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Posted on July 13, 2015 Updated on July 23, 2015

• Found on important documents signed by The Guild of the Holy Cross (a church organisation in Stratford in the 15th century)
• They built a new guild hall, a school and almshouses for the poor and infirm
• Their properties were confiscated during Henry VIII’s reformation but granted to the newly chartered (and Protestant) Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon in 1553.

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Wax seals

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