The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing . to JJein8 Chap. V. OF WRITING. 143, of King Richard II. to that of King Henry VIII. as given in the twenty-fifth plate, are compofed partly of characters called Set Chancery avid Com-mon Chancery, and of fome of the letters called Court-hand 1 which threedifferent fpecies of writing are partly from the Roman, and partly from- ^ftfrmcta/the modviii Gothic. See the alphabets
The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing . to JJein8 Chap. V. OF WRITING. 143, of King Richard II. to that of King Henry VIII. as given in the twenty-fifth plate, are compofed partly of characters called Set Chancery avid Com-mon Chancery, and of fome of the letters called Court-hand 1 which threedifferent fpecies of writing are partly from the Roman, and partly from- ^ftfrmcta/the modviii Gothic. See the alphabets in the twenty-fixth The /Chancery lettersfo called, were ufed for all Records which pafled the greatfeal, and for other proceedings in Chancery ; and the Court-hand letterswere ufed in the courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas for fines, re^~coverbs, placita, adjudicata, &c. The fpecimen in the twenty fifth plate of the 35th of King Henry taken from an original letter of that King in the Authors library, which,is written in the running hand of that time. Although the writing called the Law Engli/h, is a fpecies of ModernGothic, we fhali mention it in this place, becaufe the inftruments writtenby t
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