A commission vvith instructions and directions, granted by his Maiestie to the Master and Counsaile of the Court of Wards and Liueries for compounding for wards, ideots, and lunaticks, and giuen vnder his Highnesse great Seale of England the eleuenth day of December 1618 (Printed by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, 1618)
A considerably revised version of the commission issued 23 Feb. 1618. - Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. - STC (2nd ed.), 9239. - The Master and Counsaile of the Court of Wards and Liveries = William Knollys, Earl of Banbury. - The first leaf contains signature-mark A in part of a woodcut frame. - The text is found in two impositions; sheets may be mixed