'To the right honorable the Lords and others of his ma’ts most honorable privie councell the humble petition of John Lepton'. As patentee for the sole making of all bills of complaint and processe called King's letters before the Lord president and council of the North, he prays that his patent 'may not be suppressed, but that he may be re-established and continued in the said office with all the benefits he had enjoyed before the petition of the attornies in the court at York which was presented in Februarie 1621'.