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Anyway, thank you very much for transcribing it - I should have shared my edition and translation with the picture, but I found out tonight that someone I considered a friend has stolen some of my research and published it as their own so I’m feeling disproportionately over-protective tonight.

I am very sorry to hear that.

Unfortunately, I have seen this happen rather often. I have even witnessed professors stealing the work of students, something that absolutely shocked me the first time I saw it and that I was unwilling to believe (and then I witnessed it again at another university and realized yes, it does happen).

It occurs the other way around also. There's some pretty strong evidence that a student stole and patented the work of one of his professors and subsequently collected millions in royalties after the professor's death.

And colleagues do it to colleagues.    


A hot bath and chocolate sometimes can ease the disappointment.

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The charter (the second one down in your post) is using the crosses to indicate each person who witnessed the grant of land being made. The part of the charter with all of the crosses is known as the witness list/subscription list and each person there is saying “I Leofric a duke [witnessed this]”. Gifts of land were recorded publicly in the early middle ages and the witnesses could theoretically be called upon to help if the details of the grant were ever disputed.

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This is very helpful information!