Tudor legal advice and procedure.- Autograph Letter by an unidentified sender, 1p. with conjugate blank, 26th of January, [c. 1540], in a Tudor secretary hand, relating to an ongoing contentious legal matter involving a Tudor Sheriff, in which the writer addresses procedural issues arising out of applications for the common law writs of "sup[er]sed[e]as and dedimus potestate[m]" and the involvement of a Tudor Sheriff in the matter "my advyse shal be thate ye . . . save the Shyrryff harmles" while expressing confidence about the disposition of the matter "uppon the openyng of the matter it shal appear playnly that [it is] suyd for vexacion", folds, slightly stained in margin, Hand & Flower watermark, 290 x207mm.
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