Is the child called Richard? 1626 BAPTISM.

[WideEyedGirl]

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I have this baptism that I've just come across - for a child of William Milner/Millner. The baptism is at Rotherham Minster in Yorkshire, 17 Sep 1626. The transcription (on FindMyPast) says that the child's name is 'Richard', but I can't make out Richard at all! (Maybe I'm just not used to old writing!).

Can the rootschat community make out Richard for the name of the child?

As always, your help is really appreciated.
Holly

[Little Nell]

Yes, definitely Richard.

Nell

[Treetotal]

Yes I see Richard too.
Carol

[WideEyedGirl]

Thank you for the quick responses Nell and Carol.
The more I look at it, the more I see Richard, but I still can't make out the 'ch' in  the middle of the name yet - saying that, I'm not used to looking at records this old

[Little Nell]

The c looks more like a straight line and the h has a curl that down below the line.

It takes some getting used to.  Sometimes looking at the whole word and what it might or ought to be in the general context is better than looking at individual letters.  That leads to crossed-eyes 

Nell

[goldie61]

Just to reiterate what the others have said - it is Richard.

The third letter that looks like an 'r' to us, is how they wrote 'c', and the long curly letter below the line is how an 'h' was written - sometimes with no ascender as we would expect, as in this case. Then an 'a', then the letter we would see as a 'w' is in fact how an 'r' was written, then the 'd' is very badly formed in this case.
Just got to forget everything you ever knew as 'English', and look at it as if it was a foreign language! 

[WideEyedGirl]

Thank you Nell and Goldie61, think I better get some practicing in! 

[jess5athome]

Just to reiterate what the others have said - it is Richard.

The third letter that looks like an 'r' to us, is how they wrote 'c', and the long curly letter below the line is how an 'h' was written - sometimes with no ascender as we would expect, as in this case. Then an 'a', then the letter we would see as a 'w' is in fact how an 'r' was written, then the 'd' is very badly formed in this case.
Just got to forget everything you ever knew as 'English', and look at it as if it was a foreign language! 

Now I see it, thank you very much for that 

Frank.