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This free-flowing (cursive) script is known as Tudor Secretary Hand. It was designed to be written at speed without the pen leaving the page between letters. Its use faded out in the mid-1600s. You can make out the words Liber (book) at the start of the last two sentences. Even so the tudor Secretary Hand had elaborate fonts for the capital letter (next slide)
Fonts on next page.

A translation shows it is like a repetitive doodle
Henry VIII wrote this book against the Lutherans/ the book of Henry VIII against the Lutherans/ he wrote the great book in opposition to the church in contradiction according to church law and preaching scripture/ the book concerning the receipt of a pension/ the book of King Henry VIII against the Lutherans