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What Pegman Saw: Don’t Listen to Local Talk

Posted on July 8, 2019 by crispina kemp

You say Jean de Gisors founded Portsmouth? On land that he bought off Adam de Port? But that can’t be true. In 1172 Henry Plantagenet exiled Adam de Port for his involvement in the Scottish Lion-king’s invasion of *the Borders*; … Continue reading →

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