Whereas His Majesty, under his royal signet, and sign manual, bearing date at his court at Whitehall, the sixth day of September 1672, hath signified unto us the lord lieutenant and Council, that His Majestie by letters patents, under his great seal of England, bearing date the eighth day of May, in the thirteenth year of his reign, hav[e] nominated, constituted and ordained his trusty and well-beloved John Ogleby Esq., master of the revels and masques in this kingdom, and by his said letters patents impowered the said John Ogleby, or his lawful deputy or deputies, to ereu [sic] and keep an office, to be known and called by the name of the Revells Office ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex.

Abstract

Title from first 7 lines of text. Statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "Given at the Council-chamber in Dublin, the seventh day of February 1672 [1673]. And in the five and twentieth year of His Majesties reign." Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries Library, London.