And take Notice, that in default of your so doing, the Plaintiff may proceed therein, and Judgment may be given in your absence.
Witness, ERMYNTRUDE VISCOUNTESS BOOLE, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the fifteenth day of September, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and fifty-three.
N.B.—This Writ is to be served within Twelve Calendar Months from the date thereof, or, if renewed, within Six Calendar Months from the last date of the last renewal, including the day of such date, and not afterwards.
The Defendant may appear hereto by entering Appearance , either personally or by Solicitor, at the Central Office, Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London.
If the Defendant fail to deliver a defence within Ten Days after the last day of the time limited for Appearance , he may have Judgment entered against him without notice, unless he has in the meantime been served with a Summons for Judgment or for Directions.
Mr. Blagden stared hopelessly at this rigmarole. Why this solicitude of his Sovereign for his old false self? Why this peremptory, this tyrannical summons from a Monarch whom he had loyally served on the Commission of the Peace during so prolonged and prosperous a reign?
He happened to turn the sheet over. On the other side was a line of print followed by writing:
The Plaintiff’s Claim is
For damages for impersonation of the Plaintiff in connection with financial and commercial transactions conducted in his name without his consent.