follow up: is this a real document?

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spanktruck

It certainly looks like it is. There is a difference in this form in that it has a "To" field, which the one above does not. There's also more typing on the left-hand margin.

It also matches the phrasing of Turing's pardon.

OutOfTheAsh

Looks era appropriate--both in terms of technology employed in production, and aging.

Details such as Rab Butler being Home Sec'y, and being (by a month) the 10th year of QEII's reign are correct.

And, what would possibly be the cause for forging such a mundane object?

So, yeah.