Just a little post relevant to only a few but I couldn't help myself. I have in the last few days spent time looking at Deeds and Sasines - in Secretary hand, in Latin, crowded on the page to save paper (all for bed time reading at home) or, after the paper shortage has eased, written in lovely copper plate that fills pages and pages.
Yes, there is some information here but what attracted my attention was the penalties for not paying for purchases on time. For example, John Smith agreed to pay John Brown "at Whitsunday next one thousand pounds stirling with the sum of two hundred pounds sterling of liquidate penalty in case of failure".
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