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                  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
                  Sa Sc Se Sh Si Sl So Sp St Su Sy
                  Spe Spi Spu

                  special charge

                  letters under the signet seal charging the heir of someone who had died infeft in lands, to enter as heir to them.  The word ‘special’ is there because the ancestor of the heir had been infeft in the lands, as in a ‘special service’, which was the process by which the heir of someone who had been infeft acquired right to his estate.