inno.] THE NFAV WARREN. 2:3 



deputy or Deputies During the life of liini the said Sir Allen 

 Apsley And further of our more ample grace certaine 

 knowledge and meere mocon Wee haue given and granted 

 and by these T!*"sents for vs o'' heires and Successors Wee doe 

 give and grant vnto the said Sir Allen Apsley for the exer- 

 cising of the said Offices of keep' of o'" said Warren and for 

 keeping of the said game the wages and Fee of sixtecne 

 pence of lawfull money of England by the day. To HAUi-: 

 and yearely to receiue the said Fee of sixteene pence by the 

 Day to the said Sir Allen Apsley and his Assignes from the 

 Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist last past before 

 the date thereof for and during his naturall life out of the 

 treasure of vs our heires and Successors at the Receipt of the 

 Excheq"^ of vs our heires and Successors by the hands of 

 the Treasurer Undertreasr and other Officers of vs our heires 

 and Successors there for the tyme being that is to say at the 

 Feasts of the birth of our Lord God and the Nativity of S*^ 

 John Baptist 'oy even porcons half yearely to be paid. 

 Although expresse menCon of the true yearely value or 

 certainty of the premisses or of any other of the mor of any 

 other guifts or grants by vs or by any of o"" Progenitors or 

 Predecessors heretofore to the said Sir Allen Apsley Knight 

 in these '^'"sents is not made or any Statute Act ordinance 

 Provision Proclamacon or Restricon heretofore had made 

 enacted ordained or prouided or any other matter cause or 

 thing whatsoeuer to the contrary thereof in any wise notwith- 

 standing. In Witness whereof we haue caused these o'' 

 Letters to be made Patents. WiTNES our selfe at Westm 

 the thirteenth day of September in the twelueth * yeare of 

 o'' Raigne. 



" By the King. HOWARD. 



"Inrotlatur iiij*" Januarij i66o[-6i]."t 



* Although Charles II. did not become king de facto until May 29, 

 1660, his regal years were computed from the death of his father, January 

 30, 1648-9 : the year of the Restoration being called the twelfth year of 

 his reign. 



t Pell's Enrolments. Patent Book, s. b. {Cf. MS. Harleian, 1884 

 fo. 32.) 



