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What should you charge?
Bring us any business or project question. Suppose you want to take a service into a new market. Which competitors’ offers match yours, and what are buyers actually paying?
We can compare those offers with evidence of what buyers paid, check your cost assumptions and explain where the sources disagree. You get a decision brief or custom business plan with ranked pricing options, links to the evidence and a short list of assumptions to test.
Our free illustrated book, William Marshal: The Price of a Promise, shows that method at work on a different question. Two names in a medieval charter tell us who chose the site of an abbey. A missing year tells us where the evidence runs out.
233 pages · US Letter · 93 MB
The evidence in the book
Who chose the site?
William promised the land. When King John approved his will, the charter named Countess Isabel and the steward Geoffrey fitz Robert to choose the site. The document gives 3 December. Its editors flag the year as uncertain, so the book says “probably in 1200.” You can check both decisions in the same record.
Follow citation A2J
- Open the prologue on page 8. Select A2J at the end of the paragraph about Isabel and Geoffrey.
- Read the note on page 194. Its “original-charter record” link opens the Magna Carta Project’s transcription and English summary.
- Check the charter. Find both names in the English summary. The text gives 3 December. The editors mark the year as uncertain, which is why the book says “probably in 1200.”
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