QUEEN ELIZABETH I -  LETTER PATENT - MARCH 1562

Elizabeth 1 Queen of England Westminster 22 March 1562 Letter portrait of Queen Elizabeth 1 executed in pen and ink within the initial E of a Royal Letters Patent Decree, depicting the Queen in flowing robes, bearing the insignia of State and seated against a stylized background beneath a canopy with a baldachin captioned ’Vivat Regina’, the document being a grant of the manor of Holderness, the manor of Crestingham, a messuage called Holland in the possession of the monastery of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. With appurtenances, to Robert Thorpe and Francis Boldero, written in Latin in a handsome Chancery hand, engrossed historiated majuscules and adorned with calligraphic heraldic beasts and emblems, endorsement Westminster 22 March 1562.