I’d love to find more evidence of them as an early modern Scots epistolary practice. I’m incorporating this into my PhD thesis. Thank you for sharing this, I very much appreciate your help. If you come across others I’d love to know.

Yes, I’m very interested in them from a Scots perspective. Marie Stewart, countess of Mar used them-although born in France she moved to Scotland aged 11 & wrote her letters in Scots. Her children also used them & I’ve found a couple of other Scottish non-kin writers who also used them.

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Wow! Beautiful! Thank you, this is brilliant!

A line-filler! So it’s definitely multi purpose! This is similar to Queen Anna’s letter yeah? But then Henri also used it nearer his signature.

Thanks Michael 😍

Here is Heather Wolfe's article in which she discusses Queen Anne of Denmark's use of the fermesse in her letter to Buckingham: www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Here are two on either side of a hexagram

Thank you so much @samklai.bsky.social for pointing out to me what looks like a fermesse (a closed-S, signifying affection and fidelity) underneath “Dear Buss” on this letter. What do you think Alice Thornton’s Books?

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