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GREAT LAW OFFICERS IN IRELAND.

the advice and consent of our right trusty and well-beloved councillor Sir Henry Sidney, Knight of our Order of the Grarter, Lord President of our Marches of Wales, one of our Privy Council in England, and Lord Deputy General of our realm of Ireland, to give and grant, like as herehy we do give and grant, full power and authority to our well-beloved Edward Pitz Symon, our Sergeant at Law, not only to sit in our said High Court of Chancery, and there to hear, decide, order, decree, and determine such cause and causes as depend in' the said Court, or hereafter shall he brought in suit in the said Court, and further to do, execute, proceed, and set forth all and every other thing and things in the said Court, in as large and ample manner as the said Nicholas Whyte, as Master of the Rolls, or any other before him in that office might and ought to have done in the said Court of Chancery; but also do give and grant to the said Edward the custody and keeping of the Rolls, records, phillaces, books, and other writings of the said Court which pertaineth to the keeping of the Master of the Rolls' office, and him the said Edward, Guardian and Custos of the said Rolls, records, phillaces, hooks, and writings, we do hereby make, constitute, and appoint, and also to do and execute the premises, and every of them, as fully, wholly, entirely, and amply as the said Nicholas Whyte, Master of the Rolls, at or before the time of his sequestration from the exercise of the said office, or any other Master of the Rolls before him in that roume,