instruct and persue [PURSUE] deeds of notoriety

Ik heb het vermoeden dat de tekst een slechte vertaling is van *notariële akte* = *acte notarié* = a deed signed in front of a Notary Public

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notoriety = beruchtheid
If someone or something achieves NOTORIETY, they become well-known for something bad. Example: He achieved notoriety as chief counsel to President Nixon in the Watergate brake in.

notorious = berucht, ongunstig bekend, notoir
Someone or something that is notorious is well-know for something bad.
Example: West Berlin has long been notorious for its street violence.

notorious criminals = notoire misdadigers


Claim: Typhoid Mary caused the deaths of thousands of people.

Status: False.

Origins: The public memory of persons renowned for DEEDS OF NOTORIETY seems to place no boundaries on the exaggeration of their infamous acts. Just as the body counts attributed to many celebrated outlaws of the Wild West far exceed the realities of their careers and the number of banks robbed by Willie Sutton grows with every passing year, so does the popular image of a woman now known to history as "Typhoid Mary" present her as a malevolent figure who willfully infected a populace with a dread disease with deadly results.
Mary has come to be so strongly identified with the spread of disease that it is now commonly believed she was responsible for hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths. We think of her as stalking the streets of turn-of-the-century New York, infecting all those she came into contact with, cutting a path of deadly pestilence, with bodies falling in her wake. Yet the truth is this cook was responsible for only thirty-three cases of typhoid fever and only three deaths. She was a villain (albeit a passive one), but not the heartless dealer of death we now remember her as. And she might not even have been all that deliberately villainous.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/typhoid.htm