Having been brought up on medieval latin documents I know....
Those must have been chewy. Vellum, anyone? BJH

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A search on the web under stilyard or a stillyard shows this 
identification is almost certainly right and that identifiction of its 
variants in inventories has been a recurring question. Having been 
brought up on medieval latin documents I know that one of the chief 
skills in searching dictionaries for arcahaic words is guessing likely 
variant spellings.


paul