Private charter, 13th century (British Library, add. charter 20592). All images by permission of the British Library. |
If you have worked through the whole section, you should be ready to try a ye olde handwritten transcript of the complete document. Go back to the text page, then check your transcript against ours. |
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Index of Exercises |
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