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Secretary hand
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<p>Secretary hand or script is a style of European <a href="/facts/Hand_(handwriting)/S9W0DHlo">handwriting</a> developed in the early sixteenth century that remained common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for writing <a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English</a>, <a href="/facts/German_language/oWaQIDA8">German</a>, <a href="/facts/Welsh_language/4Pz8r6yk">Welsh</a> and <a href="/facts/Goidelic_languages/gJPUYXlc">Gaelic</a>. </p>