be paid or done without any inquisition or inquisitions, from thence by precept, or virtue of any of our commissioners, or the commissioners of our heirs or successors, to be returned into our

And furthermore, of our ample special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for us, our heirs and successors, we give and grant licence unto the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, and to their successors for ever, that it may, and shall be, lawful for the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the aforesaid town, and their successors, and for every of them being merchants of the said town, and not otherwise, to ship, load, carry, and transport from the foresaid town, and from the port of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, and from all other ports, creeks, bays, and places between the sound of the Beerloom's and Fair Furlongs, aforesaid, and from every of them, out of one realm and kingdom of Ireland, to all and every our kingdoms and dominions, and to all other regions and kingdoms whatsoever then shall be in our friendship, or the friendship of our heirs and successors for the time being, all manner of grain, so that the price of a Bristol-band barrel of wheat do not exceed the price of sixteen shillings current money of Ireland, and also all other merchandize or ware, commodities, and other things hereafter hereafter encreasing, happening,

renewing, or to be made within our kingdom of Ireland, or any part thereof, yielding and paying thereout to us, our heirs and successors, poundage and subsidy, and also the two parts to be divided, parts three of all and singular our customs due and payable to us, our heirs and successors, without any penalty, seizure or forfeiture thereout, to us, our heirs and successors, to be made, rendered, or incurred, saving notwithstanding to us, our heirs and successors, the parts of the customs aforesaid, to be divided into three parts as aforesaid; and also the poundage or payment of twelve pence out of the pound, and all other subsidies, (except the third part of the customs thereout payable,) for all such merchandize to be exported or transported out of the same town or county, and from any port or creek of the same, payable, and to be paid to us, our heirs and successors, unless we, our heirs, or our deputy-general of the said realm of Ireland for the time being, or our council, or the deputy-general, or council of our heirs and successors, there for some just special cause, shall prohibit, and think fit to prohibit such transportations of the grain aforesaid, forbidding that the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the town aforesaid, for the time being, or their succesSOFS, by reason of the premes., should after any manner be occasioned, troubled, forced, vexed, or after any sort grieved by us, our heirs or successors, or by our jus tices, escheators, sheriffs, bailiffs, customs, or any other of our officers or ministers, or the officers and ministers of our heirs and successors, notwithstanding the statute made in the parliament held in the 66th year of the reign of our predecessor, Lord Edward the fourth, late king of England; that is to say, That

no staple wares should be transported or carried into the realm of Scotland, or into any part thereof, without paying the customs, and that no kind of grain should be laden, shipped or transported out of the said kingdom of Ireland, unless the said grain were under a certain price as in the same act is specified, and notwithstanding the statute made in the 11th and 12th years of the reign of the Lady Elizabeth, late queen of England, by whatsoever merchandize are prohibited to be shipped, embarked, or transported out of this kingdom of Ireland, under sundry pains, as in the said statutes more fully is contained, or any other statute, act, ordinance, or provision whatsoever.

And furthermore, of our more special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for us, our heirs and successors, we give and grant to the foresaid mayor, sheriff's, burgesses, and commonalty of the town of Carrickfergus aforesaid, and their successors, for the better maintenance of the said town, and the inhabitants thereof, that it shall not be lawful for any persons to discharge, unload or unship, carry, export or convey, any grain, hides, tallow, wool, linen, yarn, cloth of all sorts, or any other commodities or merchandizes whatsoever, in, or to, out, or from, any port, bay, or creek, within the sound of Beerlooms, and Fair Furlongs aforesaid, (the bays or creeks of Belfast, Bangor, and Olderfleet, only excepted,) except in or at, or out or from the port or quay of the town of Knockfergus, under the pain of forfeiture of all and singular such commodities, things, and merchandizes, so discharged or unloaded, unshippel, carried out, or transported to the foresaid mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the town aforesaid, and to their successoss, for the

time being, and that no stranger discharge or unload within the said part of the said town of Knockfergus, in or within the limits, franchises, and liberties of the same town, nor shall convey, or carry away, from the said port, any goods, commodities, or merchandizes, to any other place or town, to be sold, or to be put to sale by retail, unless such person or persons so loading and discharging the foresaid commodities and merchandizes, within the said port of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, and the franchises and liberties of the same, be free inhabitants and comorants in the said town of Knockfergus, or within the liberties or franchises of the same, or in some other incorporate town in our said realm of Ireland, in whatsoever case we will that every such person or persons immediately be fore the unloading and discharge ing of such commodities and merchandize, shall bind themselves to convey and carry away the same commodities and merchandizes, without delay to the said corporate town, there to be sold and put to sale, and in no place else whatsoever.

