A Popular Subject more closely considered.
LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK,
62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
A KEY TO THE FAMILY DEED-CHEST.
How to Decipher and Study Old Documents
Third Edition, Revised. Enlarged and Illustrated.
By E. E. Thoyts. Art cloth, 5/- net.
Some of the difficulties which beset any one who studies such documents for the first time, unless he be an expert, are the deciphering of the ancient and unfamiliar style of writing; the peculiar abbreviations and signs which were used by our forefathers; the quaint phrases and expressions and obsolete words occurring; the arbitrary and old-fashioned spelling, which to the uninitiated are always vexatious. It is to enable the more or less experienced student to meet and cope with these and similar difficulties that this work has been compiled, by one who has had considerable experience in research.