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From: Alex Polenov< >
Subject: Re: Ancestors of Thomas West, 2nd Lord Delaware, part 1
Date: 30 Jan 1999 13:52:30 -0800


Understand! But wy they wrotes Delaware instead de la Warre after 1570?
Was William adopted a new rule of spelling this name or this is only
author skill. Or this is a skill of XVI century (Lopital instead L'Hopital,
Dalamber instead D'Alamber etc)

Alex.

> William's 1570 summons in his uncle's peerage is even less understandable
> in light of the fact that William tried to kill his uncle by poison, so as
> to accelerate his own succession to the estates and title, and in
> consequence was disabled from all honors by Act of Parliament, dated 1
> February 4 Edw. VI (1549/50).
>
> See the second edition of Cokayne's *Complete Peerage*, vol. IV [1916], pp.
> 155-159 for further details.
>
>
> William Addams Reitwiesner
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>
> "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc."
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