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Re: Link: Resources for Reading 16th to 19th Centuary Handwriting
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 08 October 14 10:07 BST (UK) »
Found an archive copy that seems to work, if anyone finds a new live website let me know.

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Re: Link: Resources for Reading 16th to 19th Centuary Handwriting
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 08 October 14 16:24 BST (UK) »
The Wayback Machine! Brilliant, sarah...hadn't thought of it :P Thanks!

Strange but it doesn't seem to work more than once from the link. If you are having the same problem, bookmark the link first time there and use the bookmark to access the page subsequently.

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Re: Link: Resources for Reading 16th to 19th Centuary Handwriting
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 09 October 14 18:20 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the tip
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Re: Link: Resources for Reading 16th to 19th Century Handwriting
« Reply #21 on: Friday 22 April 16 15:21 BST (UK) »
cool!

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Re: Link: Resources for Reading 16th to 19th Century Handwriting
« Reply #22 on: Monday 08 April 19 13:14 BST (UK) »
I don't think anyone has linked to this

Johnson and Jenkinson, English Court Hand, A.D. 1066 to 1500.

https://archive.org/details/englishcourthand01john/page/n6
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Re: Link: Resources for Reading 16th to 19th Century Handwriting
« Reply #23 on: Monday 21 October 19 15:38 BST (UK) »
I don't know if anyone has linked to this, but I found the following link extremely useful when I couldn't figure out certain words on some 17th century wills - the best example for me being "a moiety", which I was consistently transcribing as "moistly" and completely changing the context of the sentence in the process :-)

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fordingtondorset/genealogy/Files/Glossary.html

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Re: Link: Resources for Reading 16th to 19th Century Handwriting
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 22 October 19 13:46 BST (UK) »
Some years ago I was able to help a lady on this site who was having difficulty with a 16th century Lincolnshire sheep farmer
"s inventory. The word causing difficulty was hoggett. This was causing confusion, a hoggett is a lamb from the previous season and not a piglet.
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Re: Link: Resources for Reading 16th to 19th Century Handwriting
« Reply #25 on: Friday 12 June 20 08:00 BST (UK) »
this is just a test post

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Re: Link: Resources for Reading 16th to 19th Century Handwriting
« Reply #26 on: Saturday 27 November 21 13:27 GMT (UK) »
Anderson - Leics., Yorks.; Attwood - Worcs., Staffs.,  Salop; Baylis - Worcs.; Beach/Bache - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Bills - Devon, Worcs.<br />Dovey - Worcs., Staff., Salop; Gill - Worcs.; Hampton - Worcs., Staffs.; Hancox/Hancocks - Worcs., Staffs.<br />Hill - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Sherwood - Worcs., Staffs.; Stonyer - Worcs., Staff., Salop, Essex<br />Woodall - Worcs., Staffs.; Potter - Essex.
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