? antedating ? of Rowdy?

[Robin Hamilton]

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> That's my guess.
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> JL

My reading of the facsimile image on the page would be:  "Bawdy houses"
(Upper case 'B' in Word1, and lowercase 'h' and medial long 's' in Word2.)

(Oddly, the bit I looked at seems, in the original MS, to consistently spell
"for" as "ffor" [transcribed, in the excerpt below, as 'F'].  I'd thought
that was mostly found in pre-modern Scots.  Is there a paleographer in the
house?)

Robin
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>> Bridewell Royal Hospital: Minutes of the Court of Governors
>> 23rd August 1693--2nd May 1701
>>
>> Mary Walker P wart. of Sr. Robt. Geffery For being idle person & a
>> Frequenter of Rowdy Houses & For Defrauding one & Andrews of a Steal
>> hilted
>> Sword val 25s.
>> Pun

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