Paleographical Challenge #23

February 28, 2020

By Kathryn James

For today’s challenge: Which signature is authentic?  

For bonus points: who created the (less) authentic signature?

For smarty pants points: who created the (more) authentic?

Today’s puzzle is pictured above for the Paleographical Challenge. Suggested solution to yesterday’s challenge:

To our trusty and welbeloued John Forstire 
esquier master of or great wardrope in
London or his deputy or deputyes there

Catalogued as: Document, signed by Elizabeth I, to John Fortesque, Greenwich.  May 12, 1566.  Osborn Manuscript File 4898