The Holy Cross Church Convent of Lelese certifies reconciliation of Ivascu, Sandrin of Iod’s son, in his own name and in the name of his relatives, with Sandrin Bela of Iod and his kinship, trial closed.

1459, June 19, (Lelese is a village in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania.)

Latin in the original, parchment, hanging seal

BAR, Seal 499

Wax seals were being used on a fairly regular basis by most royal chanceries and ecclesiastical authorities. In the tenth century the use of seals spread to princes and, later, to bishops, with other ecclesiastical officials adopting seals in the twelfth century, with each rank adapting its own form.