Title: Legal document
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.
People: Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603)