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When John Rawlyn of the Essex town of Ulting died in 1493, he left a testament in which the name of one of the executors, “a certain Carr” of Chelmsford, was crossed out. This raised suspicions that the document had been tampered with, that the other executors had deleted Carr’s name after Rawlyn’s death. ThoughContinue reading “Office c. Henry Baker and Thomas Pursot”