Gosh! David. Were you at Bletchley Park?!!
GMcS
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From: "Dave Leach" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: manuscript
Can I suggest a little more? From what I can see and also from your
partial transcription, there appears to be two separate cases, one from
line 1 to line 5, and a second from line 6 onwards.
The place names appear to be in the county of Dorset in Southern England.
The modern spellings are Melbury Sampford, Melbury Osmond, and in the
second case, Symondsbury.
Lines 1 to 5 appear to require Robert Pidle (husbandman?) to appear at the
next general quarter sessions court. He is bound to the lord king in the
sum of £10.
His sureties, Thomas(?) Kinge of Melbury Sampford (husbandman?), and
Edward (not Kris) Jeffryes of Melbury Osmond yeoman, are each bound to the
lord king in the sum of £20 to ensure that Robert appears.
The other case does not seem to start with 'Recog...', but the general
form might be the same.
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