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.

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[a_cubed]

The lack of crossing on the "t"s is terrible. I can see it begins "The {something beginning with S} having met and carefully considered their accounts", but then it gets into closely written lines with the "g" from having being completely in the line. Yuck!

[vivdunstan]

It's making some 1500s documents I've got to decipher look easy ...