A most breefe, easie and plaine receite for faire writing Wherin the author being well acquainted with the causes, which in these daies hinders it, hath for the good of his cuntrie, so distinguished and broken euery perticular letter for the true making thereof, and so perfectly and plainely shewed the ready way of true ioyning the same. Both for the roman and secretary handes, as any one of ordinarye yeres and capacity, not hindring any other busines, may at his idle times by his own priuate practise, in short time attaine to write, to serue very good vses either in office or otherwise. Panke, William. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A08893 of text S110196 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 19172.3). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 21 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 8 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A08893 STC 19172.3 ESTC S110196 99845790 99845790 10711 2240893590

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A08893) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 10711) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 382:02) A most breefe, easie and plaine receite for faire writing Wherin the author being well acquainted with the causes, which in these daies hinders it, hath for the good of his cuntrie, so distinguished and broken euery perticular letter for the true making thereof, and so perfectly and plainely shewed the ready way of true ioyning the same. Both for the roman and secretary handes, as any one of ordinarye yeres and capacity, not hindring any other busines, may at his idle times by his own priuate practise, in short time attaine to write, to serue very good vses either in office or otherwise. Panke, William. [16] p. Printed by E[dward] A[llde] for Iohn Perin, and are to be solde in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Angell, At London : [1591] "To the reader" signed and dated: Vltimo Septembris. 1591. W. Panke. Printer's name from STC. Signatures: A. With spaces left for examples to be added by hand (filled in in only copy known). The last leaf is blank. Identified as STC 19172+ on UMI microfilm. Reproduction of a photostat of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. eng Penmanship -- Early works to 1800. eebo A most breefe, easie and plaine receite for faire writing. Wherin the author being well acquainted with the causes, which in these daies hinders it, h Panke, William 1591 15 3298 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2010-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2010-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2010-04 Sampled and proofread 2010-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2011-06 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

A Most breefe , easie and plaine receite for faire writing .

Wherin the Author being well acquainted with the causes , which in these daies hinders it , hath for the good of his Cuntrie , so distinguished and broken euery perticular letter for the true making thereof , and so perfectly and plainely shewed the ready way of true ioyning the same .

Both for the Roman and Secretary handes , as any one of ordinarye yeres and capacity , not hindring any other busines , may at his idle times by his own priuate practise , in short time attaine to write , to serue very good vses either in office or otherwise .

AT LONDON Printed by E. A. for Iohn Perin , and are to be solde in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Angell .

To the right Worshipfull my singuler good Maister , M. Thomas Powle Esquire , one of the sixe Clarkes of her Maiesties most honourable Courte of Chauncery . W. P. wisheth all happines with increase of spirituall blessinges in the greatest measure .

RIght worshipfull I haue here vndertaken a woorke , how profitable , I referre to the euent . And for that I had no better meanes then this to manifest my duetie I haue presumed to make your W. the patrone of my trauell : wherein if you shal be pleased to allow me your ordinarie fauour , it will be of force sufficient not onelye to defend me from the greatest aduersarie , but also to arme and encourage me to a worke of better effect . Thus as I haue presumed to commit vnto your W. this my first croppe , so will I in my best exercises commend all your actions to be gouerned by the Lord .

Your W. most bounden seruant in the highest degree of his duetie . W. Pank .
To the Reader .

GEntle Reader , in respect that many would willinglye attayne the perfection of writing , and cannot , either for that their abiding is too farre off , or helde backe by occasion of busines or otherwise ( which is most like , Such as teach by great . ) that some newlye sprong in that knowledge , haue rated it so high as the greater sort that would , cannot , by reason of the price , and other better able for the same cause will not . This Author hath deuised such plain , easie , & exact , rules for faire writing , Though they neuer handled pen . as any one of ordinary yeeres and capacitie , ( much more they of greater iudgement ) not subiect to impediment , may in a short space , at idle times not hindring their other busines , and by their owne priuate practice attain , to write both the secretary , and roman hand , to serue very good vses either in office or otherwise .

And to the end , that he would auoide all occasions that might hinder his honest meaning in this his profitable woorke : he promiseth to such as shall buye his booke , that whatsoeuer either in the same , or otherwise belonging to writing shall seeme hard , that he will gratis shew it them by woord of mouth , if they repaire vnto him . Vltimo Septembris . 1591.

Quod ignoras , ne doceas . W. Panke .
First I haue thought good to begin with the breaking of euery perticular letter .

