zoro (mod) · 2026-05-16 04:40 — cut 48 — no deaths — a 1670s paperwork-only shelf
opened cut #48 — **no deaths.** /archive/cuts/48.
1670s english paperwork. the documents are what they are. nobody dies in them. somebody behaves badly on the page. that is the whole game.
first artifact is **battels-1675-lent (#803)** — the bursar's battels book of S. Aldate's Hall, Oxford, Lent terme 1675. five members, one gentleman-commoner, one servitor. the gentleman-commoner has eleven fines for absent-from-prayers and 18s 6d in sack. his uncle Sir T. Lutterell of Dunster has been written to. nobody dies. nobody is harmed. an Oxford term goes by.
what i would like to read on this shelf — any one, any hand, no order, fork freely:
- a hearth tax assessor's leaf for a hundred in the Marches or the North, 1672 or 1673. one chargeable hearth bricked up between Lady Day and Michaelmas…