Hi: I am just finishing transcribing the records of a civil court proceedings set up to adjudicate a 1727 dispute over the tithes due on herring fishing in Clovelly in North Devon. (I plan to make the results available in GENUKI - though i have yet to deal with the one page of Latin! :-) The records include a set of interrogatories, of which the following is a sample: "Item Doe you know the Rectory & parish of Clovelly in the County of Devon if yea how long have you known the same Doth the said parish stand upon or towards the Sea Coasts who by name been the successive Rectors of the said parish ever since your remembrance to this present time and what is the chief Imployment of most of the parishioners of the said parish Declare & P" In the above I have given the last characters as "& P" - I am sure of the "&" but not the "P" - the character/abbreviation thoughit looks much like a capital "P" is not identical to the form of capital "P" found elsewhere in the text. Could anyone suggest the meaning of "Declare & P", which is how most though not all the interrogatories end? Cheers Brian Randell -- School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/

Hi: Attempting a reply to my own question, I belatedly wonder whether "& P" should be transcribed as "&c"? Comments anyone? Cheers Brian Randell >Hi: > >I am just finishing transcribing the records of a civil court >proceedings set up to adjudicate a 1727 dispute over the tithes due >on herring fishing in Clovelly in North Devon. (I plan to make the >results available in GENUKI - though i have yet to deal with the one >page of Latin! :-) > >The records include a set of interrogatories, of which the following >is a sample: > >"Item Doe you know the Rectory & parish of Clovelly in the County of >Devon if yea how long have you known the same Doth the said parish >stand upon or towards the Sea Coasts who by name been the successive >Rectors of the said parish ever since your remembrance to this >present time and what is the chief Imployment of most of the >parishioners of the said parish Declare & P" > >In the above I have given the last characters as "& P" - I am sure >of the "&" but not the "P" - the character/abbreviation thoughit >looks much like a capital "P" is not identical to the form of >capital "P" found elsewhere in the text. > >Could anyone suggest the meaning of "Declare & P", which is how most >though not all the interrogatories end? > >Cheers > >Brian Randell > > >-- >School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, >NE1 7RU, UK >EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 >FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/ -- School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/