Eve, I agree it's Cocke, but the point I was making was that where there are queries about a transcription, it helps to see more of the hand than just a line or two. Seeing other words with the same letters, or comparing similar letters in different words, makes solving problems much easier. In the present case, where the secretary hand C looks very like a more modern Y, having a larger sample of the hand might well have introduced more upper and lower case Cs for people to compare, in words which were very obvious. This would enable people not so familiar with this type of script (which is very clear, I agree) to get more of an idea of what the letter is likely to be. Lyn B

Lyn, I agree. A larger extract would have been more helpful - although it might seem obvious, as you say, to some of us, this was a very ornate example of the "hot cross bun", i.e. capital C. Best regards, Martyn Lyn Boothman <annys@boothman27.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: Eve, I agree it's Cocke, but the point I was making was that where there are queries about a transcription, it helps to see more of the hand than just a line or two. Seeing other words with the same letters, or comparing similar letters in different words, makes solving problems much easier. In the present case, where the secretary hand C looks very like a more modern Y, having a larger sample of the hand might well have introduced more upper and lower case Cs for people to compare, in words which were very obvious. This would enable people not so familiar with this type of script (which is very clear, I agree) to get more of an idea of what the letter is likely to be. Lyn B ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== THREADED archives for OLD-ENGLISH: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH