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John Rykener, also known as Eleanor, [note 1] was a 14th-century sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with John Britby, in London's Cheapside, while wearing female attire. Although historians tentatively link Rykener, who was male, to a prisoner of the same name, the only known facts of Rykener's life come from an ...
John Rykener, also known as Eleanor (fl. 1394), was a 14th-century transvestite sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with another man, John Britby, in London's Cheapside. Although historians tentatively link Rykener to a prisoner of the same name, the only known facts of his life come from interrogation made by the ...
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At present this sentence reads: "Little is known of John Rykener the person, and all that is comes from his answers to his interrogators", needs redrafting. The first clause is unnecessary since the second covers it, but you need to expand a little, to explain the "interrogators" of whom this is the first mention in the main text.
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Rykener is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: John/Eleanor Rykener , 14th-century transvestite or transgender sex worker