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Satirical verse in Latin rhymed couplets beginning: `Curia de Ed. Rege, Dicta sine lege', being the heading for the rolls of the so-called Lawless Court of Kingshill in Rocheford, co. Essex. In the current hand of Arthur Gregory with fair signature of Arthur Gregory on verso. Dated Wednesday before the day after Michaelmas, 23 Elizabeth.

Related material

The whole verse is quoted in Blount's Ancient Tenures (1815 edition), p.506.