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Contributors: Eccles, Mary Hyde, former owner; Ellis, Jacob, first party; Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)
Published: 15uu
Language: lat
Other titles: Queen Elizabeth document and seal.
Description: The document was written during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), and names Jacobus Ellys Junior, Jacobus Ellys Senior, and Ed'o Anderson, "milite et sociis," "apud Westm." Edmund Anderson was appointed chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1582. It is described in Eccles as bearing a forged signature of Queen Elizabeth, but is apparently an authentic unsigned document which concludes with Elizabeth's name in a scribal hand.
Notes: Manuscript document in unknown hand, not signed.

With 1 seal (10 cm.) of brown wax, pendant on a tag: seal of the Court of Common Pleas.

In a red morocco tray case.

Mary Hyde Eccles : A Miscellany of Her Essays and Addresses, 55-56.

MS Hyde 63. Houghton Library, Harvard University.