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Ratification to Sir John Seaton

Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the estates of this present parliament, has ratified and approved and, by this legislation, ratifies and approves the letter of gift granted by his majesty under his highness's privy seal, of the date the [...] day of [...] 1628, to his highness's beloved and trusty servant Sir John Seaton, knight, during his lifetime, of all and whole a yearly pension of £200 sterling money to be uplifted by him out of the readiest of his highness's rents and casualties of this kingdom from his majesty's treasurers and receivers; together with another letter of gift passed under the privy seal and granted by his majesty of the date 12 November 1641 in favour of the said Sir John Seaton, ratifying and approving the gift of pension above-written and of new giving and granting to the said Sir John during his said lifetime the said yearly pension of £200 sterling to be uplifted out of his majesty's rents and casualties as said is yearly at the feasts of Candlemas [2 February] and Lammas [1 August] by equal portions, the first term's payment thereof beginning at Candlemas next, as the said two letters of gift more fully purport, in all and sundry the heads, articles and clauses of the same letters of gift respectively; declaring hereby that this present ratification is and shall be as valid and sufficient to the said Sir John for receiving and uplifting the said pension during his said lifetime as if the said gifts were herein at length word for word mentioned and contained, notwithstanding the same are not engrossed and inserted herein, regarding which, and all faults and imperfections of the said gifts or that in any way may be objected against the same, his majesty, for his highness and his successors, has dispensed and, by this ratification, with advice and consent of the said estates of parliament, dispenses for now and ever.