Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1851

The Conquest

By P. H. F.

W.L. is informed that I have before me several old parchment documents or title-deeds, in which the words "post conquestum" are used merely to express (as part of their dates) the year after the accession of those kings respectively in whose reigns those documents were made.

Topics: Historical Documents, Title-Deeds, Royal Accession