[HISTORY] The Story of Coventry, by Mary Dormer Harris - availle

[Availle]

And we're open for business!

Thanks for JorWat for keeping this one going as BC and DPL.

[Owler]

Hello, please I would like to record sections 11, 12 and 13
Many thanks

[JorWat]

Hello, please I would like to record sections 11, 12 and 13
Many thanks

They're all yours. I'll point out (as I only just added this to the MW), Section 12 ends at "for the singular pleasure and good grace of our sovereign lord, king Edward." in Paul's original plan.

[Owler]

Here is section 11 (length 42:47)

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_11_harris_128kb.mp3

[JorWat]

Here is section 11 (length 42:47)

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_11_harris_128kb.mp3

Just one note.

9:05: Failed take to be removed

[Owler]

Oops sorry about that, I have fixed it (now 42:39 in length)

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_11_harris_128kb.mp3

[JorWat]

Oops sorry about that, I have fixed it (now 42:39 in length)

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_11_harris_128kb.mp3

PL OK

[Owler]

Here is section 12 (length 33:38) https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_12_harris_128kb.mp3

[JorWat]

Here is section 12 (length 33:38) https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_12_harris_128kb.mp3

PL OK

[Owler]

Hello, here is section 13 (length 32:31)

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_13_harris_128kb.mp3

[JorWat]

Hello, here is section 13 (length 32:31)

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_13_harris_128kb.mp3

PL OK

[Cbteddy]

Hi! May I please have section 16?

[JorWat]

Hi! May I please have section 16?

Yep, it's all yours.

[Cbteddy]

Hello! Here is section 16 (31:29). I did my best with the pronunciations of the Old English (?) but am happy to make any changes as needed.

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_16_harris_128kb.mp3

[JorWat]

Hello! Here is section 16 (31:29). I did my best with the pronunciations of the Old English (?) but am happy to make any changes as needed.

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_16_harris_128kb.mp3

Here are your notes:

1:17: 'Hard by people stood the Searching-house' should be 'Hard by stood the Searching-house'
1:59: You're missing "An order of leet passed in 1518 gives very precise directions for the searching process." here
2:00 (not required): I think 'foloeth' in "Hit is to be had in mynde that for a trueth of Clothmakyng to be had in this cite as foloeth" is to be parsed as 'follow-eth' (i.e. an old form of 'follows')
2:16 (not required): 'recouered' in "remedie to be recouered to eny welth or prosperite" is 'recovered'.
2:21: 'ij' in "hit is thought hit were good to have ij wevers & ij walkers" is II, or 2.
2:32: 'vj' in "and also to be chosen vj drapers to be maisters" is VI, or 6
2:44: 'vj' again in "yet some of these vj maisters schall euer be ther"
2:46 (not required): 'besynes' in "And by cause it were to great a besynes for the serchers" is 'business'
2:51 (not required): 'mannes' in "to go to every mannes howse" is 'man's'
2:54: "hit it enacted" should be "hit is enacted"
2:56: 'haue' in "at this lete to haue a howse of the gilde" is 'have'
3:16: Repetition of 'it' in "& to se it ouer a perche"
3:37 (not required): 'suerte' in "ffor of suerte ther is in London" is 'surety'.
4:10: 'fourme' in "And this serche to be made also this fourme" is 'form'
4:12: 'ij' again in "that is to sey ij days in the weke". Also, 'weke' is 'week'
4:16: 'ij' again in "and ij of the serchers"
4:19-4:23: This should be read as "from 8 of the clock to a[n] 11, and from one to 4 of the clock"
4:23 (not required): 'ordeyned' in "and a sealer to be ordeyned" is 'ordained'
4:33: 'ij' again in "and the sealles to be put in a cofre with ij keys"
4:37: No "and" before "the master of the vj drapers to have the on". Also, 'vj' again, and 'on' is 'one'
4:41: 'j d.' in "and for the serche of every cloth to the serchers to have j d." is '1 p' or 'one pence'
5:01: 'Calais' "who traded in wool as members of the Staple of Calais" is pronounced 'CAL-ey'
5:15 (not required): "and take rank among the country gentry" should be "and take rank among the county gentry"
7:05 (not required): "Just as, about a hundred years before that" should be "Just as, about a hundred years before that time"
7:20: I'm hearing 'prensent' instead of 'present' in "and "present" them for any "fault or confederacy" at the court of the mayor" ('pri-ZENT' in this case, as it's a verb)
13:13: 'pepull' in "hit is like myche of the kynges pepull" is 'people'
13:15: "and in the speciall poor chapmen and clothemakers" should be "and in speciall poor chapmen and clothemakers"
13:47: 'eese' in "Never the later for his own eese he will com to his brakemon" is 'ease'.
13:58 (not required): "the metal comes to be sold for making fishing hooks" should be "the metal comes to be sold for making fish hooks"
14:20: 'misgouerned atte herthe' in "Lo, here is a stryng or ij (two) that hathe ben misgouerned atte herthe" is 'misgoverned at hearth'
14:26 (not required): 'dever' in "my brakemon hathe don his dever" is 'devoir' (duh-VWAHR)
14:41: I'm not hearing 'hit' in "but neverthelater he sethe be cause hit is cutte"
15:10: 'lege peapull' in "in fortheryng of the kynges true lege peapull" is 'liege people'
15:13: 'eschueng' in "and in eschueng of all disseytes" is 'eschewing'
15:55: Large gap between "were ones or thies disseyved withe" and "ontrewe wire"
16:02 (not required): I believe 'warre' in "he wolde be warre" is 'ware', as in 'Cognizant, informed, conscious', like 'aware'
16:11 (not required): I believe 'honde' in "amend your honde" is 'hand'
16:22: I believe 'eontrewe' in "and the kinges peapull not disseyved with eontrewe goode" is 'untrue'
16:59: 'ne' in "no colour ne sotell imagynacion" is a form of 'nor'. Also, 'sotell' is 'subtle'.
17:06: 'grevying' in "the whiche may be hynderying or grevying to the kinges lege pepull" is 'greiving'. Also, 'lege pepull' is 'liege people' again.
18:56 (not required): 'inveighing' in "taunting the corporation with injustice and inveighing against the rules" is pronounced 'in-VEY-ing'
21:01: I'm hearing 'then' rather than 'they' in "and they repeated the order after a few years' space"
24:04: I'm hearing 'usually' rather than 'usual' in "It was usual among the artisan crafts"

I appreciate it's a lot, but this was a challenging section, what with all the Middle/Early Modern English.