labour so to order this particular, as it may be a service acceptable to his Majesty and beneficial to his subjects. And so we rest your very assured loving friends, Wentworth. From his Majesty's Castle of Dublin, 24th March, 1635.—R.Corke, R. Dillon, Wm. Caulfield, Ad. Loftus, Js. Borlase, Phil. Mainwaring, George Radcliffe."—Earl of Stafford's Letters, Vol. I. p. ult. In consequence hereof buildings were erected and finished in 1639, for the aforesaid purposes. The court of wards, &c., are now fallen and in ruins; the Rolls office still subsists (1760), but in a crazy condition, and supported by props, though much better than for many years past, being repaired at a great expense by Mr. Rigby, Master of the Rolls.
Sir John Temple, Knt.,—Wandesforde deceased,—Privy Seal, Westminster, 31 Jan.—Patent, Dublin, 20 Feb. 1640.—Life.—Fee, £l92 4s. 5¼d.—g15 Car. I 6a pars d. R. 10.
Sir Maurice Eustace, Knt., Sergeant at Law, and Speaker of the House of Commons,—in reversion after Sir John Temple,—Privy Seal, Oxford, 22 June, 1644. Keeper or Master of the Rolls, and clerk or master of the rolls, books, writs, and records, as fully as Sir John held the same, except what gave power of judicature, which was to be excepted out of his patent.—Car. I. 24. d. R. 22.
Sir John Temple,—license to repair to England for one whole year or more,—Richard Cromwell, patent, April, 1659.—Interregnum Rolls, 8}}a pars m. 18. f.
