After a lengthy chase through a pile of sources this morning I eventually remembered (cue trumpets, choral voices from above, shafts of blinding light and a very large facepalm) that 'son-in-law' in seventeenth-century texts can also mean stepson. #newsbooks#history#earlymodern#17thC#genealogy
I've just found a 1642 reference to Skegness being called 'Skegins' (E.115[21]). Well that does it for me, from now on it will always be 'Skegins' 😄 #newsbooks
A deep dive into the Isle of Wight situation in 1642 was not on the agenda when I started work today, but at least npw I understand what's what, and won't have to do it again 🙄 #newsbooks
No, though it's underway. I have access to all the newsbooks, it just takes longer to pinpoint stuff pre-transcription, footnoting and uploading. All being well, the 1642 transcriptions should be going online end of the year.
Are the 1643 newsbooks also fully transcribed?
I'm delighted you've shared this, as it falls right into my wheelhouse, so to speak! All the 1642 newsbooks are now transcribed, and there's no mention of Nottingham before July, so I don't have an account of a particular incident. 1 /
New newsbook tag: civilian flight Not the availability of cheap holidays to the New World, but regular people fleeing their homes due to military activity or fear of it. So far I have 13 reported instances tagged in 1642. Undoubtedly many went unrecorded. #newsbooks#history#17thC#earlymodern
Casual torture was used by both sides in 1642, to obtain information. In Kent, Parliamentarian soldiers burned a servant's hand with a hot tobacco pipe (E.115[21]), and in Abingdon the Royalists allegedly drove pins into a woman's hand to get information from her (E.242[6]). #newsbooks#17thC
I've just unearthed a claim that a number of civilians were killed at Edgehill when Rupert attacked the Parliamentarian baggage: reportedly they 'came to behold the fight, and stood by the Lord Generalls baggage and Carriages'. E.240[49], E.242[6] #newsbooks#17thC#earlymodern#history