Letters patent of Queen Elizabeth appointing Ralph Bowes chief Master of ‘our game pastymes and sportes, that is to saie of all and euery our Beares Bulles and Mastiff Dogges,’ in ‘as large and ample manner and forme as Cuthbert Vaughan or Sir Richard Longe, knt., deceased’, dated 2 June, anno 15 [i.e., 1573]. The name of Ralph Bowes has been erased and that of ‘Jhon Dorinton’ (i.e., Dorrington) inserted. This letters patent appears in a collection formed by J. P. Collier.

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