13thC 'Ipswich Man' featured on BBC in 2010; grew up in N. Africa+bone report notes 1 of 9 African ppl in this cem! http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1922-1/dissemination/pdf/Reports_SiteSpecific/IAS5003_skels_revised_2009.pdf …
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A 1259 writ of Henry III concerning 'an Ethiopian of the name of Bartholomew' in England: http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/h3v5/body/Henry3vol5page0028.pdf …pic.twitter.com/o0jaORnl4I
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A man named Mahumet (Muhammad) living & duelling in mid-twelfth-century Wiltshire, 1160–65: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/prosopon/issue11-1.pdf …pic.twitter.com/Lt7pX6Z0Bl
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Mahumet's duel was w/ John de Merleberge=Marlborough, Wiltshire; fwiw, a Theobald, son of Mahumet, is also recorded from E13thC Hampshire...
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Another Mahomet (Muhammad) recorded 1327, when Edward III issued him+6 others a pardon at Newton-on-Ouse, Yorks, for 'offenses in Ireland'
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Re: these names, worth noting again al-Idrisi's knowledge of southern+eastern Britain & dinars in L11/12thC England:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/719248330472230913 …
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Al-Idrisi in 12thC on Hastings: 'a town of large extent+many inhabitants, flourishing+handsome, having markets, workpeople & rich merchants'
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Abu'l-Fida on Britain from his E14thC Geography, based on 13thC work of Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi (trans. Dunlop, 1957)pic.twitter.com/yngi0Nwf5h
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Harun ibn Yahya, a late 9th-century traveller, on Britain; account preserved by Ibn Rustah: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html …pic.twitter.com/Ig41PQ25uX
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So they did a sort of background check, or at least had a question-and-answer session? Being Christian not that reassuring!
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I assume it's some kind of port control, but is rather unclear!
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