shelde, cote armour, or otherwise, for ever, at his or their libertie
and pleasure, without impediment, let, or interruption of any parson or
parsons. In witnesse whereof we, the said hinges and hereauldes of
arms, have caused these letters to be made patentes, and set herevnto
our common seale of corporation, given at the office of arms in London,
the twelvethe of December, and in the tenthe yeare of the reigne of our
sovereign {429} ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England,
France and Ireland, defender of the faithe," &c.

H.T. ELLACOMBE.

Clyst St George, Nov. 4. 1850.

_Cradock_--I should like to know whether the MSS. of Randle Holme, of
Chester, 1670, which afterwards were penes Dr. Latham, are still
accessible? Nichols refers to them as his authority for Cradock's pedigree,
as laid down in his _Leicestershire_ (vol. iv. part ii. p. 807.).

H.T.E.

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