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To: SunkenCiv

That’s messy? I don’t think they know what that word means.


6 posted on 12/03/2019 9:43:32 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

My thoughts exactly!!


7 posted on 12/03/2019 10:26:53 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Vermont Lt; SunkenCiv
***...Elizabeth's late hand, which was, to put it mildly, idiosyncratic. The higher you are in the social hierarchy of Tudor England, the messier you can let your handwriting become. For the queen, comprehension is somebody else's problem
That’s messy? I don’t think they know what that word means***

I agree. Having read a goodly share of contemporary documents, especially in parish registers, I find the handwriting rather disciplined. The only thing that draws my notice is that the pages have lined margins and the scribe overran them at times - for whatever reason.

9 posted on 12/03/2019 11:04:02 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Vermont Lt

“The corrections made to the translation are a match for Elizabeth’s late hand, which was, to put it mildly, idiosyncratic....”

I think the image in the thread is the stuff written by the scribe - yes, very nice!

Hmm. So the Queen was like Travon’s friend. Could write cursive, but couldn’t read it!


11 posted on 12/03/2019 3:05:33 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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