Friday, 18 April 2008

Write it down somewhere safe

Dear Scholarly World
Here is a citation for your footnotes.
Grundy, G. B., 'The Saxon Land Charters of Wiltshire I', Archaeological Journal 2nd series 26 (1919), 143–301, at p. 191 n. 1.
The note reads simply "1. I have mislaid the reference."

I wonder how many times I can get away with citing it in my Wilton charters book?

2 comments:

  1. PS I tracked down the reference which Grundy had mislaid, and now I feel sad and like the world is a bit less of an innocent place. The reference is:
    Radcliffe, P. D., 'Deed of Gift of North Nywantune...' Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 19 (1881), 228–31, at p. 230, n. "*". The note in question is signed [Ed]. [Ed] didn't believe a word Radcliffe was saying, is my guess. Lucky for us all [Ed] was there to inject some sense into a rather silly article which finds traces of the Bohuns in a tenth century charter and has a very strange etymology for the Wiltshire placename Cats Brain.

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