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The passage is from The Library by Andrew Pettegree
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=hHE0EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT192&dq="bequest+for+a+library+also+became+snarled+in"&hl=ko&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGx4uo3qWJAxWSja8BHbOOKnAQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q="bequest for a library also became snarled in"&f=false
His(William Smarte’s) bequest for a library also became snarled in legal issues and competing claims for the books and manuscripts, a contest won by the University of Cambridge. So it was only with the arrival of Samuel Ward as town preacher that the library became reality. Ipswich, the birthplace of Cardinal Wolsey, who for over a decade was the influential first minister to King Henry VIII, was already in a highly privileged position with a distinguished grammar school. The council minute ordering Ward and his colleagues to ‘make view in the hospital for some convenient rooms there for the placing of a library’ comes at the end of a discussion of scholarships for local boys to attend Cambridge under the terms of the contested Smarte bequest.
I have two questions for this tricky passage, especially for the underlined part.
First, are “legal issues” and “competing claims for” objects for the previous ‘in’?
(Am I right?)
Last, then are “legal issues” and “competing claims for” two continuous actions in one event or two individual events of William Smarte’s bequest for a library? I mean which of the two following options is right as follows: ①He became snarled in legal issues and he became snarled in competing claims for the books and manuscripts or ②he became snarled in legal issues and (as a part of legal action) he became snarled in competing claims for the books and manuscripts.
Thanks a lot.
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=hHE0EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT192&dq="bequest+for+a+library+also+became+snarled+in"&hl=ko&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGx4uo3qWJAxWSja8BHbOOKnAQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q="bequest for a library also became snarled in"&f=false
His(William Smarte’s) bequest for a library also became snarled in legal issues and competing claims for the books and manuscripts, a contest won by the University of Cambridge. So it was only with the arrival of Samuel Ward as town preacher that the library became reality. Ipswich, the birthplace of Cardinal Wolsey, who for over a decade was the influential first minister to King Henry VIII, was already in a highly privileged position with a distinguished grammar school. The council minute ordering Ward and his colleagues to ‘make view in the hospital for some convenient rooms there for the placing of a library’ comes at the end of a discussion of scholarships for local boys to attend Cambridge under the terms of the contested Smarte bequest.
I have two questions for this tricky passage, especially for the underlined part.
First, are “legal issues” and “competing claims for” objects for the previous ‘in’?
(Am I right?)
Last, then are “legal issues” and “competing claims for” two continuous actions in one event or two individual events of William Smarte’s bequest for a library? I mean which of the two following options is right as follows: ①He became snarled in legal issues and he became snarled in competing claims for the books and manuscripts or ②he became snarled in legal issues and (as a part of legal action) he became snarled in competing claims for the books and manuscripts.
Thanks a lot.
