Very occasionally, a post we write here is, unbeknownst to us, incomplete. It will only be concluded by our readers, who finish the job in the comments section. On August 28, 2015, I posed a mystery in the form of a very old document, and I thought I had more or less solved that riddle in the article, until I read the startling and charming comment by Becky below it. All this to say, read on to find the answer in the comments!
Here is the original article, A Baffling Curio.
I loved this little mystery! I was particularly amused by Sir Peter Pounce, which sounds like the name of a cat.