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From: "Harry Tadd" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] BEN KING of MILBORNE PORT + WILL IN LOW DUTCH
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:38:07 -0000
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Ah well! Still it was fun.
Harry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Weare" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] BEN KING of MILBORNE PORT + WILL IN LOW DUTCH


> Thanks everyone for the contributions and I think Wendy has the answer.
I've
> looked again at the will copy and certainly the note is nearer to the end
of
> Ben's will than to the start of the following document.
>
> That second document, however, seems to be a witness statement by a
"member
> of the honourable council and feudal court of fflanders" and drawn up by a
> notary public. Low Dutch seems much more likely to relate to this one.
>
> Something of a relief, really. Although I've not managed to find Ben there
> is parish register evidence of a KING family in Milborne Port for at least
> the previous 150 years.
>
> Robin
>
>
>
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