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Library book returned almost millennium late

LIBRARIANS in Crawley got the shock of their lives yesterday when an overdue book was returned to the town’s library – over 900 years after it was borrowed. The first edition copy of the Domesday Book was taken out of the library in November 1086 by Silas Glass on a two week loan. But it was never returned and was assumed to be lost. However, it re-appeared 936 years later in a box of junk owned by Frank Glass, a 42nd generation descendent of Tyler’s. The book, by William the Conqueror, was published in 1086 and became an instant best seller, despite 95% of the population being illiterate at the time. “I was going through some of my late dad’s stuff in the garage when I came across the book,”…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, December/Januuary 2024

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