Berkshire Will of 1560

[toby webb]

Wonderful. Many thanks. I am learning something. How about this. The second highlighted word is in actual fact the next line. Toby.

[Bookbox]

sycke (= sick)

It's a 'long s' at the beginning.

The letter that looks like r is actually c.

I'll try to find you an alphabet to work from.

[Bookbox]

This one might be close enough, but if I can find a better one I'll post it ...

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/doc7_popup/alphabet.htm

[toby webb]

Thanks. 'Sick' makes sense but the words of the first phrase are quite possibly not common words and so are more difficult. The alphabet is helpful but nowhere do I see anything remotely like  Robert Hornblowe of Hurst, Berkshire which was the title of the will. More homework required. T

[horselydown86]

The line before (with the section in the red boxes) is:

...Horneblowe of the p(ar)ishe of hurst...

hurst is the word immediately to the left of the second red box.

In relation to the word p(ar)ishe, the descender of the p is crossed over itself.

This indicates letters have been omitted, usually -er or (as in this case) -ar.

[Bookbox]

To add a note to HD’s explanation above ...

In handwriting of this period, the letter h has a long looped descender, making it look more like a g or y. This is what you see at the beginning of hurst. Relatively little of the letter is above the line, unless it’s joined to a preceding long s, as in p(ar)ishe.

This sort of hand is not easy reading if you're new to it, but recognising the letters does come with practice, and if you need more help I’m sure people will oblige.

[toby webb]

Thanks Bookbox & horselydown86. Getting like a tutorial and I am starting to look at things differently. The lack of capital letters in so many cases makes things more difficult.
Line 6 in this will contains many repeated letters but even then the most I have got out has been
 "afforesaid" & "and". Pretty pathetic really so would be pleased for more help.
Thanks, Toby.

[Bookbox]

... w(i)thin the Church yerde of hurst aforsaid It(e)m I geve and ...

[goldie61]

Just to say, you are allowed to post SECTIONS of a document on here - don't think you are restricted to  just the odd line. Just not supposed to post the  whole document, (though that has been done sometimes! although the moderators might remove it as it breaches copyright.)
If you want to post a 'chunk' to get into the swing of it, there will be people who can transcribe this. As Bookbox says, once you get to recognise the letters, this handwriting you have here is not too difficult.