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Oh, What Tangled Webs We Weave: The Complicated Banbury Peerage Case

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Regina Jeffers

In writing historicals set in England in the early 1800s, it is necessary for me to possess more than a working knowledge of primogeniture, which is both the custom and the law of inheritance in practice at that time. In … Continue reading →

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