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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