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Stratford-upon-Avon: Guild of the Holy Cross: Letters of Indulgence

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Thirty days indulgence granted by Thomas [Cobham], Bishop of Worcester to all those of his diocese who shall contribute to the construction or repair of the bell tower (campanilis) of the Church of Stretford Dated at Hertlebury on the 4th of the Nones of March, A.D. 1325 Seal of green wax, a fragment only. Fisher's reproduction shows it to have been a pointed oval, with the figure of the bishop in base praying to St. Gregory ?

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Reproduced in Fisher's Antiquities, pl. IX, no.6.