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are mandates, letters, and writs of a private nature, addressed, in the Sovereign’s name, to individuals and folded or closed and sealed on the outside with the Great Seal.
⁂ Patent Rolls are left open, with the seal hanging from the bottom.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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