Developments in English documentary script between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, illustrated from three collections:

documents in the National Archives, digitized by the Anglo-American Legal Tradition
York Archbishops’ Registers, digitized by Archbishops’ Registers Revealed
Durham Priory Registers, digitized by Durham Priory Library Recreated

Early, Anglicana and mixed hands

1200s

Assize Roll

1230s

Memoranda Roll

Pipe Roll

1240s

Memoranda Roll, 1239/40

Pipe Roll, 1240/1

Feet of Fine, 1240

1250s

Memoranda Roll

Pipe Roll

Feet of Fine, 1251

1260s

Memoranda Roll

Pipe Roll

Feet of Fine, 1261

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1266

1270s

Memoranda Roll

Pipe Roll

Feet of Fine, 1273

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1274

1280s

Feet of Fine, 1281

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1286

1290s

Feet of Fine, 1293

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1293

1300s

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1303

1310s

Durham Priory Register, c. 1312

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1312

1320s

Durham Priory Register, c. 1322

Feet of Fine, 1327

1330s

Feet of Fine, 1331

Durham Priory Register, c. 1332

Feet of Fine, 1338

1340s

Memoranda Roll

Pipe Roll

Durham Priory Register, c. 1342

Feet of Fine, 1349

1350s

Memoranda Roll

Durham Priory Register, c. 1352

1360s

Memoranda Roll

Durham Priory Register, c. 1362

1370s

Feet of Fine, 1374

1380s

Feet of Fine, 1380/1

Feet of Fine, 1388/9

Chancery Proceeding, 1388x96 (C1/1/1)

Chancery Proceeding, 1388x96 (C1/1/3)

1390s

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1392 Feet of Fine, 1396/7

1400s

Memoranda Roll, 1404/5

Durham Priory Register, c. 1402

1410s

Memoranda Roll, 1414/15

Feet of Fine, 1409/10)

1420s

Feet of Fine, 1422/3

Chancery Proceeding, 1426x1432 (C1/8/5)

Chancery Proceeding, 1426x1432 (C1/8/10)

Memoranda Roll, 1428/9

Durham Priory Register, c. 1421

1430s

Memoranda Roll, 1435/6

Pipe Roll

Durham Priory Register, c. 1431

1440s

Feet of Fine, 1445/6

Memoranda Roll, 1445/6

1450s

Chancery Proceeding, 1452/3

Memoranda Roll, 1455/6

1460s

Feet of Fine, 1461/2

Chancery Proceeding, 1460x1465

1470s

Memoranda Roll

Pipe Roll

Chancery Proceeding, 1473x1475

Durham Priory Register, c. 1478

1480s

Feet of Fine, 1485/6

Secretary hands

1380s

Chancery Proceeding, 1388x96 (C1/1/9)

1400s

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1401

1410s

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1415

1420s

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1426

1430s

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1434

1440s

Durham Priory Register, c. 1442

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1444

1450s

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1450

Chancery Proceeding, 1452/3

Durham Priory Register, c. 1457

1460s

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1463

1470s

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1477

Duchy of Lancaster records, 1478

1480s

Archbishop’s Register, c. 1481

1490s

Duchy of Lancaster records, 1494