Keith -
Apologies: try putting "Notes (version 1a) Shropshire" into Google Search.
David Horovitz
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>Date: 15/10/2011 20:59
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>Subj: Re: Alecto Domesday Book
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>That link is not correct ("The page you are trying to access cannot be found.").
>Keith
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>Sent: 15 October 2011 11:58
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>Subject: Re: Alecto Domesday Book
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>The webpages at edocs.hull.ac.uk/muradora/frankthorn/domesdaybook (html version) should provide routeway to intensive analyses of 33 DB
>counties by Frank and Caroline Thorn at Hull University which raise such studies to a new level, and highlight discrepencies [sic] in
various
>published texts, including Alecto.
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>David Horovitz
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>>Date: 14/10/2011 10:39
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>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Subj: Re: Alecto Domesday Book
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>>I think you'll have to give chapter & verse on this one. Is it a case of
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>>the facsimile not being as clear as the original (colour, erasures not
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>>showing up?) The use of facsimiles was a problem that bedevilled the
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>>Hans Walter Gabler edition of James Joyce's "Ulysses".
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>>John Briggs
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>>On 14/10/2011 10:17, David Horovitz wrote:
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>>> Not sure whether the subject of misprints of place-names in Alecto Domesday facsimile has been raised previously. Under the belief
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>the facsimile was an accurate photographic reproduction, I "corrected" for publication earlier printed DB spellings, and am surprised (to
>put it mildly) to discover that the earlier spellings were apparently accurate and the facsimile is apparently incorrect. I can find no
>explanation in the promotional material issued by Alecto. Does anyone happen to have more information?
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