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What does Staff / Staffs mean?

Staffordshire

Staffordshire: a county name that stays abbreviated in transcriptions

CommonUnit 13

You’ll find it in registers, wills, court records and deeds.

In practice lines

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Create a free Leo accountTaught in unit 13. Standard members get the whole course.

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Model letters: R. B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography (1927); Jean de Beauchesne & John Baildon, A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands (1570 and 1581); Giovambattista Palatino, Libro nel qual s’insegna a scrivere (1550); and manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library; all public domain. They stand in until Leo’s own model letters are drawn. Secretary letters typeset in Joscelyn by Peter S. Baker (SIL Open Font License).