No crowdsourcing for this one - a small group of researchers/paleographers at Northwestern. We started with our own transcriptions, and eventually used model generated transcriptions that we then corrected & fed back in.

It appears as a landmark in this deposition from 1574, as Mistress Buckfolde purchased about 30£ of silk and returned to her dwelling "by the great Condit in Chepeside" [TNA E133/2/230]

According to fleetstreetheritage.co.uk, "When Anne Boleyn processed from the tower to her coronation...the Conduit was reported to be flowing with wine...and another pageant was held there for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation...[it] was also a favoured place for the posting of proclamations."

A stitched doublet is less clear to me - maybe something like a gambeson or padded doublet? www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Privy coat appears in the OED - dated to the early 1500s, "An armoured coat (usually of chain mail) worn concealed under ordinary clothing"

Of course! Thank you!! I got it in my head that it would be a holiday of some kind, but a weekday makes much more sense with sevenight.

"at this p[resent] and it was at [strikethrough] ^aboute / <???> last was ^a sevenight". The other reference of time in this document is Lent, but no guarantees this day was nearby. I see "gandaye" but I don't know what that means.

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Would love to hear what he thinks! Thanks!

If the original grant mentioned was extant, maybe matching that language was important? I'm transcribing it to train a Transkribus model rather than researching the specific case, so others might have more informed thoughts. Most of our files are 1590 so I assumed an earlier date, but this is 1608.

I wonder if the phrasing has to do with the original grant from Athelstan that the case is referring to. I haven't seen it, but "King of the English" (rex Anglorum) was a title used for Athelstan through John. I think the specificity from the scribe in the 1600s is interesting.