Dimensions 330 x 200 mm. Single leaf broadside. Uncut, but for gutter margin. Old folds and slight marginal creasing, soiling to verso, else a fine copy, completed in manuscript. With three embossed tax stamps, totalling 3 Guineas to upper margin.

Leading Anglo-Catholic Thomas Weld of Lulworth Castle's (1750-1810) certified permit for the killing of game, endorsed by William Burnet, Clerk of the Peace for Dorset. The Game Acts of 1784, 1785 and 1791 made possession by of an annual game killing certificate for compulsory, under pains of a £20 fine, for both 'Gentlemen' and Gamekeepers wishing to engage in such activities. Registers of those who had paid Game Duty were kept by local Clerks of the Peace, transmitted to the Commissioners of Stamp Duty and in many cases published in local newspapers.

Weld is better known for his philanthropic activities - notably with the Society of Jesus - and his famous library at Lulworth Castle, which at one point housed both the Lutrell Psalter and the Bedford Hours.