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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 3363415, member: 83956&quot;]I did some paleography in graduate school and have Preston and Yeandle&#039;s ENGLISH HANDWRITING 1400-1650. This looks to me to be a 16th-century hand, maybe ca. 1525. But I sound more authoritative than I have a right to be. With that date, the ms. is in Early Modern English, though having some Middle English helps in transcribing. &quot;Old English,&quot; to specialists, refers to Anglo-Saxon.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with transcribing and translating these mss. is, of course, the hand is difficult, and indentures involve legal discourse and abbreviations that challenge even paleographers who don&#039;t specialize in these kinds of documents.</p><p><br /></p><p>With all that having been said, I&#039;d like to give maybe 5-10 lines a go for free, but I&#039;d need a better photo. I can turn it, but I need the vellum flattened out so I could read all letterforms.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will PM you my email address. Perhaps you can send me the &quot;Edinburge&quot; page with the signature. But honesty, I don&#039;t think I will do much good with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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