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| This selection only gets you part way there as the passage is heavily abbreviated. Check out the rest from the transcript. Note that some of the abbreviations in this rather informally written note do not use the standard forms for particular suffixes. The endings are simply left off in what is really a shorthand that ignores the finer points of Latin grammar. While we have attempted to reconstruct the correct Latin endings for your clarification, that is not strictly the correct thing to do in an academic transcript. When it is not clear from the abbreviation what the ending should be, the proper procedure is to use an apostrophe, such as garrant' or fac'. That is what the gurus say anyway. |
| Petition to Henry VI of 1441. (London, National Archives, E28/G8/18). All images by permission of the National Archives. |
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