1821

[vivdunstan]

Just encountered this example of appalling handwriting from an era when it's usually very clear to read. This is from Hawick parish kirk session minutes for 1821. Luckily the person who wrote this only writes a few pages. But still mega ouch. This is remarkably bad for this period. Incredibly poorly defined letters.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Good Lord, I'm glad I don't have to transcribe that!

[vivdunstan]

Transcribing would be easier than what I'm trying to do, which is just skip through looking for key names etc! At least with transcribing I can almost read it ok, if I take a big run at it. But it's far more work than I should have to do for a quick skim of content. And normally this era is nicely written.