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From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <>
Subject: Dictionary of Genealogy & Archaic Terms [from Candyman Mailing List]
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:05:29 -0700


Dictionary of Genealogy & Archaic Terms
[The original listing done by Dick Eastman 8/2/89]
Last Edited: May 07, 2005


ROOTS Genealogical Dictionary
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randyj2222/gendict.html

Examples:
DRAWN AND QUARTERED
The capital punishment until 1870 in Britain was to be drawn, or dragged, on
a hurdle at horsetail to his place of execution and hanged on a gibbet, but
not till dead. He was then suspended on a hook, disemboweled while still
alive, beheaded and quartered. Until 1790 when they too were hanged, women
were burnt after being drawn. Again, as described by Chief Justice Edward
Coke: "For which cause also he shall be strangled, being hanged up by the
neck between heaven and earth as deemed unworthy of both or either; as
likewise, that the eyes of men may behold and their hearts contemn him. Then
he to be cut down alive, and have his privy parts cut off and burnt before
his face as being unworthily begotten and unfit to leave any generation
after him. His bowels and inlay'd parts taken out and burnt, who inwardly
had conceived and harbored such horrible treason. After, to have his head
cut off, which had imagined the mischief. And lastly, his body to be
quartered and the quarters set up in some high and eminent place, to the
view and detestation of men, and to become a prey for the fowls of the air."
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen, THE LION AND THE THRONE, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
SIR EDWARD COKE (1552-1634) (Boston, 1956), 258-259.

REGNAL DATE
a date expressed in terms of the number of years of a monarch s reign. For
example, 7 Henry VI = 7th year of the reign of King Henry the Sixth of
England. He ruled from 31 Aug 1422, so that is when his regnal year begins.
7 H VI, thus means, sometime between 31 Aug 1429 and 30 Aug 1430. Edward
III's double-dating is another difficult one. Between 1340 and 1360, when he
asserted and renounced his claim to the French crown, Edward III added his
French regnal years. When he resumed the claim in 1369 he added them again
counting in the years between 1360 and 1369. Hence, 25 January 1360 - 8 May
1360 is 34 & 21 Edw. III and 11 June 1369 - 24 Jan 1370 is 43 & 30 Edw. III,
the first number being his English regnal year. Another oddity is the year
of Henry VI's restoration. Edward IV's regnal years ignore it. 9 Oct. 1470 -
14 April 1471 is 49 & 1 Hen. VI but it lies inside 10 - 11 Edw. IV, 4 Mar
1470 - 3 Mar 1472. -- Ivor West (edited). Henry V's death was on 31 Aug, but
Hy VI accession was on 1st Sept. Some regnal years are taken from the same
day as the death of the previous king, some the following day. King John's
regnal years are difficult, he was crowned on Ascension Day and -being a
movable feast - his regnal year changed accordingly. Charles II was deemed
to have succeeded at the execution of his father Charles I, but during the
Interregnum, ordinary dating was used.



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