Wednesday 13 April 2016

Bath first handstamp - the contents of the entire

In the previous post I showed an early example of Bath's first handstamp, written before the Treaties of Union of Scotland and England.

The contents of the entire relates directly to these Treaties.  Here is an image of the contents ...

... and here is a transcription.  It appears that the entire was sent by Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath who was one of the "Treaters" from Scotland.  He was the only one who did not sign the agreement and in the entire it says that he had just left London to escape having to sign it.

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