Ady,—Privy Seal, Westminster, 19 April,—patent, 29 May, 1606.—4 James I. 1a pars d. R. 2. The King in this Privy Seal, thus writes: "We find it needful for our service to advance our Attorney in that Kingdom to the place of a Judge in our Bench of Common Pleas there, and in his place of Attorney we have made choice of Sir John Davys, Knt., now our Solicitor, to succeed and he our Attorney, and to take into the room of our Solicitor, which by his remove shall he void, a Counsellor-at-Law, practising in the Kingdom, and recommended; therefore we will and command you to signify this our pleasure to them, and give order for such writs or Letters Patent as shall he necessary for each of them to have, to authorize him in the place appointed to him by these our letters, with all such fees, profits, and commodities as any others having had the said offices formerly had and enjoyed; and these our Letters shall he a sufficient warrant and discharge in this behalf."—Idem.
Gerald Lowther,—an additional Judge,—Privy Seal, Kensington, 24 August,—patent, 12 Oct. 1610,—pleasure.—£100 English additional fee.—The King, understanding that there did want assistance in the Court of Common Pleas, in regard of the infirmity of some of the Judges, was pleased, for the better expedition of his service in that Court, and of justice to his subjects, to he at the charge of one Justice more
