II. Copies of Three remarkable Petitions to King Henry the Sixth, with that King's Sign Manual, preserved among the Records in the Tower; with a Schedule annexed to one of them, containing an Account of the Robes provided for the Royal Colleges of our Lady of Eton, and of our Lady and St. Nicholas of Cambridge; communicated by Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Director

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Besecheth mekely your pove' Suito' William Ayscogh one of your justice of the comon benche, that where he late by your comaundement was charged to take upon hym the degree of Sergeaunt of your lawe to his grete expenses and costes. And or he had ben' fully two yere in that office at the barre he was called by your heghnesun to the benche and made Justice, by which makyng Justice all his Wynnings that he sholde have hade in the said office of Sergeant and alle the fees that he had in England weere and be cessed and expired fro hym to his grete empoysshyng for they weere the grete substance of his lyvelode: and also he hath suche infirmite in his eghen that he dredith hym gretely of faillyng and perysshyng of his sight.