Court-hand restored, or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc., neatly engraved on twenty-three copper plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations. With an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames; and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers and other ancient writings, but not in any modern dictionaries / by Andrew Wright.

  • Wright, Andrew, of the Inner Temple.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Court-hand restored, or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc., neatly engraved on twenty-three copper plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations. With an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames; and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers and other ancient writings, but not in any modern dictionaries / by Andrew Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Explanation of the Contractions used in Printing the Records and Manuscripts copied in the Worhs printed under the direction of the Commissioners of Public Records. (Statutes of the Realm, Vol. I. p. Ixiii.) With respect to the Printed Contractions, it is to be observed, that wherever the Manuscript is abbreviated, the Print has a Mark of Contraction, as similar to that of the Manuscript as the types will admit. The different Manuscripts vary a little from each other in the mode of making the several Contractions. The following- Explanation of the Marks of Contraction used in the Print, may serve as well to render the Printed Copy intelligible, as also to explain the Contractions in the Manuscripts, and to make the reading and consulting of them, when necessary, more easy to Persons not used to Ancient Records. A Straigttt Line over a VoiceJ denotes fJic omission of flie Letter m or ji follou ing. antiq'^ - avaiidiz comun - hoin no qua stati vointatiT' antiquam avaiiuditz eommun homiuum non quam stati m vohmtatem The Sfraif/Iif Line over m in the middle of a Word denotes the omission of the Letter m or TxfoUou-ing. oiiies ----- omnes omia omnia A Croolied Line over some Letter, or a Line througli some Letter, of the Word con- traeted, denotes tlie omission o f one or more Letters of tlie Word. Battis^ coronacois Ballivis coronaeionis CO, to - I cio or tio 1 cion or tion diet dictum, &c. Dfis - Dominus E{3is - - - Episcopis expeditaco exjieditacio Gfa - - . Gratia heat - - - liabeat litjtates libertates malicose maliciose not) - - - nobis oius [or ots] - omnes Satt - Sahitem A small Superior Letter denotes an omission of which sueh Letter forms a part. imprisonetur occasione primis prius nisi imp'sonet^' occ'^one p'mis - pi^ - n' qm s' quam sibi