Excerpt from 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 IrelandSeven Plates, executed by the Photolithographic process, have been added to the present Edition. They have been selected, not for the purpose of exhibiting curiosities or extraordinary specimens of Caligraphy, but as examples of the ordinary handwritings which the Student of Records will be likely to meet with in his researches. The first Plate contains a fac simile of a Saxon Charter, the most ancient class of legal deed which the country possesses; of Domesday Book; and of the two oldest Pipe Rolls of the Exchequer. The four following Plates exhibit Specimens of Records of. Various kinds belonging to the four Courts of Chancery, Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, from the end of the twelfth century to the beginning of the seventeenth. On the last two Plates will be found ex tracts from a Court Roll and of Accounts of various kinds and dates.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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