On May 7, 7:28 am, Douglas Richardson <royalances...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Dear Adrian, etc.
>
> I was correct in my statement that the spelling of the English
> medieval baronial family is Holand, not Holland.
Curiously, the National Archives (UK) shows 94 examples of "de
Holland" and 334 of "de Holand", most entries in both categories being
medieval. It seems that while there is a preference, modern
archivists are less than categorical about these things.
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