Julianna Bratt
@bjulianna.bsky.social
Paleographer & family historian interested in early modern England, book binding & book history, and nice people fleeing twitter. MA student in archives & records management, distance learning through Aberystwyth University.
No crowdsourcing for this one - a small group of researchers/paleographers at Northwestern. We started with our own transcriptions, and eventually used model generated transcriptions that we then corrected & fed back in.
August 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
No crowdsourcing for this one - a small group of researchers/paleographers at Northwestern. We started with our own transcriptions, and eventually used model generated transcriptions that we then corrected & fed back in.
It appears as a landmark in this deposition from 1574, as Mistress Buckfolde purchased about 30£ of silk and returned to her dwelling "by the great Condit in Chepeside" [TNA E133/2/230]
August 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It appears as a landmark in this deposition from 1574, as Mistress Buckfolde purchased about 30£ of silk and returned to her dwelling "by the great Condit in Chepeside" [TNA E133/2/230]
According to fleetstreetheritage.co.uk, "When Anne Boleyn processed from the tower to her coronation...the Conduit was reported to be flowing with wine...and another pageant was held there for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation...[it] was also a favoured place for the posting of proclamations."
The Heritage of Fleet Street
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August 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
According to fleetstreetheritage.co.uk, "When Anne Boleyn processed from the tower to her coronation...the Conduit was reported to be flowing with wine...and another pageant was held there for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation...[it] was also a favoured place for the posting of proclamations."
A stitched doublet is less clear to me - maybe something like a gambeson or padded doublet? www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Jerkin | Western European | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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March 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A stitched doublet is less clear to me - maybe something like a gambeson or padded doublet? www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Privy coat appears in the OED - dated to the early 1500s, "An armoured coat (usually of chain mail) worn concealed under ordinary clothing"
March 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Privy coat appears in the OED - dated to the early 1500s, "An armoured coat (usually of chain mail) worn concealed under ordinary clothing"
Of course! Thank you!! I got it in my head that it would be a holiday of some kind, but a weekday makes much more sense with sevenight.
March 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Of course! Thank you!! I got it in my head that it would be a holiday of some kind, but a weekday makes much more sense with sevenight.
"at this p[resent] and it was at [strikethrough] ^aboute / <???> last was ^a sevenight". The other reference of time in this document is Lent, but no guarantees this day was nearby. I see "gandaye" but I don't know what that means.
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"at this p[resent] and it was at [strikethrough] ^aboute / <???> last was ^a sevenight". The other reference of time in this document is Lent, but no guarantees this day was nearby. I see "gandaye" but I don't know what that means.
Would love to hear what he thinks! Thanks!
February 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Would love to hear what he thinks! Thanks!
If the original grant mentioned was extant, maybe matching that language was important? I'm transcribing it to train a Transkribus model rather than researching the specific case, so others might have more informed thoughts. Most of our files are 1590 so I assumed an earlier date, but this is 1608.
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February 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If the original grant mentioned was extant, maybe matching that language was important? I'm transcribing it to train a Transkribus model rather than researching the specific case, so others might have more informed thoughts. Most of our files are 1590 so I assumed an earlier date, but this is 1608.
I wonder if the phrasing has to do with the original grant from Athelstan that the case is referring to. I haven't seen it, but "King of the English" (rex Anglorum) was a title used for Athelstan through John. I think the specificity from the scribe in the 1600s is interesting.
February 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I wonder if the phrasing has to do with the original grant from Athelstan that the case is referring to. I haven't seen it, but "King of the English" (rex Anglorum) was a title used for Athelstan through John. I think the specificity from the scribe in the 1600s is interesting.
It is just in this little alcove on Cannon Street, right across from Cannon Street station. It hasn’t moved far in the last 1,000 years and was kept through the great fire & the bombing of St Swithins church. The MoEML has a great page on it: mapoflondon.uvic.ca/LOND2.htm?ss...
MoEML: London Stone
The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) comprises four distinct, interoperable projects. MoEML began in 1999 as a digital atlas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London based on the 1560s Agas wood...
https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/LOND2.htm?ssMark=Swithin’s#d941e2611
January 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It is just in this little alcove on Cannon Street, right across from Cannon Street station. It hasn’t moved far in the last 1,000 years and was kept through the great fire & the bombing of St Swithins church. The MoEML has a great page on it: mapoflondon.uvic.ca/LOND2.htm?ss...