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| The Contents of a Library: St Nicholas Chapel, Kings Lynn, Norfolk |
Palaeography, the study and transcription of sixteenth
and seventeenth century handwriting known as Secretary Hand is a branch of
Linguistics rather than History according to Library Cataloguing. The subject is one taught at the University
of Essex as one of four modules contributing towards a ‘Certificate in Local
History’.
The example above is taken from “Extracts from the
Church Wardens’ Accounts of St Nicholas Chapel, Kings Lynn from the year 1616
to the Restoration of His most Sacred Majesty King Charles the Second (1926)”.
The book was one from our surplus stock which was offered
and sent to the Norfolk Record Office for accession.
Should I attempt a transcription, or leave this as a teaser
for our readers to solve?
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