FOr your _____ the plainest and easiest waye is that you make the first parte round thus _____ ( for to make it otherwise will seeme hard to a learner ) then , from the vttermost parte therof , towards your right hand , make a small stroke thus _____ which doone , set on your pen where you fastned your last stroak , and from thence draw down a straight stroake no lower then your firste compasse thus . _____

your _____ is thus made . First make a slope stroak thus _____ at the vpper end wherof set your pen , and turning it ouer a little towardes your lefte hand thus _____ bring it straight downe so far as your lyne that you writ vpon thus _____ which doone , set your pen a little behinde the end therof thus _____ and bringing it straight forward thus _____ then turne it vp round in this manner _____

Your _____ is easily made with a straight stroake thus _____ which done , set your pen on the toppe of it , and with the edge as small as you can drawe a stroke from your right hand forward , halfe so long as your first straight stroke thus _____

Your _____ is made with the halfe of the first parte of your _____ thus _____ which done , make a straight slope stroake ioyning to the highest parte of your former compasse thus _____ and so at once close him round , so as it may still kéep his compasse as an _____ thus _____

For your _____ make your first parte of the _____ thus _____ which done , ioyne to the head of it another like compasse , halfe as big as the first thus _____

For your _____ the plainest and easiest way for a learner , is to make it as you made the first part of your _____ thus _____ and then strike the same stroake somewhat longer thus _____

Your _____ is made with the first stroke of your _____ thus _____ turned round at the foot iust as high as the first stroak thus _____ which done , set your pen where you last tooke it off , and drawing it downe as lowe as the head of your _____ is long thus _____ turn it quickly with the edge of your pen towardes your lefte hand thus _____ and close it at the head in the same manner and with the same stroake as you made your _____ thus _____

Your _____ is made with the first part of your _____ thus _____ which done , set your pen in the lowest part of it , and with the edge of your pen make a very small stroke , and carrie it slope a little way thus _____ which done , turne it round thus _____ and in the turning it from the end of the compasse , drawe a slope stroke towards your left hand néere the length of the body thus _____ then set your pen at the end therof and turne it vp round lightlye towardes the bellye with a reasonable compasse thus _____

Your _____ is easily made , for it is simply the firste parte of your _____ or the last stroke of your _____

Your _____ is made with the first parte of your _____ thus _____ with the same foot that your _____ is before it is turnde round thus _____ then make a small compas which is the eye , as neere the middest as you can thus _____ and in the middest iust between the eye and the foote make a stroke through thus _____

Your _____ is likewise easily made , for it is onelye the first part of your _____ thus _____

Your _____ is made with the first part of your _____ thus _____ then set your pen at the foote of the same stroke and carrie vp your hand a slope from the foot to the head with the edge of your pen thus _____ then from the toppe of the same stroke bring downe such another stroke as your firste and no lower , thus _____ then from the foote of the second straight stroake , carrie vp another slope stroake as you did before : and so from the head of that slope stroake bring downe a third straight stroake thus _____ and your _____ is made .

Your _____ I néed not stand vpon , for it is the two first straight strokes of your _____ thus _____

Your _____ is simple the first part of your _____ thus _____

Your _____ is made with the first part of your _____ or _____ sauing that it must be somewhat slope towardes the right hand , and turning backe a very little towards the lefte hand thus _____ then at the foote therof and a little behinde it set your pen and make the same compasse as you did to the belly of your _____ thus _____ then setting your pen where you tooke it of last and make a straight stroke as low as the first part of your _____ is long , thus _____

Your _____ is simplie your _____ sauing that you must bring down the first stroke of your _____ as far below the proportion of your _____ as your _____ is long , thus _____

Your _____ is easily made also , for if you mark it it is but the firste parte of your _____ thus _____ then setting your pen iust in the middest of the lowest flat stroke thus _____ carry vp your hand directlye as high and no higher then your first stroke , and withall with the edge of your pen at the top of the same stroke , strike the like small stroke as you did to the head of your _____ thus _____

Your _____ which we call the long _____ is best made as you make your _____ ( till you be more perfect ) except that the lowest parte of the head must be somwhat further off from the body of it thus _____

Your _____ which we call the round or little _____ is easiest made with your _____ thus _____ at the highest part wherof toward your right hand set your pen and drawe a little slope stroake thus _____ which turned backeward a verye little towardes the lefte hand makes your _____

Your _____ is a straight full stroake , sauing that the toppe of it is somewhat slope thus _____ and the stroke thorough the same must you make no néerer nor higher from the foot of it then that between the same stroke and the foot you may easily make an _____ thus _____

Your _____ is alredy shewed you , for it is the first whole parte of your _____ thus _____

Your _____ is likewise your _____ sauing that the last part is your single _____ or the head of your _____ thus _____

Your _____ is made with a slope stroke thus _____ turned vp round from the foot to the head thus _____ then setting your pen where you last took it off , compasse it round to your right hand thus _____

your _____ is very easie , for it is but the first part of your _____ thus _____ with the taile of your _____ ioyned to it thus . _____

NOw that I haue shewed you the breaking and making of euery perticular letter in the crosse rowe , it is as necessary to shewe you how to ioyne and set them in their order .

Firste you must speciallye marke how many of your letters haue whites or compasses .

And euery one of them in wordes as they fall out , must you as néere as you can make of like bignes , as for example _____ and your blackes which is al the strokes in euery letter also : must be of like fulnes as néere as you can : yet for your _____ and _____ it is tollerable that you make them fuller then the rest .

