# Talk:William Paynel

here and here and here and here (PhD thesis) and here -- Ealdgyth (talk) 23:01, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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Reviewer: Serial Number 54129 (talk · contribs) 15:09, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

"I've been waiting for you, Billy Ray"  :)  great-granddaddy, etc., of one of these scroats I believe...  SN54129 15:09, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
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Earwig brings up noth9ng, neither does Google more generally.
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Usual suggestions. Ready to promote anyway.

Might be worth linking Anglo-Norman.
Also Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Normandy.
"when it was seized by" -- suggest "captured", avoid repeating "seized".
"of Stephen's reign from 1135 to 1154" -- I think you could lose the "from *1135" as it's implicit on Stephen's claiming the throne...up to you though.
You link Drax, but Drax Priory has an article too, if you want it. SN54129 15:47, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
I think I got all these. I have realized I need to make charts to figure out who in all these noble families I've done and who still needs doing... Ealdgyth (talk) 19:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
Good work! Passing.  SN54129 19:55, 9 March 2022 (UTC)