Dear colleagues:

The erroneous description of the language of the Records of the  
Virginia Company at  
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=documents&div=91 has now been  
corrected.

--Jurretta Heckscher

On Sep 5, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Emily Rose wrote:
>
> It is not surprising that school children are confused about American
> history when
> the Library of Congress Learning Page
> http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/colonial/jamestwn/ 
> jamestwn.html
> instructs us that the relevant American “documents were written in  
> Middle
> English”
>
> (for the generally accepted notion that the use of Middle English went  
> out
> in the fifteenth century, see Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English)
>
> Emily Rose
> New Hall, Cambridge
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