Thursday, December 1, 2011

Practice your ability to read old handwriting

A simple starter - click on the image to get a larger version. It is a receipt from 1782 and records the payment for some land in Bendish, a hamlet in St Pauls Walden. To see a transcript click here. All four people named in the document have been identified.

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