Glasgow Burgh Court Tutorial: Case 2 - Take the Test

Background Information

In this second case from the minute book of Glasgow Burgh Justice of the Peace Court, the same fairly neat hand continues with good line spacing, but, again, some care is required, especially with regard to the letter w and also to descending letters.

The writer uses at least two types of w. One is the common Secretary Hand type and can be seen in the word weaver in line 2. The second is a curly w and can be seen in the word persewar in line 5. This second type of w- the curly form - is easily confused with the double-l, such as that used in the word bill in line 1.

In the test, most of the standard phrases of the court and all of the abbreviated words have been transcribed for you, but there is more to do than in the last test.

Reproduced with permission of Glasgow City Council, Mitchell Library (Mitchell Library reference B3/2).

Take the Test

The document has been divided into 2 sections. Read the section shown in the image and transcribe the word you think is missing from the text below by typing in the appropriate blank space. The text will be red as you type and will turn black when you have transcribed the word correctly.