Obtains a Free 

 Pardon. 



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Concerning a Grant The King and Queen &c. to all to whom Cheveley 



OF Pardon to &c. greeting. Whereas at the Session of 



Lord Do\'ER. Oyer and Terminer held for our citty of 



London at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey in 

 London in the Parish of St. Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without 

 London aforesaid on Wednesday namely on the gth day of October in the 

 first year of our reign before Thomas Pilkington, knight, Mayor of the City 

 of London, Henry Pollexfen, knight, our Chief Justice of the Bench [de 

 Banco), John Powell, knight, one of our Justices of the Bench, Thomas 

 Rokeby, knight, another of our Justices of the Bench, John Lawrence, 

 knight. Patience Ward, knight, John Moore, knight, Robert Geffery, 

 knight, and Peter Daniell, knight, Aldermen of the City aforesaid and 

 Henry Crispe, esquire, and others, their fellows our Justices, by our Letters 

 Patent made to the afore Justices aforesaid and others and to certain four 

 or more of them under our Great Seal of England to enquire by the oath of 

 good honest and lawful men of the City aforesaid and by other ways 

 manners and means by which they may or can better know (as well within 

 the liberties as without) concerning certain treasons, misprisions of treasons 

 and concealments of treasons, against us out of this our Kingdom of 

 England by whosoever and howsoever had made perpetrated or committed 

 according to the form of the Statute in Parliament of Lord Henry VIII. late 

 King of England &c. in the 35th year of his reign held at Westminster 

 made and issued and assigned to hear and determine the same treasons and 

 other the premises (this turn) according to the law and custom of our realm 

 of England by the oath of John Stacy, William Fownes, John Singleton, 

 William Broughton, Benjamin Smith, Anthony Meiry, William Trigg, 

 Joseph Came, Walter Acton, John Greene, John Warner, Benjamin Hill, 

 Thomas Hanwell, Benjamin Godfrey, Nicholas Letchmore, Edward Parsons 

 and Richard Hopkins, good, honest, and lawful men, of our City of London 

 aforesaid being then and there sworn and charged to enquire for Us and 

 the Corporation of the City aforesaid {pro nobis et corporum. civitatis 

 predicti) it is presented that James Duke of Berwick late of London, Robert 

 Lord Hunsden, late of London, Henry Lord Dover, late of London and 

 divers other persons mentioned in the said indictment not having the fear 

 of God in their hearts nor considering their allegiance but being moved and 

 seduced by diabolical instigation as false traitors and rebles against us their 

 supreme true and undoubted Lord and Lady, wholly withdrawing the cordial 

 love and true and due obedience fidelity and allegiance which our true and 

 faithful subjects bear towards us and of right are held to bear and 

 contriving and intending treasonably to depose and altogether deprive 

 us of and from the royal state, title, power, empire and rule of our 



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