Warrant from Elizabeth I, Queen of England, Westminster, to John Fortescue, Master of the Wardrobe [manuscript], 1591/2 January 29.

1 p.

Manuscript on vellum.

To deliver a royal coat-of-arms to Thomas Knight, Rouge Croix pursuivant. Signed and sealed by the Queen.

An Elizabethan sixpenny piece attached to the seal by a thread through a hole in the center which obliterates one numeral in its date, "15-2."

Removed from a display volume bound in tree calf by Lloyd, 19th century, June 8, 1967.

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Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 35)

Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 49.2

Great Britain -- England.

V.b.55

cs49