During my recent participation in the Folger Institute's Teaching Paleography course at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., I found my understanding of Dr. Burges' Plague Water expanding through access to sources discovered in the Library's holdings. One of these was a manuscript attributed to Mary Lyford (1636-), which has not yet been digitised, call number V.a.675. Given the extent to which the texts I study so frequently comment upon one another, it is alw

To round out my study of English paleography, I attended the Teaching Paleography course held at the Folger Shakespeare Library by the Folger Institute. While this was likely the last formal course I will attend in this area as part of my Postdoctoral Fellowship, my own study of paleography will be one of continuing education and ongoing practice. With Heather Wolfe leading the course, participants from a range of backgrounds and disciplines gathered to devise a took kit for