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The table’s front edge is rubbed pale before the clerk; a lower-right floor slab has one chipped corner. The clerk’s two gloved hands close over the upper die’s rim, pressing it flush against the wax. The wax rests completely on the lower die; the lower die nests inside its oak cradle, and the cradle sits flat on the table. The silk cords pass through the vellum’s folded lower edge and enter the wax pendant. The vellum lies across the tabletop with its sealed edge adjacent to the matrix cradle. Both petitioners’ shoe soles meet separate flagstones; each visible hand closes around his own felt hat. The wax pendant and each matrix are about 15 cm across, comparable to a small pewter eating plate; the table is 78 cm high. It is 1600: The clerk wears a dark wool doublet, plain linen collar, fitted hose, and leather gloves; the merchants wear wool doublets, short cloaks, linen ruffs, hose, and felt hats.; Vellum, resin-beeswax, red-and-white silk cord, silver matrices, oak furniture, limestone flags, wool, linen, felt, and leather.; Tudor Chancery authentication using softened wax pressed between double-sided Great Seal matrices attached to an open vellum grant by silk cords.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "Sober administrative finality. 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