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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22730	A commission vvith instructions and directions, granted by his Maiestie to the Master and Counsaile of the Court of Wards and Liueries for compounding for wards, ideots, and lunaticks, and giuen vnder his Highnesse great Seale of England the eleuenth day of December 1618.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Banbury, William Knollys, Earl of, 1547-1632.; England and Wales. Court of Wards and Liveries.	1618 (1618)	STC 9239; ESTC S100728	9,636	33

A COMMISSION WITH INSTRVCTIONS AND DIRECTIONS granted by his Maiestie to the Master and Counsaile of the Court of Wards and Liueries For compounding for Wards Ideots and Lunaticks And giuen vnder His Highnesse great Seale of England The eleuenth day of December 1618. LONDON Printed by BONHAM NORTON and IOHN BILL Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie M.DC.XVIII HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ¶ By the King IAMES by the grace of GOD King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To Our right trustie and right welbeloued Councellour WILLIAM Lord Knollys Viscount Wallingford Master of Our Court of Wards and Liueries And to Our trustie and well-beloued the Councell of the same Court And to the Master and Councell of the said Court for the time being Greeting WHEREAS Wee haue heretofore published seuerall Commissions with Instructions and Directions to you Our Master and Councell of Our Court of Wards and Liueries for compounding for Wards Ideots and Lunatiques now that time and experience haue produced the knowledge of sundry defects that otherwise could not easily haue been foreseene which are to bee supplied by explanation and addition to the same Our Instructions according to Our gracious purpose for the good of Our louing Subiects Our especiall care for the true answering of Our Reuenues And forsomuch as it doth appeare by common experience in the course which hath beene helde since the first erection of Our Court of Wards and Liueries That partly by the slackenesse of the Friends of the Wards vpon the decease of the Parents or Ancestours who haue forborne to offer timely Composition sometimes with opinion that no Tytle could be found for Vs and somtimes with purpose to suppresse the same partly by the suite of other men the Custodie of the bodies and lands of Our Wards haue been committed to such persons some for one respect some for another as notwithstanding the care and prouidence of you the Master and Councell of Our Court to bind them in great Bonds and Couenants for the well educating of the Children and preseruation of their Inheritance haue been carelesse of their education married some in meane places committed wastes and spoyles vpon their Lands and in the end haue exacted greater summes of money for the marriages of such Wards then they ought to haue done in reason and equity notwithstanding any their disbursements whatsoeuer for passing or procuring the same And whereas also Wee haue bene informed by you the Master of the saide Court that by reason of the great difficulties that haue bene found by the Court vpon sight of Offices and Surueyes only to set downe Compositions for Wardships and Leases of Wards Lands with such equalitie and moderation betweene Vs and Our Subiects as were iust and reasonable and that through want of due information in that behalfe much of the profit that might haue bene raised for Vs hath bene diuerted to diuers Sutors and Committees who by obscuring the trueth of the Wards estate and by misinforming of the Court therein haue reaped greater profite then was intended if you could by ordinary meanes haue come by the knowledge of their values so as both Wee haue receiued lesse then otherwise We should haue done and the Wards found little ease in many cases Wherefore for the preuenting of these and the like inconueniences and to the end that Our louing Subiects may stand assured that Wee desire nothing more then that their Children and their Lands that shall fall vnto Vs by reason of Wardships might after their decease bee committed to their neerest and trustiest friends or to such as they by Wil or otherwise commit the charge vnto vpon such valuable considerations as are iust and reasonable And to the intent that the Parents and Ancestours may depart in greater peace in hope of this Our gracious fauour and their friendes may see their Children brought vp in pietie and learning and may take such care as is fit for the preseruation of their inheritance if they wil seeke the same in time and by such meanes as are fitte and conuenient Wee haue thought good hereby to require you the Master and Councell of the said Court for the time beeing that in disposing and committing of the custodie of the Bodies and Lands of such Our Wards whose Ancestours are already deceased or shall die from and after the date of these presents and of such Ideots and Lunatiques and their Estates as shall fall vnto Vs from hencefoorth you shal strictly and carefully obserue these Our Directions following FIRST that no Direction for the finding of any Office bee giuen for Wardship of the Body and Lands of any Ward vntill the ende of one moneth next after the death of the Ancestor of the Ward but to the neerest and trustiest friends of the Ward or other persons nominated by the Ancestor in the Wards behalfe who may in the meane time become Suitors for the same among whom choice may be made of the best and fittest and if none of the Wards friends make petition by the end of the moneth then it shall be lawfull for any other to petition and to finde the Office for the said Wardship ALSO That no composition agreement or promise of any Wardship or Lease of Lands bee made vntill the Office bee found and then such of the Friends to haue preferment as tendered their Petitions within the moneth they yeelding a reasonable Composition and in default of them such others as were or shall be Suitors yeelding also a reasonable Composition ALSO You shall doe your best indeuours to informe your selues as perticularly as you may by Commission Suruey or otherwise of the truth of the Wards Estates aswell of his Inheritance as of his Goods and Chattels and of the Estate of the deceased Ancestor and of all other due circumstances considerable to the ende the Compositions may bee such as may stand both with Our reasonable profit and with the abilitie of the heires estate THAT all Petitions for Wardships Ideots and Lunatiques shal be first deliuered to the Clerke of the Court by the Suitor himselfe and the Clerke of the Court is hereby directed to make entry of the same Petitions without any Fee the very day of the deliuery of the same and returne them to the Suitor who shall afterward present the same Petition openly at the Councell Table of the Court of Wards there to be ordered by the Officers at their next sitting THAT euery such Petition doe expresse the seuerall Counties wherein the Ancestors died seised of Lands THAT all Petitioners that haue warrant to finde an Office and appointed to attend at a certaine day if after they finde no Office nor doe not attend before the Officers for their Composition at such time as was appointed then they shall loose the benefit of their Petition and their bond shal be put in Processe sauing they shall be admitted to make their reasonable excuse in any of the