TO all People to whom this present Writing shall come, I Thomas Downs of the City of Dublin Static▪ ne'er, send greeting in our Lord God everlasting: Whereas the Kings most excellent Majesty by his Highness' Letters Patents under the great Seal of this Kingdom hath granted to Felix Kyngston and me the said Thomas Downs (Assignees for and on the behalf of the Company of Stationers of London) the Office of Printer general within this his Majesty's Realm of Ireland, with full power to Imprint, Bind and sell all Books and other things incident to the said Office: prohibiting all others to imprint, bynde, sell or put 〈◊〉 sale any of the premises, upon pain of forfeiture of ten shillings Irish for every such book or thing, And upon pain of forfeiture and confiscation of the said Books and other things, to them the said Patentees and their assigns, to their proper use and uses. And where also the Lord deputy and Council of this Kingdom, by their Proclamation bearing date the fifteenth day of july 1620. did signify and declare the express tenor of the said Letters Patt. that all his Majesty's subjects and others might take notice thereof, Requiring all his Majesty's Officers and loving subjects to be aiding and assisting to the said Patentees, their Agents, servants and deputies therein, as by the said Letters Patents and Proclamation at large appeareth. Now Know ye, That I the said Thomas Downs (on the behalf & to the use of the said Company) do by these presents authorize, substitute and appoint _____ within this Kingdom, my true and lawful deputy ●●d Attorney, to make search for, take and seize into his hands such books and ●●●er things of that nature so brought into this Realm, and forfeited and confiscated by force of the said Letters Patt. or Proclamation or either of them: And also to cause the said delinquents in that behalf to be committed to prison there to remain until they and every of them shall have paid the said Fine of ten shillings Irish, for every such Book and other thing so brought in and forfeited as aforesaid, And all other things to do and execute (in the behalf of the said Company) as I myself might being present. Which power and authority concerning the premises I the said Thomas Downs do ratify ●hese presents to the foresaid _____ Sealed with my seal the _____ day of _____ Anno Dom.  
Sealed and delivered in the presence of _____