1628.] APPOINTED KEEPER OF THE PALACE. 85 



for his life, w^'^ wee are graciously pleased to yeild vnto, 

 Knowe yee therefore that wee of our especiall grace certeyne 

 knowledge and meere mocon, and at the said humble request 

 and peticon of the said S' Robert Vernon and for diverse 

 other good causes and consideracons vs herevnto moving haue 

 giuen and graunted, and by these presents for vs our heires 

 and successors doe give and graunt vnto the sayd Thomas 

 Lovett the said office of Custodie and Keeping of our sayd 

 House at Newmarkett in the County of Cambridge, And 

 him the sayd Thomas Levitt Keeper of our said House 

 and of the Stables Brewhouses, and all other Outhouses 

 edifices backsides and groundes whatsoever now built or 

 hereafter to be built there, and w"'' doe now belong or shall 

 hereafter belong and apperteine to our sayd House, Wee 

 doe make ordeine and appoint by those presents, To HAUE 

 HOLDE and enioy the said office of Custody and Keeping 

 of our sayd house at Newmarkett, together w"^ the Stables 

 Brewhouses outhowses and all other the premisses to the 

 sayd Thomas Lovett during his naturall life, together w"* 

 all profitts and Comodityes to the same belonging or in any 

 wise apperteyning. And further out of our more ample 

 grace certeine knowledge and meere mocon we haue given 

 and graunted and by these presents for vs our heires and 

 successors wee doe give and graunt to the sayd Thomas 

 Lovett for the Keeping of y^ said House the wages and fee 

 of Twelue pence by the day of lawfull money of England, 

 To haue and yearely to receive the sayd fee of Twelue pence 

 by the day to him the said Thomas Lovett and his Assignes 

 from the feast of the Nativity of S* John the Baptist last 

 past before the date hereof for and during the naturall life 

 of him the said Thomas Lovett out of the Treasure of Vs 

 our heires and successors at the Receipt of the Exchequer 

 of vs our heires and successors by the hands of the Trer 

 Chauncello"" Vnder Trer and other officers of vs our heires and 

 Successors there, for the time being at two vsuall tearmes or 

 feastes of the yeare That is to say At the feast of the Birth 

 of our Lord God and the Nativity of St. John Baptist halfe 

 yearley by even porcons to be payd. And further knowe yee 



