Court-Hand Restored, Or the Student's Assistant in Reading Old Deeds, Charters, Records, Etc
Author | : Andrew Wright |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2017-10-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 1528224698 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781528224697 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Download or read book Court-Hand Restored, Or the Student's Assistant in Reading Old Deeds, Charters, Records, Etc written by Andrew Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from 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 In order to attain this end, and to avoid the prolixity and inconvenience that must attend the giving separate Tables or Plates-for the Contractions of each particular Hand, I have pitched upon the court-hand and its Contractions, as the best and most difficult of the Old law-hands a perfect knowledge of which will, with a little application, soon gain, absolute dominion over the rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.