SEBASTIAN CABOT'S LARGE PENSION ad 



1549 

 & recipiendas praefato Sebastiano Cabotae & assignatis 



suis de thesauro nostro prasdicto per manus praedic- 



torum Thesaurariorum, & Camerariorum nostrorum de 



dono nostro absque computo, seu aliquo alio nobis, 



haeredibus, vel successoribus nostris proinde reddendo, 



solvendo, vel faciendo : eo quod expressa mentio, &c. 



In cujus rei testimonium, &c. Teste Rege, apud West- 



monasterium 6. die Januarii, Anno 2. Regis Edwardi ^nno &• 



sexti. 1 >W° 



The same in English. 



EDward the sixt by the grace of God, King of 

 England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, 

 to all Christian people to whom these presents shall 

 come, sendeth greeting. Know yee that we, in con- 

 sideration of the good and acceptable service done, and 

 to be done, unto us by our beloved servant Sebastian 

 Cabota, of our speciall grace, certaine knowledge, meere 

 motion, and by the advice and counsel of our most 

 honourable uncle Edward duke of Somerset governour 

 of our person, and Protector of our kingdomes, 

 dominions, and subjects, and of the rest of our Coun- 

 saile, have given & granted, and by these presents do 

 give and graunt to the said Sebastian Cabota, a certaine 

 annuitie, or yerely revenue of one hundreth, threescore 

 & sixe pounds, thirteene shillings foure pence sterling, 

 to have, enjoy, and yerely receive the foresaid annuitie, 

 or yerely revenue, to the foresaid Sebastian Cabota 

 during his natural life, out of our Treasurie at the 

 receit of our Exchequer at Westminster, at the hands 

 of our Treasurers & paymasters, there remayning for 

 the time being, at the feasts of the Annuntiation of the 

 blessed Virgin Mary, the Nativitie of S. John Baptist, 

 S. Michael ye Archangel, & the Nativitie of our Lord, 

 to be paid by equal portions. 



And further, of our more speciall grace, and by the [in. a.) 

 advise and consent aforesaide wee doe give, and by 

 these presents doe graunt unto the aforesaide Sebastian 



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