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Mar. 12th, 2009 @ 09:53 am 
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So. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey are available (free!) online. Records from 1674 to 1913. I have to go through them as part of my prep for my history workshop tomorrow. (I only JUST took my meds, so I'm not feeling I have to be in study mode quite yet.) It does contain a fair amount of stuff that's really quite interesting.
And sometimes disconcerting. This is the summary of the crime of a man hanged at Tyburn for Piracy on the High Seas:
A bill of indictment was found by the Grand Inquest, against George Geery, and others, for piratically and feloniously boarding a Dutch hoy, called the Derge Sustures, the property of persons to the jurors unknown, upon the high Seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, on the 15th day of August, 1768, about three leagues from Beachy-head, on the coast of Sussex, in this kingdom, and assaulting Peter Bootes, then master thereof, and robbing him of several hats, the property of persons to the jurors unknown.
Several hats?
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*dies*
*comes back to life to bookmark*
THANK YOU FOR SHARING I LOVE YOU SO MUCH IT NEEDS CAPSLOCKS.
Also, the hats were probably awesome. :)
*grins* You're welcome. This is why I'm posting any/all cool stuff I find in the course of my studies. If I weren't the one doing this unit, I'd want the person who was to be posting this stuff.
The thing that really gets me, though, is the implication that they weren't his hats. "Property of persons to the jurors unknown." Would it be prejudicial if they knew whose hats they were? There is a giant mystery in the question of the hats, for real.
Obviously, someone needs to write fic.
Time-travel fic.
Time-travel fic involving the Doctor and the hats.
... YES
Off you go then. ;)
(She who spotted the plot bunny has to catch it. >.>)
I have super-stared this in my gmail JUST so I come back to it later. But when Dr Who fic happens, I AM BLAMING YOU.
And the fabulous hats. Obviously.
*cheers extensively and enthusiastically* I will accept the blame with PRIDE.
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