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| As this is a less formal script, the letter forms are somewhat variable, particularly in relation to common letters like e and a, but you get the general idea. | |
| Writ of 1234 (British Library, add. charter 28402). Images from The New Palaeographical Society 1980, PLate 150. | |
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