[Bob Ireland]

***...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.

[SunkenCiv]

I wholeheartedly agree. It's no more messy than any other handwritten draft of pretty much anything, not even considering the length of the work.