Handwriting, legal writing, shorthand, and ciphers; paleography of Elizabethan England
The Secretary Alphabet model from BAILDON (John) & BEAUCHESNE (Jean de), A booke containing diverse sortes of hands, 1571.
Taken from the website Penna Volans containing links to several centuries of European handwriting manuals.
William Hill’s Commonplace Book [early 17th century]. Found in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Jane Segar’s ‘Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibylls’