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 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.

A WORK NOT ONLY USEFUL TO REMIND THE LEARNED, BUT ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR YOUNG STUDENTS, AND- OTHERS, WHO HAVE OCCASION TO CONSULT OLD CHARTERS, DEEDS, OR RECORDS.

By ANDREW WRIGHT,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE.

TENTH EDITION,

CORRECTED AND ENLARGED, WITH SEVEN NEW PLATES,

CHARLES TRICE MARTIN, B.A., F.S.A.,

LATE ASSISTANT-KEEPER OP THE PUBLIC RECORDS.

LONDON:

STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE,

Law Publishers

1912.