There is a contraction mark over at least 2 of the words 'than' in clipping 6.
Which reads as though it is 'then' in context, but if it's a contraction............
Do you know what the whole word would be HD or Bookbox?
These are the kind of semi-spurious contraction marks sometimes seen in these documents, where the contraction isn't obvious or necessary.
I agree
than is written and
then is the meaning. I would transcribe as you have done.
The alternative is to force something like
than(ne).
Note that in the first line of #5 he writes
whan with a mark and in the first line of #6 the same word twice without the mark. All mean
when.
Some small enhancements to goldie's text:
...withoute the v yat(es) of Norwich... [It's the -es brevigraph, therefore plural.]
Same line:
...come thydre... [Words reversed in the transcript.]
...curteis... [There's a line across the fifth letter.]
...dey or he come... [I agree with the transcript, but I'm sure
or is to be read as
ere = before]
...Cecile my dought(er)... [possibly
Cecilie, but unlikely, comparing the final
e to that in
age in the line above.]
