The  duty  of  the  clerk  of  the  letters  patent  is  to  write  and  dispatch
all  grants,  confirmations,  charters,  and  letters  patent  under  the
Great  Seal,  sealed  with  green  wax,  commonly  called  perpetuities
(except  letters  patent  for  creation  of  peers  and  baronets) ;  also
all  grants,  confirmations,  charters,  and  letters  patent  of,  for,  or
concerning  offices,  pensions,  or  annuities  for  lives  or  years  (except
letters  patent  for  or  concerning  the  offices  of  the  Justices  of  either
Bench,  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer,  or  King's  Counsel) ;  also
all  grants,  licences,  charters  and  letters  patent,  called  grants  of
rewards  or  special  licences ;  also  all  licences,  tolerations,  grants,
charters,  and  letters  patent  for  making  or  granting  any  matter  or
thing  done  or  to  be  done  against  the  form  of  any  statute,  ordi-
nance, proclamation,  or  provision  (except  licences  for  alienating
lands  to  be  held  of  the  sovereign  in  capite,  and  all  confirmations,
licences,  and  dispensations,  the  writing  whereof  is  granted  to
the  clerk  of  the  dispensations  and  faculties) ;  also  all  pardons
(except  pardons  for  treason,  murder,  homicide,  felony,  death  se
defendendo  or  chance  medley,  and  for  outlawries  or  alienations
without  licence,  and  except  general  pardons  by  authority  of  Par-
liament, at  coronations,  or  of  common   grace)  ;  also  all  Royal


24  CHANCERY.
CLERK  OF  THE  LETTERS  TATEl^T- contitiued.
