The document before us is an Exemplification, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal 41 Ed. III., of the Record of the case, as investigated and decided by Parliament. It was granted on the petition of William de
Septvans, to whose recovered estate it had become an indispensable title-deed; for its production would at all times be legal and conclusive evidence against the representatives of those who had conspired to obtain possession of the minor's property.
   The instrument is written partly in Latin, and partly in Norman-French; we have, however, rendered it into English, in the belief that in that form it will be more acceptable to some of our readers than it would have been if copied verbatim from the original language: it is as follows:—

                                         '' Letters Patent,
"Edward, by the grace of God . . . of England, Lord of Ireland and Aquitaine, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting.
   "We have inspected a record and process had before our Lord the King, in his Parliament at Westminster, held on Monday, on the morrow of the Invention of the Holy Cross, in the fortieth year of his reign, in these words.
   " Our Lord the King issued his writ in these words :—
   "' Edward, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland and Aquitaine, to his beloved and faithful John de Cobham, of  Kent, Thomas de Lodelowe, and William Waure, greeting. 
   "Whereas, we have been given to understand that "William, son and heir of "William de Septvans, Knight, deceased, who held of us, as of our Crown, in capite, and whose lands and tenements, with  their appurtenances, in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Essex, by  reason of the minority of the foresaid heir, were taken into our  hands, has insufficiently proved his age before our escheator in the  said county of Kent, who was incorrectly informed thereof, at the  procurance, invention, and information of certain persons, suggesting that the said  "William, son of William, was of full age: and that  we were deceived in the said proof, because the foresaid heir is still  within age, and will be so for a considerable time: and that, owing to  our being deceived, the lands and tenements aforesaid, with their