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Offline bristolloggerheads

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Minutes from 1638
« on: Sunday 19 March 17 19:50 GMT (UK) »
The clerk who wrote these minutes had some individual ways of spelling certain words e.g. fermors for farmers. How would you transcribe these two words beginning "ex"?

Foster and Peniall Messengers have warrants under the Kings hand for ? of this Patent, and so brrake open the dorrs
The Petitioners desire that the Patent may bee called for and offer to submit to the Patent, so it may bee truly ? according to the direction of the Patent.
Syner alias Taylor from Broseley and Benthall

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Re: Minutes from 1638
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 19 March 17 20:00 GMT (UK) »
Looks like exequution for execution and exequuted for executed.

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Re: Minutes from 1638
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 19 March 17 20:06 GMT (UK) »
Interesting, English spelling didn't actually settle down properly until the 1700s, so before that people could spell things any way they liked, and no spelling  was 'wrong'.  It wasn't until the advent of serious English dictionaries - such as the one  published by Samuel Johnson in 1755 - that spellings started to become standardised.  Imagine being a child learning to read and write, and not be constrained by 'correct' spellings!   ;D
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
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Re: Minutes from 1638
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 19 March 17 20:23 GMT (UK) »
Rather than "and so brrake open the dorrs" - "and to breake open the dores"
Researching among others:
Bartle, Bilton, Bingley, Campbell, Craven, Emmott, Harcourt, Hirst, Kellet(t), Kennedy,
Meaburn, Mennile/Meynell, Metcalf(e), Palliser, Robinson, Rutter, Shipley, Stow, Wilkinson

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Re: Minutes from 1638
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 21 March 17 22:24 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks to everyone for the second pair of eyes.
Syner alias Taylor from Broseley and Benthall
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