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I R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT 
JAMES, By the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith etc. To all and singular Archbishops, Bishops, Archocacons, Deans and their Officials, Parsons, Vicars, Curates, and all Spiritual persons: And to all justices of Peace, majors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables, Churchwardens, and Headberowes: And to all Officers of Cities, Borroughes, Towns Corporate: And to all other our Officers Ministers and Subjects whatsoever they be, as well within Liberties as without, to whom these presents shall come greeting. Whereas we have been very credibly certified, by certificate under the hands of our trusty and well-beloved subjects, Sir Francis Darcie knight, Sir Thomas Fowler knight, Sir Lewis Lewknor knight, Sir William Slingsby knight, Sir Baptist Hickes knight, Nicholas Collyn and Thomas Saunderson esquires, justices of the Peace within our County of Middlesex: That our loving Subject, john Butler of Heason, in our said County Brewer, having heretofore been a man of worth and estimation, is now fallen into great want and poverty, by reason of a sudden and most lamentable accident by fire, happening upon Monday, being the sixteenth day of May, last passed before the date hereof, about ten of the clock in the night beginning first in the Brewhouse and in short time increased so fast and grew so vehement, that it could not be quenched, until it had quite burnt & consumed the said Brewhouse, together with his ●welling house, Barn, Stables, and other outhouses, and goods and Chattels therein, amounting to the value of a thousand pounds at the least, to the utter undoing of him, his poor wife and childs, who having heretofore lived in wealth and plenty, are now like to perish for want of things necessary, unless, the Charitable benevolence, of our loving and well disposed subjects, be effectually extended towards them in this their great want and misery.  
KNOW yae therefore, that We (tendering the lamentable estate of our said poor Subject) of our especial grace and Princely compassion have given and granted, and by these our Letters Patents do give and grant unto our said poor subject john Butler, and to his Deputy or Deputies, the Bearer or Bearers hereof, full power, licence, and authority, to ask, gather, receive and take the alms and charitable benevolence of all our loving Subjects whatsoever, inhabiting within our Counties of Middlesex, Buckingham, Northampton, Leicestor and Warwick, with our City of Coventry, And all other Cities, Towns Corporate, Privileged places. Parishes, Villages, and other places whatsoever, within our said Counties and not else where, as well for and towards the new building of his said house, as for and towards the relief and maintenance of him, his poor Wife and Children.  
WHEREFORE We will and command you and every of you, that at such times as the said john Butler, his Deputy or Deputies, the Bearer or Bearers hereof, shall come and repair to any your Churches, Chapels, or other places to ask and receive the gratuites and charitable benevolence of our said Subjects: quietly to permit and suffer him or them so to do, without any your lets or contradictions. And you the said Parsons, Vicars and Curates, for the better stirring up of a charitable devotion, deliberately to publish and declare the tenor of these our Letters Patents unto our said subjects exhorting and persuading them to extend their liberal contributions in so good and charitable a deed: And you the Churchwardens of every Parish where such collection shall be made as aforesaid, to collect and gather the charitable devotion and benevolence of our said Subjects, and the same so gathered, to deliver it to our said subject john Butler, his Deputy or Deputies the bearer or bearers hereof, when as thereunto you shall be required: Any Statute, Law, Ordinance, or provision heretofore made to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
IN witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents, for the space of one whole year next after the Date hereof to endure. Witness ourself at Westminster the fifteenth day of june, in the fourteenth year of our Reign of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the nine and fortieth.  
Steward.  
God save the King.   

At London Printed by T.P.