316 APPENDIX TO REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE, & c. quacunq, in contra? inde , pviso semp qd pfat dnus maior vicecomit communitat et civ civitat nre Dublin pdict irrotulabunt seu irrotula? causabant has Iras nras patentes in alta cuf nra cauc diet regni nri Hitfnie infra sex menses < px post dat har Irar nrar patentih. Eo quod expressa mentio, & c. aliqu statuto, & c. In cujus rei testimoniu has iras iiras fier fecim pa- tentes teste pfat Jacobo Due Ormond loc tent nro genal gub° natof nro dicti regni nri Hibnie apud Dublin vicesimo prirao die Novembris anno regni nri decimo octavo, irrotulat. R. Wogan, Deputy Keeper of the Rolls. Appendix N° 28. GRANT unto the Mayor, Sheriffs, Commons and Citizens of the City of Dublin. CHARLES the Second by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, 8tc. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: WHEREAS the mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens of our city of Dublin in our kingdom of Ireland, have humbly petitioned us, thereby setting forth, that several of our subjects in that our city and kingdom being charitably affected towards such as through age, sickness, or other accidents, are reduced to poverty and disabled to gaine their living by their own labour: And piously considering also the great benefit of the good education and instruction of youth, have proposed the erection, building and establishing of an hospital and free school within the liberties of our said city of Dublin, and have showed great willingness to contribute to so good a work, which they hope to accomplish in case they may, by our royal authority, be enabled and capacitated to purchase lands, tenements and hereditaments for the erecting and maintaining of such an hospital and free school, and to make good, wholesome and necessary laws for the rule and government thereof: Know ye, therefore, that We, of our princely dis- position for the furtherance and accomplishment of so good and charitable a work, of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, by and with the advice and consent of our right trusty and right well beloved counsellor, John Lord Berkeley, our lieutenant general and general governor of our said realm of Ireland, and according to the tenor and effect of our betters, bearing date at our court at Whitehall, the twenty- fourth day of October in the three- and- twentieth year of our reign, and now inrolled in the rolls of our high court of Chancery in our said realm of Ireland, have given, granted, released and confirmed, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do give, giant, release and confirm unto the said mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens of our city of Dublin, and their successors for ever, all that piece or parcel of ground on Oxmon- town Green, near our said city of Dublin, on which the intended hospital and free school is already began to be built, and all and singular the edifices and buildings thereon, and all yards, backsides, lands, tenements, ways, waters, watercourses, easements, liberties, privileges, profits, commodities, advantages, appur- tenances and hereditaments whatsoever to the same belonging or appertaining, of what quantity, quality, nature, kind, or sorte soever they be, and by whatsoever name or names the same arc called or known, or reputed, accepted, or taken, together with their and every of their rights, members and appurtenances whatsoever, and also the reversion and reversions, re- mainder and remainders of all and singular the premises, and every part and parcel thereof; and also all the estate, right, title, interest, claim, property, challenge, and demand what- soever, which we, our heirs or successors have, or at any time hereafter may, can, might, or ought to have, of, in, or unto the premises, or unto any part or parcel thereof; To have and to hold all and singular the premises before in and by these presents given, granted, released and confirmed, or herein or hereby meant, mentioned or intended to be given, granted, released and confirmed, and every part, parcel and member thereof, together with their and every of their rights, members and appurtenances whatsoever unto them the said mayor, she- riffs and citizens of our city of Dublin, and their successors for ever, to be held and enjoyed by the said mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens of our said city of Dublin, and their succes- sors for ever, to the only use, ends, intents and purposes hereafter in these presents mentioned and expressed, that is to say, upon the special trust and confidence, and to the end, intent, and purpose that the said piece of ground on Oxmon- town Green aforesaid hereby granted, or meant, mentioned and intended to be granted, and the buildings thereon erected and to be erected, shall for evermore hereafter be, remain and continue a mansion house and place of abode for the sustentation and relief of poor children, aged and impotent people, to be holden of us, our heirs and successors, as of our castle of Dublin, in free and common soc- cage, without any rent or other payment to be rendered or paid unto us, our heirs and suc- cessors for the same: And further, of our more abundant grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, and princely disposition, for the furtherance and accomplishment of so good and charitable- a worke, by and with the advice and consent aforesaid, and in pursuance of our said letters, We have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, We do give and grant unto the said mayor, sheriff's, commons and citizens of our said city of Dublin, and their successors for ever, full power and authority at their wills and plea- sures, from time to time, and at all times, to place therein such master or masters of the said hospital, and such numbers of poor people and children, and such officers or ministers of the said hospital and free school, as likewise an able, learned, pious and orthodox minister, to be approved of from time to time by the Archbishop of Dublin for the time being, the said minister