And furthermore, we have given, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do give unto the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, and to their successors, that aforesaid sheriffs of the said town of Knockfergus aforesaid, whatever for the time being shall be from time to time, shall be able and of power, to account, by an attorney or attornies, by them deputed by letters patent, under the common seal of the same town, before the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, of our heirs and successors in our realm of Ireland, of all manner of accounts and debts due, levyed, or payable by the foresaid sheriffs of the same town,

to us, our heirs and successors, or charged, or to be charged upon them, or any of them, against us, our heirs and successors, and to render account aforesaid, by the said attorneys from time to time before the treasurer and barons of the exchequer aforesaid, and that the said sheriff's upon every account to be made by their attorney aforesaid pay, or cause to be paid, to the officers of our exchequer aforesaid, the sum of six and twenty shillings," and eight pence, current money of Ireland, and no more, for all and every fees and vailes to the officers aforesaid, in that behalf to be given or paid, and that they perfect their accounts aforesaid, in manner aforesaid, by the treasurer and barons of our exchequer, or of our heirs and successors, be admitted and received from time to time, even as if the said sheriff's were present and sworn there in the said court of exchequer, to give a true account thereof, so that the payment of our debts, and the debts of our heirs and suc-* cessors, on that behalf, be in no wise retarded, and that the sheriffs of the town of Knockfergus, for the time being, and every of them, for ever from time to time, shall take their corporal oaths, before the mayor of the said town of Knockfergus, for the time being, that every such account, so by them to be transmitted to the exchequer, and by their attorneys, from time to time, to be past as true, and that all and every the mayors of the said town of Knockfergus, for the time being, by these presents. and every of them, may have full power and au thority from time to time for ever, to administer all such oaths to the sheriffs aforesaid, without any other commission or warrant of ours, our heirs or successors, to be in that behalf obtained, and that the said sherif, nor their attornies, or any

of them, shall be compelled to swear before the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, that such account shall be true, any statute, act, ordinance, prescription, custom, provision, or any other thing whatso ever, to the contrary notwithstand ing.

And we also will, and by these presents for us, our heirs and suc cessors, grant to the said mayor, sherits, burgesses, and commonalty of the town of Knockfefgus, and to their successors, that the mayor of the aforesaid town for the time being, and his successors mayors of the town aforesaid, for the time being, for ever, viz. that every of them successively during the time he shall be in the office of mayor of the same town, that he may and shall be custos rotulorum, recorder of pleas, filers of recognizances, and of all our writs, or the writs of our heirs and successors, in the foresaid town, and in the county of the town aforesaid, and that may do, exercise, and execute all and every thing which to the office of custos rotulorum, in the town and county of the town aforesaid, appertaineth to be done, according to the laws and customs of our kingdom of Ire land, to take, receive, and levy all and singular the fees, rewards, adantages, profits, and emoluments whatsoever, to the said office doth belong or appertain.

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We also grant, for us, our heirs and successors, unto the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and monalty of aforesaid town, and to their successors, that the clerk of the tholsel or the town-clerk of the same town, whoever shall be for the time, and his successors, shall for ever be in times to come the clerk of our crown and peace, in our county of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, and that both he and they may have and exercise, and be able and

of power to have and exercise the office of clerk of our crown and peace, and the crown and peace of our heirs and successors, taken thereout all and singular fees, vailes, rewards, profits, and emoluments, whatsoever, belonging to the said office, from time to time, in as ample manner and form as any clerk of the crown and peace, in any other county within our kingdom of Ireland, had or received, hath or receiveth, or ought to have and receive, and to do all and singular what belongs by the clerk of the crown and peace of the said town and county, to be done and exercised, and that no other clerk of the crown or peace, of us, our heirs or successors, or * any custos rotulorum of ours, our heirs and successors, may enter or intermeddle in any thing that belongs to the office of clerk of the crown and peace, and custos rotulorum in the said town and county to be done.

And furthermore, of our more plentiful special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, we have given and granted, and by these presents for us, our heirs and succes sois, do give, graut, and confirm to the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid and their successors, that the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the town aforesaid, and their successors, and all and other the inhabitants of the said town of Knockfergus, from time to time, may, have and every of them may have, enjoy, common of tur bary, in all places near Loghmorn, as also common of bog, turbary, and heath, and of all other fewels necessary to be burned in the houses, ovens, and kitchens of the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the said town of Knockfergus aforesaid, or any of them within the aforesaid town, for the space