The Grey of Ruthin Valor; The Valor of the English Lands of Edmund Grey, Earl of Kent, Drawn Up from the Ministers' Accounts of 1467-8
by Jack, R.I. (editor) (Edited with introduction by R.I. Jack.)
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Sydney: Sydney University Press 1965. (Hardcover) 158pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, notes, tables, indices. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed. "Late in 1468, in the reign of King Edward IV, a household official of Edmund, Earl of Kent, sat in Ampthill Castle, Bedfordshire, and translated into a vigorous and utilitarian vernacular the accounts of his master's English lands in the previous year. He wrote this translation directly into a paper book, which was later bound with vellum. If he lapsed into copying the Latin by accident, he stroked through the offending words and wrote the phrase again in English". Book about , Earl of Kent & Edmund Grey. Time Period 15th Century. Edited with introduction by R.I. Jack. Locale: Bedfordshire--England. (History--England, Business, Economics, History--England, Nobility).
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- The Grey of Ruthin Valor; The Valor of the English Lands of Edmund Grey, Earl of Kent, Drawn Up from the Ministers' Accounts of 1467-8
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- Jack, R.I. (editor) (Edited with introduction by R.I. Jack.)
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- Hardcover
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- Sydney University Press
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- Sydney
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- History--England, Business, Economics, History--England, Nobility
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