[Sca-cooks] QUESTION ABOUT PRIMARY SOURCES

[johnna holloway]

I suspect that this has to do with date of
first publication which might well be 1705.
The records were recorded in 1502 but not published
until two centuries later.

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae

Seton1355 at aol.com wrote:
> I think I know the answer to this, but am checking to make sure...>
> I was reading history about Tudor England. It listed a heralds report from
> 1715 about the death of Arthur  as a primary source.  But how could it be
> *primary* if the herald wasn't there in 1502 when Arthur died?>
> So a primary source is an account of something  that you are eye witness to??
> > Phillipa