Rebel Reserve Ward Knights: Research Revised
One of the several difficulties I face in returning after so long to my research is my own lack of notes on the subject. I have several books on Lewes and they are all boxed and in storage (unhelpful). I have created documents in the past but they are often thin on citations - which of course is my own fault - requiring me to go over ground I must have covered before. This is very much like genealogy except I'm not related to anyone. I have to be certain the names refer to the men actually at the battle on the day. This can be tricky as men had a habit of naming their sons after themselves for several generations - so I need to make sure I am including the right Robert or John and not their father, uncle, nephew or son. The spelling varied greatly in this period which affects search engines and when it comes to discovering blazons in armorial rolls and the like I may need to go further afield than just England. I had also made mistakes in my previous list for the knights I decided ...