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Anon [Ratcliffe, E.E.], The Royal Maundy, London, 1945, 16pp, illustrations in text, newspaper cutting relating to the 1947 Maundy ceremony tipped-in; Ratcliffe, E.E., and Wright, P.A., The Royal Maundy: a brief outline of its history and ceremonial, 8th edn, 1963, 32pp, illustrations in text; Wright, P.A., The Pictorial History of the Royal Maundy, London, 1971, 24pp, illustrations in text, signed by the author on title page; together with a copy of the Order of Service for the Maundy distribution of 1936, 8pp, an invitation from the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral to a Miss P. Smith to attend the 1965 Maundy service, and an admission ticket to that service [6]. An interesting lot (£30-50)

The Maundy ceremony at Westminster Abbey on 9 April 1936 was one of the first public ceremonial duties undertaken by Edward VIII, who abdicated later that year