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requisite, to administer an oath or oaths to any person or persons whatsoever to be examined before you, or any one or more of you, touching or concerning the pre¬ mises ; and we do also give and grant to you, or any one or more of you, full power and authority to cause all and singular the officers belonging to the said Corporations to bring and produce upon oath before you, or any one or more of you, all and singular charters, rolls, records, orders, deeds, books, papers, or other writings be¬ longing to the said Corporations, or to any of the said officers of the Corporations, as such officers, touching or concerning the premises.
And our further will and pleasure is, that you, or any three or more of you, upon due examination of the premises, do and shall, within the space of six calendar months after the date of this our Commission, or sooner if the same can reasonably be, certify unto us, on parchment, under your hands and seals respectively, what you shall find, touching or concerning the premises, upon such inquiry, as aforesaid; and we further will and command, and by these presents ordain, that this our Com¬ mission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, our Commissioners, or any one or more of you, shall and may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment; and we do hereby direct and appoint that you, or any one or more of you, may have liberty to certify your several pro¬ ceedings from time to time to us, as the same shall be respectively completed and" perfected; and we hereby command all and singular our justices of the peace, sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs, constables, officers, ministers, and all other our loving subjects whatsoever, as well within liberties as without, that they he assistant to you and each of you in the execution of these presents ; and for your assistance in the due execution of this our Commission we have made choice of our trusty and well-beloved Thomas Reilly, Esq.,
to be Secretary and Solicitor to this our Commission, and to attend you, whose service and assistance we require you to use' from time to time as occasion shall require.
IN WITNESS whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent.
WITNESS ourself at Westminster, the 20th day of July, in the fourth year of our reign, by writ of Privy Seal.
BATHURST.
