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unidentified (scribe e) Contributed by Peikola
Sample(s):
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ecca1296 Sample of the Scribal Hand of unidentified (scribe e)

Description:
Overview Editor
In RH's & MP's batch this non-professional secretary-influenced hand occurs only in two related depositions, one written in defence of Mary Easty and Sarah Cloyce (ecca1296), the other of Mary Easty (ecca1289). The names of the defendants and some personal pronouns notwithstanding, the wording of the two documents is identical. The erasure of "tham" (corrected to "hure") and "thare" (corrected to "that hure") in ecca1289 suggests that it was copied from ecca1296 and the scribe first accidentally produced the plural forms of the pronouns. The scribe’s comment "this is a truee cope" in ecca1296 and the appearance of John and Mary Arnold's 'signatures' in the main hand of the deposition could mean that there once existed an original version with the marks of John and Mary Arnold (cf. ecca1289). Another possibility is that this hand belongs to John Arnold who also signed the document for his wife. Peikola

2 Manuscripts With This Hand:
ID Title Hand Amount Editor
No. 552Statement of Thomas & Elizabeth Fosse for Mary Esty1 ###Peikola
No. 602Statements of John & Mary Arnold for Mary Esty & Sarah Cloyce1 ###Peikola
(?) in the ID column indicates some uncertainty that this actually is this scribe.
* in the Hand column indicates signature on manuscript



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