Secretary hand

"The secretarie Alphabete": an abecedarium showing the forms of the letters used in secretary hand, from a penmanship book by Jehan de Beau-Chesne and John Baildon, 1570.
Covenant bond from 1623 written in Latin and English

Secretary hand or script is a style of European handwriting developed in the early sixteenth century that remained common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for writing English, German, Welsh and Gaelic.[1]

  1. ^ Scottish handwriting: Secretary hand: one hour basic tutorial.