May it please your Grace

Your Grace having ordered Mr Brodie to leave at your office a memorandum of the nature & value of the office of Escheator of North Carolina, I presume to inform your Grace that the Escheator is an officer of the Crown who upon a writt of Escheat directed to him is to summon a Jury, and make return into the Court of Exchequer, that they have found such Lands to have escheated to ye King; for which he receives a fee of ten shillings, so that the yearly income of that office cannot amount to forty pounds per annum which is humbly submitted to Your Grace by,