Excerpt from A Jodrell Deed and the Seals of the Black Prince Paper was not used to any great extent for letters as early as this. By far the larger number of the princefs letters from Gascony were on parchment, all those between 1355 and 1357 for example. Paper was, however, used more extensively in Gascony than in England.3 A privy seal letter of the Black Prince's, written after 1362, was on paper,4 and so was a signet letter of about the same time neither is dated, but both were written in Gascony. Privy and secret ...
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Excerpt from A Jodrell Deed and the Seals of the Black Prince Paper was not used to any great extent for letters as early as this. By far the larger number of the princefs letters from Gascony were on parchment, all those between 1355 and 1357 for example. Paper was, however, used more extensively in Gascony than in England.3 A privy seal letter of the Black Prince's, written after 1362, was on paper,4 and so was a signet letter of about the same time neither is dated, but both were written in Gascony. Privy and secret seal letters in England were also sometimes on paper.6 None of these is, however, as early as 1355, and in this respect the Jodrell pass is unique. Most of the letters issued by the king at this time were still on parchment, although there are exceptions. For example, in a bundle of documents subsidiary to the privy wardrobe accounts, ranging from 1353 to 1361, there is one solitary paper warrant.7 This may probably be dated 1359. Paper was more often used for registers than for letters the earliest of the three surviving registers of the Black Prince's letters is on paper. This was drawn up for the years 1346 and 1347 while the later registers on parchment cover the years 1351 to 1364 8 In generally using parchment, but occasionally using paper, the wr1t1ng departments of the Black Prince were but following the custom of the king's various secretariats. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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