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Document-specific information
Creator: Sir William Dethick, Garter King of Arms
Title: First draft grants of arms based on John Shakespeare’s and William Shakespeare’s applications for acquiring a coat of arms (1596)
Date: October 20, 1596
Repository: College of Arms, London, UK
Call number and opening: Record Shakespeare Draft Grant of Arms 1 (formerly MS Vincent 157, no. 23)