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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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| Preface to the Ninth Edition | vii |
| Preface to the Tenth Edition | viii |
| Preface to the First Edition | ix |
| Preface to the Fourth Edition | xiii |
| Preface to the Fifth Edition | xiii |
| Extract from a Return of Thos. Astle, Keeper of the Records in the Tower | xiv |
| Extract from a Return of John Oaley, Keeper of the Records in the Augmentation Office | xv |
| Explanation of Contractions used in printing Records | xvii |
| Plate | I. | Court-Hand Alphabet. | |
| II. | Court-Hand Alphabet. | ||
| III. | Set Chancery Hand, with Specimen, temp. Jac. I | ||
| IV. | Chancery Hand. Small Court-Hand. | ||
| V. | Contractions of the Court-Hand. | ||
| VI. | Contractions of the Court-Hand—continued. | ||
| VII. | Alphabetical Contractions of the Court-Hand. | ||
| VIII. | Christian Names contracted. | ||
| IX. | Christian Names—continued. Set Court-Hand. | ||
| X. | Words commonly contracted in Old Charters. | ||
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| XII. | |||
| XIII. | |||
| XIV. | |||
| XV. | Specimen of a Hand used in the reigns of Henry IV. and Henry V. | ||
| XVI. | The Counties of England and Wales. | ||
| XVII. | The Bishops of England. | ||
| XVIII. | A General Alphabet of the Old Law Hands. | ||
| XIX. | A General Alphabet—continued. Specimens. | ||
| XX. | Running Court-Hand. Hand used in Queen Elizabeth's reign. Set Hand formerly used in the Common Pleas. | ||
[Plate XXI.
