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Patents to Drogheda confirmed.
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LXIV. Also, at the prayer of Richard Jordan, mayor of the town of Drogheda, the aldermen, sheriffs and commons of the same: It is ordained, enacted and established by authority of the said Parliament, that all letters patent and every of them, made or granted as well by our sovereign lord the King that now is or by his progenitors or predecessors, or by any of them, to the mayor, sheriffs and commons of Drogheda, or to the burgesses of the bridge of Drogheda on the side of Uriel, and their successors, or to the mayor and bailiffs of the town of Drogheda on the side of Uriel, and to their successors, or to the mayor, bailiffs and burgesses of the town of Drogheda on the side of Uriel, and their successors, or to the burgesses of the town of Drogheda on the side of Uriel and Meath, and their successors, or to the seneschal and bailiffs of the town of Drogheda on the side of Meath, and their successors, or to the seneschal and burgesses of the town of Drogheda on the side of Meath, and their successors, or to the burgesses and commons of the town of Drogheda, and their successors, or to the mayor, sheriffs, aldermen and commons of the town of Drogheda, and their successors, or to the mayor of Drogheda and his successors, or to the sheriffs of Drogheda and their successors, or to the mayor, sheriffs and commons of the town of Drogheda and their successors, or by whatever other name they or any of them are called in the said letters patent, or in any of them, be ratified, approved and confirmed. And that by the same authority those things and every of them, and every parcel thereof, granted to the said mayor, aldermen, sheriffs and commons of the town of Drogheda who now are, and to their successors, they shall have anew, to them and their successors for ever, notwithstanding that they have not used, or have abused any thing in the said letters patent or any of them contained. Provided always that this act be not prejudicial to the Church of Armagh, or to the immunities thereof.
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