To the right Honorable the
Lord Chancellor
Humblie complaining sheweth
Sir Robert Browne vicar of Kilmacowe in the County of
Kilkenny wheare your petitioer’s father Patrick Browne of
Old Laghlin in the Countie of Katherlagh yeoman was seised
in his demesne as of fee by good title of five messuadges
three gardens the moitie or half end [?] of the field
Brownes meadow and 54 acres of arable land scituated and
being in the towne of Old Laghlin aforsaid and being so of
the said premises seised conveyed and made over all and
singular the premises with all the evidences and charters
concerning them to your supplicant and his heirs So it is
that the evidences and charters concering the premises being
casually come to the hands of one Thade Dowling Chancellor
of Old Laghlin aforesaid the said Thade wrongfully detaineth
the said evidences and charters from your supplicant and
utterlie refuseth to deliver them to your suplicant albeit
he hereto hath bene often required by your suplicant The
premises considered and forasmuch as your supplicant knoweth
not the certaintie of the said charters and evidences
whereby he might sue for them by course of comon lawe It may
please your honourable lordship to grant his highnes writ of
subpena to be directed to the said Thade Dulling comanding
him uppon a certaine paine to appeare before your Lordship
to answer the pleading And he shall praie &c.
John Bryer of [Campell]
