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Excerpt from Extracts From the Court Rolls of the Manor of Wimbledon: Extending From 1 Edward IV. To A. D. 1864, Selected From the Original Rolls for the Use of the Wimbledon Common Committee The Wimbledon Common Committee was Constituted in the month of March, 1866, at a meeting of the inhabitants and owners of property in the parishes of Wimbledon., Putney and Roehampton, with a view to take action for the better preservation of Wimbledon Common. One of the first measures of the Committee was to seek legal advice on the nature of the property and rights existing in the Common, as to which many different opinions had been expressed; Mr. Forster, the Steward of the Manor, having, in his evid...
This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Using a series of graded exercises in transcription, Teach Yourself Palaeography works backwards in time in easy stages from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century to the court hands of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local historians. The book provides a unique, self-contained reference guide to palaeography, and to all the different letter forms, symbols and abbreviations that have ever been used in English records.
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