The Popish Royal Favorite, Part 2
Discharges of Priests and Iesuites under the King, Councels, and Secretary Windebanks hands.
AS I have given you a brief Discovery of his Majesties extraordinary Letters of Grace and Protection to Popish Recusants for stay of all legall proceedings against them hitherto, so I shall in the next place present you a summary List of His own, His Councels & Secretary Windebanks (most likely by His Royall direction) favours to, and discharges of Seminary Priests and Iesuites from all legall prosecutions, and imprisonments, in or near London onelyonly, all extant on record in the severall Prison Bookes to which they were committed, or in the Kings Bench, most of the Originalls of them being now in the Recorder of Londons hands, appointed long since to draw up Secretary Windebanks charge.
I shall begin with His Majesties discharges under his own Signe-manuall.