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Subject: Re: De Tregoz
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:28:04 EST
In a message dated 11/9/06 5:36:08 AM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:
<< No; she was John Tregoz's widow in 1288. The "fine" was simply a
payment to excuse her from being obliged to marry someone else, in the
days when a feudal lord had the right to arrange the marriage of his
tenant's widow. >>
The way I read it, she paid the fine in order to be able to marry whoever she
wanted to. As opposed to being required to marry whoever the king wanted her
to. Isn't that what it means?
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