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Letters Patent

So denominated because they are written upon open sheets of parchment, with the seal of the sovereign or party by whom they were issued pendent at the bottom. Close letters are folded up and sealed on the outside. (Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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