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GM Gregory Topov wrote on Wed, Dec 15, 2004 10:43 PM UTC:
In response to Mr. Charles Gilman: It has to be admitted that the historical assertions that attribute the name Stanley to William the Conqueror's pet monkey are controversial, and may yet be refuted by subsequent scholarship. The claim is a radical one, but it appears to be corroborated by the evidence from the recently discovered ship logs which recount William's arrival in Pevensy Bay on August 28, 1066. Unfortunately these logs are still pending verification by the archival departments of the British Museum and the Royal Historical Society, and have not yet been released for public scrutiny. For now at any rate, the obvious explanation appears to be the best one, despite no earlier documentated instances of the Stanley name.