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Tom Johnson
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historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
Can anyone help with a passage from this will of 1450? Reading from "Et sinon..." in the top right corner.

I'm getting stuck with
"bonorum meorum in consilium? et p[ro?]vebil[?]"

and then

"post decessum predicte Margarete mancione mea nemi[?]detur?"

Any suggestions very welcome!
July 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
live footage of me realizing that Leeds IMC is in fact, next week
July 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
reading the 1732 parliamentary report on the Cotton library fire, and I know it was a monumental loss to scholarship and tragedy for human knowledge etc etc but this is just objectively funny
May 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Fancy a real paleography challenge? Try the deranged hieroglyphs of a para-literate 4yo
February 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
got my hatchet out for this one
February 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Final revisions submitted! Coming (not that) soon to P&P, an article that launches the central ideas of my current book project...

(happy to share the draft for anyone interested)
January 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
An archivist with a sense of humor: the HMSPO mark stamped on this charter in the space that had been left for an illuminated capital in 1463 and never filled in
December 17, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Making a lasagna with the 3yo when I had to go and answer the door. Got back two minutes later to find both 3yo and a block of Parmesan missing.

He had taken it into his sofa den like a literal wild animal. This is what I got back:
December 6, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Wider passage is here
November 18, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Could I get a second pair of paleographical eyes on the Middle English word after "vocatur" here? I have an idea but it is a little out-there and would like a second opinion!

It's a will of 1450, Suffolk archdeaconry, Walter Almygame
November 18, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Maternal guilt as a transhistorical phenomenon:

The will of William Gardner, of Easton Bavents (Suffolk), from 1491, specifies to his children that "qwat chyld is most kynd to hys mothyr" may have his house.
September 27, 2023 at 1:11 PM
Today in creepy toddler: the train on the right is apparently called "No Face Thomas".
September 25, 2023 at 7:41 AM
fortune cookie declares war on historians everywhere
September 22, 2023 at 5:55 AM