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that wee haue likewise given and graunted for the Consider- 

 acon aforesayd and by these presents for vs our heires and 

 successors doe give and graunt to the sayd Thoiris Lovett 

 the office and place of Keeper of our said Garden now 

 belonging to o'" said house and of any other garden that shall 

 hereafter belonge to the said house. To have hold exercise 

 and enioy the office and place of Keeper of o'" said garden 

 aforesaid together with the premisses to him the said Thomas 

 Lovett or his sufficient Deputie or Deputies during his 

 naturall life, And further of our more especiall grace certen 

 knowledge and meere mocon Wee haue given and graunted, 

 and by these presents for vs our heires and successors doe 

 give and graunt to the sayd Thomas Lovett for the exercising 

 of the sayd place of Keeper of our Garden aforesayd, the 

 wages and fee of Twelue pence by the day of lawfuU money 

 of England, To HAUE enioy and yearely to receive the said 

 fee and wages of Twelue pence by the day to him the 

 sayd Thomas Lovett and his assignes from the feast of the 

 Nativity of S*^ John Baptist last past before the date hereof 

 during his naturall life out of the Treasure of vs our heires 

 and successors at the Receipt of the Exchequer of vs our 

 heires and successors, by the handes of the Treasurer, 

 Chauncello'", Vndertrer and other officers of vs our heires and 

 successors there for the time being, at the vsuall feastes of 

 the yeare, That is to say the feast of the Birth of our Lord 

 God and the Nativity of S' John the Baptist halfe yearely 

 by even porcons to be payd. Although expresse meiicon %l^ 

 In witness &*" Witness &'' Given vnder our Privy Scale 

 at our Pallace of Westm'' the five and twenty day of October 

 in the forth yere of our Raigne. 



Exd. Ja: Whylles 



recepi 5 of November 1628." * 



In November, 1628, Rowland Roberts was ap- 

 pointed keeper of the royal wardrobe at Newmarket 

 Palace, with the fee of \s. per day ; and ^10 for lights 



* Privy Seal, Anno quarto Carlo Re, No. 404, MS., P.R.O. 



