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Creator: Records of the Lord Chancellor
Title: Warrant under the privy seal for the issue of letters patent authorizing Shakespeare and his companions to perform plays throughout the realm under royal patronage
Date: May 18, 1603
Repository: The National Archives, Kew, UK
Call number and opening: C 82/1690, no. 78
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