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Mark Hailwood
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Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
A missed opportunity on the headline here @wsc.co.uk. ‘Rewilding’, surely?
October 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I believe you kids call this an ‘unboxing’…
October 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Proper snow! In Exeter! In November!

Thoughts and prayers are with the hydrangea at this time...
November 21, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Away from my desk I play village cricket in the summer, and visit non-league football grounds in the winter, so you might get some snaps of those too... (5/5)
November 12, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Thanks for the help folks; it is either mittemus or mittence (I think its the former, but appears again later in the document looking more like the latter). Either way, the meaning of a warrant issued by a justice committing a person to custody makes sense.
November 18, 2023 at 10:00 AM
Folks do paleography here right? I think this says 'made her mittence'. But what does it mean? The full sentence is:

she being brought before [a JP] upon examination of her found just cause to send her to the house of correction, and made her mittens and delivered [her to the tithingman]
November 17, 2023 at 3:40 PM
Ah, I know... cat pic!
November 17, 2023 at 9:34 AM