The key to the family deed chest. How to decipher and study old documents: being a guide to the reading of ancient manuscripts. - Cope, Emma Elizabeth Thoyts; Martin, Charles Trice (E. Stock, 1893)
Hints to the beginner.--Character by handwriting.--Saxon, Norman-French and law Latin.--Old deeds.--Law technicalities.--Manor and court rolls.--Monastic charters.--Parish registers.--Parish officers and their account books.--Books on paleography.--Old letters.--Abbreviations, etc.
Keywords: Diplomatics.; Paleography / Handbooks, manuals, etc.