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GREAT LAW OFFICERS IN IRELAND.

Orders for Signet Letters to be enrolled before any orders be given thereupon; Maur. Eustace, Canc., Orrery, Mountrath.—Whereas it no less imports us than the interest of the parties concerned in any of his Majesty's Letters under the Royal Signet, directed unto and received by us, that the said Letters be with all care and safety preserved, they being our warrant, and the parties' security, for what, in obedience to his Majesty's commands, is ordered and done thereupon; we do therefore hereby order, that as his Majesty's Signet Letters shall immediately after they be entered with our Secretaries, be enrolled in his Majesty's High Court of Chancery, before any orders be given thereon, except when we shall find cause for the secresy thereof expressly to direct otherwise. Whereof all parties concerned are to take notice and act accordingly.—Given at Dublin, 3 December, 1661.—13 Car. II 1a pars f. R. 36.

The like order was made by James, Duke of Ormond, L. L., 22 August, 1662,—2a pars f. R. 25; and a like order by John, Lord Berkely, L. L., 8 June, 1670.—2a pars f. R. 6.

William Temple, (after Bart.,) son and heir of said Sir John Temple,—in reversion after the deaths or surrenders of his father and Sir Maurice Eustace,—Privy Seal, Whitehall, 7 April, 1664,—patent, Dublin, 10 May, 1664,—with the same fee of £192. 4s. 5¼d., being the accustomed fee due to the Master and Keeper of the Rolls by the establishment, by the fees