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[–] 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So they did know who he was and what he did.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago

    Yes but only because of a guy in 1910s who looked into it

    The identity of Henry Symeonis was only (re-)discovered in 1912 by the then Keeper of the University Archives, Reginald Lane Poole. In an article for the English Historical Review, he looked at the curious statute and tried to get to the bottom of the Henry Symeonis mystery.

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