The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790

Punctuation in very early wills

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Judy Lester

I’ I’m still a bit confused about how to deal…

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Document image vanishing?

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Tony Pitt

I’ve been working happily at transcription today, but the site…

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Problems with the marking of lines in pages

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Tony Pitt

I have two pages where the marking of lines is…

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Any more pages to transcribe?

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Tony Pitt

I have completed the pages I have been given to…

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God

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Austen Hamilton

When ‘God’ appears in the text, there is always a…

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Highlighting of lines

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Judy Lester

When I logged on today I found that each line…

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Turkish war in 1665 ?

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Juliet Gayton

One of my wills written in mid 1665 leaves money…

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Transkribus Trouble

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Louise Pitre

Hello all, Has anyone had issues opening Transkribus today? It…

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Marking superscripts

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Tony Pitt

I had queried marking superscripts with Emily a while ago…

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Questions

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Pauline Dolan

I am going through the wills I have done and…

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weird @ symbol – help please

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Jan Tasker

Hi Does anyone know what the weird symbol that divides…

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Automatic posting message

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Jan Tasker

Does anyone know if there is a way I can…

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Line numbering confusion

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Jan Tasker

Hi All, I am having some issues with the line…

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Additional versions of pages

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Juliet Gayton

Unless I am mistkaen, there are many of us who…

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Wow! Enormous bequests …

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Tony Pitt

The page I’ve been transcribing includes a considerable number of…

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Numbers in the middle of lines blocking text

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Pauline Dolan

I I have a will with a good number of…

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Transcribing diphthongs/ligatures

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Tony Pitt

I have come across a couple of examples (in Latin…

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Latin text for grant of Probate?

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Tony Pitt

I realise that it won’t always be identical, but does…

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What is the meaning of this marginal note?

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Tony Pitt

While I have transcribed this (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hhb7juvxvwbpzle3by25o/Margin-Note.PNG?rlkey=gu5u9pjwrus5mcya3za0nawfl&dl=0) as “Ov sir”, I…

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Transcription of inserted text?

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Tony Pitt

What are we to do with inserted text, for example…

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Registeringā€¦

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Polly Rubery

Well that was interesting! I got here in the end…

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Has anyone found examples of the phrase ‘knowing the perils and dangers of the sea’ in preamble?

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Laura Sangha

This was a question my colleague at the University of…

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