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ECR 39 165

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ECR 39 165

Title

Royal Patents: Inspeximus of archiepiscopal letters of dispensation

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Item

Date

25 April 1577

Content description

Inspeximus and confirmation by queen Elizabeth of archiepiscopal letters of dispensation. Given at Westminster.

The Great Seal, natural coloured wax, on doubled tag, slightly chipped away at the top.

Attached is the dispensation by Edmund, archbishop of Canterbury, to the Provost and College to eat flesh on Thursday, though it has recently been prohibited; for reasons of its expense and of the difficulty of obtaining it and of health, "cujus precipua cura debet esse literatis hominibus"

Seal of faculties, red wax, on red cord, fragmentary
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