| Royal writ of 1328 (Westminster Abbey. Muniments. Coronation No.II). All images from The New Palaeographical Society 1910, Plate 197. |
| If you are still here, you are doing well. You might get truly brave and attempt a complete transcript. Go to the text pages and write it all down with a pen and paper. Don't be dismayed if you can't get it all. I don't think it is possible from this reproduction. If you get close, you will be ready to travel the length and breadth of England searching in archives for hitherto unrecorded privy seal documents that have got scattered all over the place. |
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