All the letters in the crosse row excepting _____ are to be ioyned to the foote of them thus _____

There is no other letters to be ioyned but these that follow , and they must be ioyned thus _____ all the rest must stand as close as they that ioyne , as thus _____ &c. sauing the _____ which you may ioyne thus _____

Must you ioyne all your letters alike as _____ and as you thus ioyne your _____ to euery of these perticular letters , so must you doo also all your other letters , excepting _____ which you may closely set by thus _____

All your letters must stand close _____ not ioyning to the belly , as _____ &c. I set no more examples for that these letters are in effect the beginnings to all the rest of the letters in the crosse row .

It is sufficient that you set the vsuall letters that followes it in this manner _____ for you shal neuer haue any other letter follow _____ besides _____

You must set euery letter that followes it , as néere to the bodye of it , as the rest of your letters stand one from another thus _____ you must set all the letters thus _____

FOr the setting of your woordes , the distance of them is vsuallye knowne : viz. betwéene euerye woord the space of an _____ and as you keepe equall distance betwéene your woordes , the like care must you haue for your letters , that they stand not one wider or closer , or one higher or lower then another .

For the Roman hand .
The Distinguishing of Letters .

TO learne to make your letters spéedily .

First especiallye marke how many letters are made after one fashion , by noting whereof you shall very easilye attaine to the making of al your letters , as for example . Make the halfe of a compasse somewhat longer then your secretary _____ thus _____ which makes the _____

The next is a slope stroke towardes your left hand thus _____ which is the first part of your _____ whereby you shall make your _____

The next is this little stroke somewhat slope , and a little longer then your secretary _____ thus _____ which is a letter of it selfe called _____ whereby you make _____ and by drawing it somewhat longer thus _____ makes your _____ with the first stroke of your _____ turned backward thus _____

The little _____ hauing their proportion of themselues . I will shew how to make them afterward in the true making of letters .

Now that I haue thus distinguished euery letter , I will likewise shew you how euery letter is made by himselfe .

The making of the Letters .

THe _____ is made with his first compas as before thus _____ which done , set your pen on the highest parte thereof where you firste began it , and from thence draw downe a stroke like vnto your _____ as lowe and no lower then your first compas thus _____

The _____ is made with the firste stroke as before thus _____ which done , set your pen iust aboue the foot as high as you meane to make the rest of your letters in deapth thus _____ and so carrying it round as I shewed you in the head of your _____ close him iust in the foot as round as you can thus _____

The _____ is simplie your first part of your _____ thus _____ sauing that at the head you must make it somewhat full thus _____

The _____ is also your _____ and till you grow somewhat perfect , when you should make a _____ make an _____ and then to the highest corner ioyne cleanly the first part of your _____ thus _____

The _____ is also your _____ turned in a little at the head thus _____

The _____ is also the first part of your _____ being iust in the middest turned backward like the foote of your _____ thus _____

The _____ is also your _____ being brought downe a little way with a slope stroke thus _____ then carrye your pen with a small stroke somewhat compasse toward your left hand thus _____ and from thence carry him with another slope stroake back towardes your right hand and vp to the head of your _____ thus _____

The _____ is made as your _____ sauing that you must leaue it open onely at the foot thus _____

The _____ is made before _____

The _____ is made with the first stroke of your _____ thus _____ then as high from the foote of the stroke as the top of the bellye of your _____ or _____ make a little eye thus _____ at the lowest end whereof set your pen and make a slope stroke no lower then the foote of the first stroke thus _____

The _____ is onely the first part of your _____ thus _____

The _____ and _____ is thus made , first with your then from the middest thereof make a small slope stroke with the edge of your pen as high & no higher then your first stroke thus _____ that done , set your pen at the top of that last small stroke and make another little stroke as your first no lower then the same , nor wider nor closer at head then at foot thus _____ and so for the third stroke doo in all respectes as you did for the second thus _____

The _____ is easily made for it is but the first part of your _____ turned round to the head thus _____

The _____ is onely the latter halfe of your _____ thus _____ with the belly of your _____ thus _____

The _____ is onlye your _____ sauing that your must make the last part of it somewhat longer thus _____

The _____ is onely the first part of your _____ thus _____

The little _____ hath his proportion of himselfe and the easiest way for a learner is to make a litle compasse thus small _____ and so to make the like backeward ioyning to the bottom of the first thus _____

The _____ is simplie your _____ sauing that it must be a little longer vpward thus _____

The single _____ is but two strokes like your _____ ioyned together at the foote , and one no higher nor lower then another nor wider at head then at foote thus _____

This _____ is also a single _____ and it is thus made . First make such a stroke as this _____ then set your pen at the ende thereof , and with the edge of your pen make a slope stroke vp towards your left hand thus _____ and so at once carry it compasse vp as high and no higher then your first stroke thus _____

The _____ is onely two of those compasses ioyned together thus _____

The _____ is made with the head of your _____ thus _____ and the first part of your _____ thus _____ ioyned together _____

TOuching the ioyning of this hand , I take it , that there is no necessitie therein , for it is most vsually written vnioyned & commendable . Therfore in my opinion when you haue attained the perfection of the letter , if you will obserue but a reasonable distance in the setting of your letters & likewise in your words you shal finde it more easie and best . For ioyning of the letters wil be ( in a learner ) a cause of close writing , which in a Roman hand is not tollerable .

FINIS .