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ECR 16 002

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ECR 16 002

Title

London and the suburbs: Letters patent granting wine

Level

Item

Date

21 February 1445

Content description

Letters patent granting to the Provost and College of Eton and their successors in perpetuity one cask of red Gascon wine yearly, to be received in the port of the city of London by the hands of the Chief butler.
(By the King and with the authority of parliament.)
(The capitals are missing from the first line of this document which is noted as a duplicate.)
The Great seal, green wax, on plaited blue and white silk threads. Good condition.
(This document has been tied to the previous by a strip of parchment round the silk threads.)
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