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1920 SIR MAURICE EUSTACE 255 IV Del. Muniment Book, lib. i, p. 371. 16 December 1660 Warrant of King Charles II Charles R Right trustie & Right entirely beloved Cousins & Counoellers we greet you well Whereas our trustie & Right well beloved Sir Maurice Eustace Kt. our Chancellor of ye Kingdome of Ireland hath given signall proof of his faithfullnesse & loyalty to our late Roy all Father & us in the late time of tryall by declining all civill imployment under the late usurped power by suffering imprisonment for above seaven yeares at our City of Chester in our Realm of England whither he was sent prisoner from thence rather than comply with their tyranny & by patiently enduring the burning of his house & the spoyling of him & all his goods & personall estate to a very great valine all which the said Sir Maurice hath suffered & endured for his faithfulness to our late Royall Father & to us We therefore haveing a sence thereof & being very willing & desirous to sett upon him a marke of our favour & high esteem wee have of him which may be con- veyed to posterity whereby they haveing a gratefull sence thereof may tread the same steps of duty & loyalty doe by these our letters will & require you forthwith upon receipt hereof to cause effectuall letters patents to bee made under the great scale there unto the said Sir Maurice conteining a grant of creation from us & our heires & successors to the said Sir Maurice Eustace to be Baron Eustace of Cr'y Eustace in our county of Kildare in Ireland to have & to hold the said name title state honors dignity of Baron Eustace of Cr'y Eustace & all rights priviledges preeminences & imunityes to the title of Baron of right belonging or pertaining to him the said Sir Maurice Eustace & the heires male of his body to be begotten & for want of such heires to such other of his name whom he shall either by his last will & testament or by other writeing duely executed in his lifetime in the presence of three witnesses nominate & appoint to succeed him in his estate & the heires males of his body to be begotten given at our Court of Whitehall the 16th day of December 1660 in the twelf yeare of our Reigne by His Majesties Command Edw. Nicholas. V Dels. 8/33, pp. 1389-93. 1 October 1662 John Keating to Maurice Eustace Worthy Cozen. I receaved yours of the 20th, of 7^^ wherein you seeme much disatisfied at what was intended really for your satisfaction, but I finde the fate of those who concerne themselves in other mens affaires, though I must tell you truly I never looked vppon yours to bee so, nor did I ever without ground give you the least assurance of what hath been and still may not without pregnant reason bee expected by you, but it is I hope to you no new thing that your vnckle is of one mind to day and of another to morrow. I have beene since the receipt of yours earnest with him for mony for you and his answer to me was that hee had sent your brother and you 100' a fortnight since which made vpp 400 'i since your re veil, the truth i