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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22578	Charles by the grace of God King of England ... whereas by the humble supplication and petition of our louing seruant Sir Richard Graham ... we are credibly given to vnderstand that hee hath formerly had a grant vnder our Great Seale, and Dutchy seale, for the building of the Church of Kirkeanders ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1634 (1634)	STC 9021.5; ESTC S395	2,286	1

C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE CHARLES By the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all and singular Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons Deanes and their Officials Parsons Vicars Curates and to all spirituall Persons And also to all Iustices of Peace Maiors Sheriffes Bayliffes Constables Churchwardens and Headboroughes And to all Officers of Cities Boroughs and Townes Corporate And to all other our Officers Ministers and Subjects whatsoeuer they bee aswell within Liberties as without to whom these Presents shall come Greeting WHEREAS by the humble Supplication and Petition of our louing Seruant sir Richard Graham knight and Baronet one of Our Queries We are credibly given to vnderstand that hee hath formerly had a grant vnder Our great Seale and Dutchy seale for the building of the Church of Kirkeanders with two Chappels of Ease within our County of Cumberland bordering vpon Our kingdome of Scotland for the better education and instruction of the people there for want to which they are run into many inconueniences And that Our Seruant hath proceeded for the finishing thereof so farre as his ability will extend and cannot finish it the charge thereof being too great for him to undergoe and hath therefore most humbly besought Vs that according to Our Princely zeale to workes of this nature We would be gratiously pleased to grant vnto him Our Letters Patents for some helpe to bee made therein by way of a Collection of the charity of weldlsposed people And whereas upon further consideration taken of this extraordinary case we are giuen to vnderstand by speciall Certificats vnder the hands of our trusty and welbeloued Subjects sir Phillip Musgraue and sir Patrick Curwen Baronets sir Edward Musgraue sir George Dalston sir Henry Blincowe sir Iohn Lowther sir Thomas Carleton and sir Thomas Dacre knights and Anthony Hutton Esquior Iustices of the Peace within our foresayd county of Cumberland That our Royall Father King Iames of blessed memory did for the Church of Arthurett adjoyning grant a Collection by way of a Briefe towards so charitable worke by which meanes the said Church is built all but the Steeple But the Church of Kirkeanders lyeth as yet vnbuilt and the Parishioners thereof are inforced to goe to Arthurett Church over the Riuer Eske When they can passe for the said Riuer which is very seldome their being neither Church nor Chapell in the Parish of Kirkeanders for reading divine seruice And therefore they haue commended the same vnto us And that they have also seene an estimate of the Charge vnder the hands of Masons Carpenters and Ioyners which will Amount vnto the Summe of Three Thomsand Pounds at the least for building the Church and Two Chappels of Ease according to our late direction under our great Seale and Dutchy Seale And therefore they haue likewise des●●ed our furtherance therein for so pyous a worke it being the principall m●anes to informe our Subjects therein the true grounds of Christianity hereof they stand in great need Now forasmuch as we tendring the glory of God and comfort and Saluation of the Soules of our loving Subjects as also upon the humble request of our foresaid Iustices and likewise vpon the humble Petition of Our foresaid Seruant sir Richard Graham have condiscended thereunto for a Collection to be made within certaine Counties and places hereafter mentioned Not doubting but that all good Christians considering the premisses will be ready and willing and the rather for Our Commendation to extend their liberall contributions towards the furtherance of so goodly and religious a worke KNOW Ye therefore that of Our especiall grace and Princely compassion We have given and granted and these Our Letters Patents doe give and grant unto Our said Servant sir Richard Graham and to his Deputy and Deputies the Bearer or Bearers hereof full power Licence and authority to aske gather receive and take the Almes and chapitable benevolence of all Our loving Subjects whatsoever Inhabiting within Our Cities of London and Westminster with the Suburbs and Liberties thereof And in our Counties of Cumberland Northumberland Westmerland Durham Lancaster Yorke Derby Nottingham Lincolne Rutland Le●cester Northampton Bedford Hertford Middlesex Essex Kent Surrey Cambridge Norfoke and Suffolke our Citie of Carlioll Our Towne and County of Newcastl vpon Tyne our Cities of Durham and Yorke our Townes and Counties of Kingstone vpon Hull and No●t●ngham our Cities of Lincolne Peterbo●ough Canterbury and Rochester with our Cinque Ports our Borough of Southwarke our Vniversity of Cambridge and Isle of Ely our Citty of Norwich and Towns and County of the same And in all other Cities Townes Corporate Priviledged places Parishes Vilages and in all other place whatsoever within our said Counties and not elsewhere for and towards the building of the said Church and two Chappels of Ease WHEREFORE We will and command you and every of you that at such time and times as the said Sir Richard Graham his Deputy or Deputies the Bearer or Bearers hereof shall come and repaire to any your Churches Chappels or other Places to aske and receive the gratuities and charitable benevolence of our said Subjects quietly to permit and suffer them so to doe without any manner your less or contradictions And you the said Parsons Vicars and Curates for the better stirring up of a charitable devotion deliberately to publish and declare the Tenour of these our Letters Patents or the Coppie or Briefe hereof unto our said Subiects upon some Sabbath day when as the same shall be tendered unto you Exhort●ng and perswading them to extend their liberall contributions in so good and godly a deede AND You the Churchwardens of every Parish where such Collection is to be made as aforesaid to Collect and gather the Almes and charitable benevolence of all our loving Subjects aswell strangers as others And what shall be by you so gathered to bee by the Minister and your selves endorsed on the backside of these our Offers Patents or the Coppy or Briefe thereof in wor●s at length and not in Figures and the Summe and Summes of Money of so gathered and endorsed to deliver to the Bearer or Bearers of these our Letters Patents and to no other person when as thereunto you shall be required Any statute Law Ordinance or Provision heretofore made to the contrary in any wise not withstanding IN Witnesse whereof Wee have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents for the space of one Whole yeere next after the date hereof to indure Witnesse Our selfe at Westminster the Eight day of November in the Tenth yeere of Our Raigne ❀ Da●…e ❀ God saue the King Printed by Thomas Purfoot