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This week’s poser is taken from the testament dative of a servant girl, recorded in the Commissary Court of St Andrews in 1597 (National Archives of Scotland, CC20/4/3/198). Isobel Broun died intestate, leaving behind no possessions, other than her clothing (small abulzement), worth 20 shillings.
Quite a tough one this week. If you are unfamiliar with secretary hand letters, the jargon of testaments and the way sums of money and other numerals were written in the sixteenth century, you might need to look at some of the help pages suggested below.
This week’s questions: who was the executor, what was her relationship to the deceased and what is odd about the way the date has been written in line 5?
Help
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Scots and legal words
Money
Phonetic spelling
Dates
Letter s
Letter h
Letters u, v and w
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