The second petition of Charles Dormer, second Earl of Carnarvon, 12 June 1660
<E[arl of] Carnarvon.>
To ye Kings most Excell[en]t Ma[jes]tie.
The humble Petic[i]on of yo[u]r Ma[jes]ties most loyall Subject and Servant Charles Earle of Carnarvan.
Humbly sheweth.
That whereas Phillip late Earle of Pembrooke upon the marriage of his Daughter (your Pet[itione]rs Mother) to your pet[itione]rs Father did surrender the Office of Steward and Leiv[tenan]t of the Mannor of Woodstock and the Keepershipp of the parke there to your Ma[jes]ties royall Father of blessed memorie. And your royall Father at the humble request of the said Earle of Pembrook was graciously pleased to grant the said Office to your Pet[itione]rs Father for his life, Within few yeares after which Surrender and grant your pet[itione]rs father lost his life in the Service of your Ma[jes]ties royall Father, which life in all probabillity might have long continued. And whereas your Ma[jes]tie hath beene gratiously pleased to shew severall Examples of your bounty and favour to such whose fathers dyed in your royall fathers Service by confirming their fathers places upon them, And whereas your Ma[jes]ties royall father did in the presence and hearing of diverse credible persons, yet living and ready to attest the same) gratiously expresse his intenc[i]ons of conferring the said Office upon your pet[itione]r.
Your Pet[itione]r doth most humbly beseech yo[u]r Ma[jes]tie to conferr the said Office upon your pet[itione]r as a Testimony of your Ma[jes]ties gracious acceptance of your pet[itione]rs Fathers Service, and as a marke of your Ma[jes]ties royall favour and bounty to your pet[itione]r.
And yo[u]r Pet[itione]r shall pray &c.
At the Court at Whitehall this 12th of June 1660.
His Ma[jes]ty is very sensible of the great merit and fidelity of the Petitioners Father and being desirous to understand the Right w[hi]ch the Petitioner hath to the Office of Master and keeper of his Ma[jes]tys Hawkes, Is graciously pleased to referre ye considerac[i]on of this Petition to Mr Attorney Generall, who is to examine, and see the Grants and title & whereby the Petitioner claimeth the said Office, and to certify his Opinion thereof to his Ma[jes]ty whereupon his Ma[jes]ty will declare his further pleasure.
Edw[ard] Nicholas