GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives

Archiver > GEN-MEDIEVAL > 1998-02 > 0888602294


From: "James C. Woodard" <>
Subject: Re: Countess Ida and the Bradenstoke Cartulary
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:58:14 -0800


D. Spencer Hines wrote:

>What I do object to is people who have never even sighted the Cartulary of
>Bradenstoke Priory or determined its origins and provenance --- making
<unqualified and categorical statements about it. That way lies lunacy in
>all things Historical. One does not accept hearsay and rumour as fact in
>Law, History or Genealogy.

And have you sighted the sources for all the things you post? I sometimes
think you hold others to a higher standard than you are willing to follow
youself.
Jim

This thread: