Note 31 — MODERN STATE TRIALS.10 PART V.—THE ROMANCE OF FORGERY—Concluded.
Reading edition
When the precept issues in favour of a Writer to the Signet, or of the Keeper of the Signet, (as Lord Stirling then was,) the precept passes the signet gratis: and that word is written at the bottom.—Swinton, p. 84.