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From: "Polly Rubery" <>
Subject: [OEL] Fw: Help with a 1598 Leicestershire will
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:19:19 +0100


Opps should have sent this to the List as well!
Polly

Hi Judith and Martyn

The name cannot be Brinton or Britton as there is definitely not an r as a
second letter - this is either an n (unlikely) or a u. The rs are
consistent throughout this document as the distinctive secretary hand r
somewhat like a small w.

I think it is this letter which is mixed up with the downstroke of the s in
the line above, hence my suggestion of Burton.

The "line joining the two ts" is actually the line coming away from the
second part of the r as it goes to the t, and then the stoke away from the
t. It is not a line drawn straight through. At this time the cross of the
t is not usually a separate stroke, but a continuation of the letter itself.
See the double tt in "wyttnesses" at the foot of the will.
Polly

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