Alejandro, Yes you are right, Regards Martyn AMilb36287@aol.com wrote: In a transcription of an English parish register some of the entries (around 1580) give the days in Roman characters, such as "... the xviij October", or "the xxvijth day of January". I assume that the use of the "j" is just a convention and the day is actually the 18th and the 27th respectively, but I would like to confirm this. Thanks, Alejandro Milberg Boston, MA ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== OLD-ENGLISH Web Page http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/