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| Note that in the last full line there is a sentence inserted above the line and indicated with an arrow. Very messy. Perhaps the abbot didn't give the stone back because he was insulted at the standard of communication. The photograph does not show the narrow strip attached to the document bearing the address As Abbe et couent de Westm. | |
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| Royal writ of 1328 (Westminster Abbey. Muniments. Coronation No.II). All images from The New Palaeographical Society 1910, Plate 197. | |
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