APPLICATION OF A. PAINTER IN BEHALF OF HIS FATHER (Abst.).
(_Brit. Mus. Lansd. MS._ 67, f. 47.)
April 6. 1591. He has many times besought his honour to accept of his
serviceable endeavours with regard to his duty concerning the indirect
government of the office of ordnance, the entries into the books &c. and
as he knows that many irregularities have been committed for which he
fears he and his aged father may be blamed he has thought it his duty to
crave access to his Honour as well to advertise what has been heretofore
done as to declare the manner how this office is managed, beseeching his
honour, in regard his aged father is clerk of that office, whose duty it
is to register all things, not to sign any proportion books of debt or
monthe’s books but by the delivery of the said clerk or his deputy.